Oh guys, I’m writing this bit from March 1, 2024 .. below is what I wrote on New Year’s Day. I couldn’t publish it then, it was all too much. Things feel a little better now. I feel awfully vulnerable sharing this but also saying things out loud makes them easier and I could use…
The Cataloging of a Decade
I started drawing late in life. It wasn’t a gentle easing into creation that spanned my youth, it was swift and absolute and unexpected. September of 2012 was the first wee hint. November is when I mark the anniversary, it’s the date of the first picture in my first sketch book – the “First Floral”…
Fear and Confidence
Many years ago I bought my eldest tickets to see Hugh Jackman in Indianapolis, it was a birthday gift, or a graduation gift… I don’t remember. She expressed to me her mixed feelings about the tickets. We aren’t concert goers. We don’t do big events with parking and seating and logistical complexities very often. They…
2022 – What I learned
Happy New Year, my friends! This annual exercise of reviewing and recapping my year is, more and more, a challenge for me. Time feels untethered since the start of the pandemic, and I feel untethered with it. Sometimes I feel I should just get over it and get back to it, back to a kind…
Drawing … a retrospective?
Oh that title is intense! This is not a retrospective – but maybe it is step one to a retrospective … It’s been a full ten years since I discovered drawing and I realize, this morning, how very lucky I am to have this anniversary in my head. So many artists have always been artists…
Packing a Painting – How I do.
I sold a painting!! Oh man, that’s so fun. A kind of validation I don’t live for but it’s a really lovely feeling. I thought I’d do a post about how I pack paintings. It’s a nice reference to have for potential buyers and, frankly, I was hesitant to sell paintings because I wasn’t quite…
Color Me 2022 is ALIVE!
Good morning all my beautiful people! It’s been a long time coming and things around here have been hopping … but Color Me 2022 is now available for pre-order! I’m doing a limited run as I really REALLY don’t love keeping a stock of things in my house, so orders will be open only until…
Hellraiser Lampshade – A Spooky Journey
First of all, I love the shit out of this shade. The design has always been stellar and really, this is just well executed mimicry – which I’m pretty darned good at. The real artistry here, for me, was the India Ink color wash and the damned tenacity. It took time … LOTS of time….
Ebony – A Journey
Begun 01/03/2022 – Finished 09/05/2022 It all started with another large canvas, and a penchant for peachy pinks – which is not particularly normal for me. The whole goal was to use these stencils, which I’d snagged off Amazon for a bunch of nothing just to see where they could take me. I had some…
Lampshade #2 – A Journey
I’m back with another lampshade!! So the first lampshade went really well and I’d gotten my hands on these lovely bell shades at goodwill for $3 a pop and wanted to try my hand. These shades are all fabric, no ‘plastic-ish’ lining to work with so I was unsure how it would go. It…