2024 Goals (Part 2)
“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon “When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.” ~ Neil Gaiman…
Tara Choate 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,…
2024 Goals (Part 1)
I have been dreading writing this post all day. It’s kind of amazing how many things I have done to procrastinate it. I had all but decided on a strategy,…
2023 Goals – Recap
Regardless of my ponderings of 2023 being a year that seems to beg for futuristic technology, I feel like I spent the year fighting the most basic of battles. It…
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…