My Brand, My Movies

So last night we watch Rob Roy, a wonderfully-set, large-screen movie with big name stars just eking “Scottish.” It succeeds at the box office in 1996, if $28-31.6 million is any standard. A 1995 American biographical historical drama, the film was directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Liam Neeson stars as Rob Roy MacGregor, an 18th-century Scottish […]

Stealing Art, A Gentleman’s Crime

And Big Words like ‘Provenance’ I find it all kinds of fun to follow art thefts. I began doing this while I lived in Germany in the seventies and eighties, even being offered a job by one of the art retrieval outfits. I liked the TV series “To Catch a Thief.” I’m really fascinated by […]

Bits of History Now

My 2020 in some ways just began, but with all that’s going on, that’s easy to understand. Focusing on writing is saving me during this pandemic. I’ve just finished writing the Prequel, Inheritance Spurned, to my Highland-Cape-Fear-Conspiracy Thriller Series–and Stone of Her Destiny, Book I, many of you have bought from Amazon or Kobo. I […]

Setting My Best Beret Forward

Already Thinking New Year? Yes, if you’re anything like me.

“Motions,” Art Show at Campbell House

My New Show at Campbell House in Southern Pines, NC Reception Friday, October 4, 4-6pm I’m keen on nostalgia. Keen, but not sentimental. My nostalgia has a Cutting Edge. You might wonder what in the world that means. I’ll try to answer. It means things have halos around them. Like people, they have ‘their day,’ […]

Writing as an Indie Author

New Books Brewing Just when you get used to life as it is, changes occur. A friend moves away. Your massage therapist loses her place of operation. Nothing like it, I’d say. Well, I’m changing, too. Thanks to my web SEO, you’ve a new surprise waiting for you at the website bearing my name. A […]

Paint-Through

The Winning Attitude Paint-through, a new term that I think I’ve created is cannibalized from the book marketing sector to apply to painting. Besides being a writer, I’m an art teacher of 30-some years. Writing webinars that tell you about click-through and read-through referring to number of one-author books a reader reads through prompted the […]

FIGURE PAINTING PRESENCE

“Executive Shoe Shine”–Clin-ton Two days ago I finished a new full sheet watercolor painting! Plus, I’m getting another watercolor, “Grooves,” ready to show in West Jefferson, with the Watercolor Society of North Carolina in their upcoming October annual juried art show, but more about that, later. In answer to a long-term friend, Rebecca Graham’s question upon seeing my […]

McKETHAN WATERCOLOR “CRAB ART-ATTACK” CLAIMS NEW HOME

Swirls of blue, orange, yellow and red make an exciting focal point for the eye. Crabs say “beach” and “childhood memories.” And Pat Smith, formerly of Texas which state also claims the blue-shelled crab regaled me with tales of how they caught their crabs on lines. Pat hales from Texas, Virginia, Boston, Connecticut, and now […]

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