What I expect from 2021
2020 has been hard. There may be nothing else we agree on, but on this point point, I think all humans are in agreement. In the United States, the election…
Tara Choate Should I invest?
This has not suddenly become a financial website. I’m just pondering buying a real set of acrylics. I’ve been painting (mostly) in watercolor since 2006. I’ve done a few acrylic…
The gift of a failed painting
I am going to make a bold claim. Artists don’t know what they are doing. Every artist starts out with a basic idea that can be summed up as, “Let’s…
The myth of the palette
This may be a bold post. It may be a controversial post. It may even be heretical. Brace yourself. Palettes are stupid. *** Forgive me a history lesson. When, as…
You expected me to work?
As I mentioned in my last post, this weekend the kittens arrived home. Frankly, I’m surprised I got anything else done. As you can hear in the background, Key was…
Passive Aggressive Painting
I have this weird theory that probably won’t make sense. My theory is that to get me to do something (at least painting-wise), I must be allowed to do the…
Timely Tara Tells Tantalizing Tales
It’s my story that the last two weeks of not posting or doing art have not been my fault. And I’m gonna stick to it. The last few posts at…
Getting my act together
Let’s face it. This month has not gone according to plan. I started out thinking I would work on the Cheltenham Gold Cup painting I mentioned here. Then I got…
The evolution of a painting
One of the things I find fascinating about painting intuitively, as opposed to with a plan, is that the initial plan evolves (devolves?) drastically. Take “Barometer Drop.” I first posted…