This past week finished up Season 14 in the Get Messy Art Journal Community*. Get Messy Art Journal is an art journaling program that is a school, art playground, and…
Get Messy Art Journal: Season of Contrast
Women I’m Learning From
I’ve been thinking about my influences lately. I started in 2013 with a simple plan to make space for learning and growing as an artist. Along the way I’ve been…
Another Show Update
As I’ve been thinking through how the pieces for my show will work together I decided that they were too big at 12×18″. Envisioning how to edit and present them…
Being a Mom while Being an Artist
This is the last in a series of topics that came from my discussions with The Council of Arty Cleverness. This one was Sharyn’s idea. First of all, I just…
My Upcoming Show: Conversational Sexism
When I started talking with the gallery manager at Lowe Mill last fall about my show, I originally thought I’d do more canvas works in my Modern Icon series since…
How Do I Decide My Work is Finished?
Over the next few Thursdays I’ll be talking about topics that came out of a discussion I had with The Council of Arty Cleverness. They suggested some blog topics and…
Emotional Weight
Last week I started the #100dayproject on Instagram to spur me into working on the pieces for my show. (You can see my work at #100DaysOfArtShowPrep.) It was a big…
When What You Planned isn’t Working
Over the next few Thursdays I’ll be talking about topics that came out of a discussion I had with The Council of Arty Cleverness. They suggested some blog topics and…
Magic Eye
Over the next few Thursdays I’ll be talking about topics that came out of a discussion I had with The Council of Arty Cleverness. They suggested some blog topics and…
A List of Things to Do When Your Muse is on Vacation
I’m a firm believer in showing up and doing the work even when the Muse is on vacay but I also get that there are days when you just aren’t…
A few notes on fear
How did I get here? To this place of wanting to do something and feeling as if I don’t have the skills. How did I get here? In the gap,…
Take January
You may remember in November that we had a hot water tank leak here at the Granade Casa. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas we went back and forth with our insurance…
2016 Goal Recap
It’s that time of year when I revisit what I’ve accomplished in the past 365 days. Goal setting is something I started four years ago when I began my “Make Something…
In Process
How’s your December to-do list? If it’s like mine it is bonkers straight on down to ridiculous. In addition to all of the usual holiday shenanigans, we also had a…
Get Messy Creative Team 2017
Remember last week when I talked about disappointment? So what I couldn’t tell you was that I had good news to share as well. It’s official as of Monday, I…