Throughout the creative journey, our authenticity as artists is routinely tested, but never so much as when we’re approaching the end of a difficult painting that has taken us much longer than we ever anticipated & we just want to be done! Yet...
It’s a brand-new year & I have discovered a brand-new medium. Actually, it is a very old medium, but it’s brand-new to me! And the story of this “discovery” is such a classic example of how following my nose & trusting my instincts have rewarded me...
In a couple of recent blogs, we explored the practice of copying as an integral part of the artist’s apprenticeship & we did this in two different contexts. On one hand, art students copy the drawings & paintings of the Old & Modern Masters as a...
Last month Tom & I drove up to Milwaukee for the annual Bead & Button Show, billed as the “biggest consumer bead show in the world.” For 13 days, an astounding number of jewelry-making classes are on offer, ranging from light-hearted, 3-hour “make &...
Have you ever stood in front of the easel…the cutting board…the lathe; sat in front of the word processor…the lined notepad…the typewriter, or kneeled in front of a flowerbed & longed to really step out, break the mold, do something completely,...
When I asked my web designer a few months ago if it would be possible to add a “blog” category to the navigation bar of my new website, I really didn’t have any specifics in mind about the kind of blog it would be. “Some sort of art blog” was as far as I...
