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…
Tara Choate 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…
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…