Tell and Show
Tara Choate While my sabbatical, and the events leading up to it, have dominated the blog for the last few months, I’ve been getting in some painting time. Additionally, other artistic projects…
Painting
Detox
I’ve been thinking about detoxification a lot this week. detoxification (noun) Biochemistry. the metabolic process by which toxins are changed into less toxic or more readily excretable substances. The act…
Lesley Humphrey Workshop
Before getting started on this write-up, let me just explain this point: I will not be posting anything that Lesley Humphrey did in the workshop. For one thing, that work…
And I rode an alligator home
Months ago, I saw that one of my favorite artists, Lesley Humphrey, was doing a workshop January 15-17, 2024, down near her home in Texas. The instant signups became available,…
Monomaniacal
When I was a kid, no one could get me to read a book or draw something unless it was about horses. I had a huge Breyer horse collection. My…
Three clues
I’ll give you three guesses to my state of mind. Here they are. There’s a Cat on My Faberge I’m still in a bit of painting funk. I want to…
Childish… and orange
When I was a kid, my dad would bring home tins of watercolor paint at the end of the school year (he was a middle school industrial arts teacher.) You…
Re-learning play
In his book “Creativity“, John Cleese posits the importance of play as a creative element. I’ve heard other creatives express some version of the sentiment, usually coupled with a variation…
Layers
This weekend I pulled out my sumi ink and pastels to do some exercises as learned by the fabulous Dawn Emerson. I have been thinking a lot about how representational…