Tara Choate Paint Squirrel
I start out painting. Then something happens and I’m going down other trails. It’s all loosely related, but it sometimes feels like I am just wandering around. Over the last…
Don’t listen to the H.I.C.
The studio has felt like a production shop the last few weeks. As I mentioned in my last post, the Art on the Edge tour finished, the Pacific Artists Co-op…
Thud
That sound you heard over the weekend was my heart hitting the floor. The Art on the Edge Studio Tour, which I had spent so much time preparing for, was…
Obviously, what we need is MORE paintings
In the process of doing my inventory over the last couple of months (267 paintings and counting) it has been possible to identify the items that I would move like…
Titled
I’ve been waiting a long time (5.5 years, to be precise) to report this: Key got his NW3 Elite title on Monday! For those whose lives don’t revolve around their…
Repullulate
Repullulate (noun): to bud or sprout again It is times like this that I wish I had a fabulous story about why I haven’t posted and what I’ve been doing.…
Pencil Polka
Sketching is like dancing. It’s process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting…
Imbrication
Imbrication (noun): Overlapping and forming a regular pattern; an overlapping of edges (as of tiles or scales). This week I have found myself drawn back into the black and white…
Subsequently
Sometimes I sit down to write and I have this big idea, but I can’t figure out how to describe it. That’s where I’m at today. So, rather than fight,…