Anticipating that this blog post would be my fiftieth, I recently printed out all of the previous ones & read them through. I placed them in categories as though they were in the chapters of a book & I wondered if, beyond the obvious one, there...
As soon as I entered the classroom on my very first day of graduate school, the professor pointed out two columns on the blackboard, one labeled Student, the other Teacher. He then asked me to write a word under each heading that represented my...
Last night was the artist reception for a group of students from the gallery where I teach on Saturdays. It was held at the Hanover Park (Illinois) Village Hall where, for the last 6 years, our students have been invited to exhibit their work during the summer...
It was around this time last year that my web-designer & I were putting the finishing touches on LindasFineArtsStudio.com, the cyber-showcase & e-storefront for my paintings & drawings. It had been an exciting, albeit daunting, project that I’d been...
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...
I often tell my brand-new students at the beginning of their first lesson: “In the next 2 hours, I will teach you all you need to know about drawing; after that, everything else will just be practice.” Am I being facetious? Yes, perhaps a bit, but not as much as one...
