The past few years I’ve been at the tail end of perimenopause. Hopefully will go into full menopause ANY DAY NOW PLEASE. It really is like going through puberty, so many changes, in every aspect of my life. I saw the video below on TikTok and really loved it. IFfirmations! In the Find Your Joy class I am taking, the […]
Self esteem and @tiktoktraumadoc “Iffirmations”
The art I’d like to make and what is in the way
If I imagine the art I would like to make in the future, I see large, haunting paintings, with rich colors, representational, but also odd, distorted and strange. But not creepy, just psychological. Symbolic. People see different things in them. They are layers, with some texture, but refined. They look like they took skill and people who look at them […]
Thoughts about Seth Godin on CreateLive
I’m taking an art course called Find Your Joy taught by artist Louise Fletcher. I’m just in the first week. She posted an interview with Seth Godin and much of it is about fear (embedded below). He also recommends that people blog every day. So I’m doing that, badly, but I just want to get into the habit of it. […]
Sketchbook fun!
I am taking a course called Free Up Your Sketchbook, and it is a lot of fun, very freeing. I am exploring abstraction more deliberately than I have done in the past. I do prefer representational work, but I really have been struggling with what imagery I want to work with, so, none for now. Instead I will loosen up […]
Well that sucked.
I have been trying to get back into art. I also tried to quit at completely. I lived in a limbo for many years, not making art and not being able to stop expecting myself to make it. I finally got the advice I needed, mentioned in an early episode of the Art Juice podcast. Basically the advice was to […]