This blog post, though meant for younger artists, struck a cord. In short it says to find artists you envy and try to make art like them, but in your own way, until find your own style. And then, after you’ve found your voice, you really just start to imitate yourself.  I love how this reframes envy. It gives me […]

I love children’s book illustrations. When my kids were little and I still read to them, I would stare at the illustrations while reading the nearly memorized lines.   I loved creating these small intimate paintings. They look like characters from a storybook. Grand and ridiculous.  I’m leaving a hint of a landscape in the background. I hope it adds […]

This is probably a bad idea, but I decided to challenge myself to make something, anything, each day for 30 days. Today was Day One. It might be Day Only.  I have not really made any art since last February. I do some artwork as part of my teaching, but it is not my work, my deeper self expression. Although […]

When you have hundreds of pieces of art, and only two walls to fill, how do you decide what to present? What if your favorite pieces are not that interesting to others? Worse, what if your favorite pieces are weird or disturbing to many? Should you pick the pieces that will sell? Or the ones that most define who you are as an artist, and what you are interested in?

My mother told me that her grandmother’s final words were, “it’s all downhill from here!” Her meaning was ambiguous – downhill hill as in it’s all going to shit? Or, having reached the pinnacle, things were finally going to be easier? The past year or so, full of triumphs and accomplishments, has also been very hard, when I expected it […]