"Created from driftwood collected over time, mixed with carved toys I made for my son with my grandfather’s tools, I feel like a kid having fun again.”

Leith MacDonald spent six summers and a winter working on Monhegan. Years after moving off the island, Monhegan has resurfaced like a great whale in Leith’s art making practice. In "Little Maine Sculptures" from PechaKucha Night Monhegan Vol. 1, MacDonald explains how these pieces are inspired by years of memories and dreams of a place with which long ago he fell in love.

This was "PechaKucha of the Day" on Thursday, November 12th, 2015. 

Dmitri Koustov talks about his paintings and sculptures

Timothy Roepe is a painter who's art is rooted in painting directly from nature. He explores what it is to paint from nature, and how he derives his abstract works from what he sees in the world. 

Eric Dever explores his journey through light and color, starting with white, then black, then adding red and exploring what mixing them does to the art. He realizes that working with color is directly like working with light, and explores what playing with light does to art.

After false starts at business school, seminary, and the restaurant business, Steve Haweeli found his calling as an abstract painter at 54. Here, he desscribes his life before his art, and how he got into the PR business.

Bonnie Cazier talks of her journey of drawing and painting horses, cowboys, landscapes to painting the abstract.

Art can lead all over the place. It has led painter Tessa Heck from the rural to the urban (and back again), from the noncommercial to the monetary, from introspection to examination. Sometimes art is a journey and, as Tessa's story shows, sometimes that journey leads home. And sometimes it's a journey walked in red cowboy boots. 

Greg Pritchett, a watercolorist, shows and explains the creative process and his evolution, journey, and inspiration.

Morgan Dyer discusses Art & Color.