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…
Tara Choate 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…
Random Interests
In the interest of getting a post out, this is going to be a random post. How can it be November and just a week or so to Thanksgiving? I…
Art Withdrawal Therapy – Phase 1: Apply Paint
Coming back to real life after my exciting PARIS! trip took a couple of weeks. Last weekend I finished up my planned blog posts and looked around. “I guess I…
(Not) Paris! (Part 5)
In addition to being a working member of society (stop laughing), I am also a pet owner. A trip like Paris! doesn’t just happen. Time off needs to be requested,…