Risk it all!
Tara Choate Many of you (hopefully) got my newsletter (if not, the sign up is right over the side.) I only put it out once a month, but I enjoy the feeling…
Painting
Tsunami survivor
I have said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: Art is time-consuming. I’ve spent most of the day (and the weekend, for that matter) slogging through the various…
It was an accident
With this new COVID variant, I’m back to staying home. Not that I ever left. It’s just that for the first time I feel like I’m getting cabin fever. It…
Out with the old…
The last half of December always feels like a march through a marshmallow. I’m going along, trying to get things done, and then something sparkly or sweet comes along. Days…
A new thing called “subtle”
This week was busy (I had to work five whole days! It was awful!) and I was tired at the end of it. My list of goals was small, which…
Important
“We must paint only what is important to us, must not respond to outside demands. They do not know what they want, or what we have to give.” – Robert…
pareidolia
pareidolia: the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines. pareidolia: the human tendency to find patterns in experiences…
A Different Sort of Art
I am the (volunteer) webmaster for the Watercolor Society of Oregon. It’s not a big deal, except when it is. And the last couple of years, with the increased demands…
Home again, Jiggity Jig
Tonight will be a short post because I’m tired and I don’t have a lot to say. Obviously, we are all home again from our time at the beach house.…