Processing my discouragement with my art practice over the past year. What’s changed and how I’m moving forward.
Discouragement
My most profound art experience(s)
Thinking about my most profound art experiences and how they ripple through my life and work. Yes, my hair used to be blond-ish.
Creativity and Grief, Part 2
Looking for the good through the hard things. Sorting through my grief via creativity. I don’t have any good answers.
The 100 Day Project 2024
Contemplating this year’s 100 Day Project: what it looks like for me creatively and logistically. Also? I love little boxes.
Let’s talk about art journaling prompts
This week I’m contemplating an art journaling staple: art journaling prompts. Use them, lose them, redo them. So many options.
Why I don’t have a Patreon or other paid services, Part 2
In today’s culture there’s not much chance that we can just love the stupid little thing our heart loves and not try to make money off of it.
Vulnerability
Some notes on what I’ve learned over the course of my art practice about vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard.
It’s ok to change directions
Thinking about the changes that happen in the course of our lives and how we deal with them. It’s ok to change directions.
Welcome 2024!
It’s my yearly recap of my artistic practice for 2023. Plus a concrete list of what my art goals are for 2024.
What’s the art thing you think about all the time?
What’s the art thing you think about all the time? The clock I hear in my head, why we make, and narcissism.
Setting goals for 2024
Looking toward the new year and contemplating where I might put my energy and time in on. Spoiler alert; it’s art and you.
To sleep perchance to dream
We have a new puppy, Feferi. And she’s caused me to go without sleep. A lot. My creativity has suffered for it.
What’s your LEAST favorite art material
What’s something you’ve always wanted to ask an artist and never gotten a chance? Today we are chatting about my least favorite art materials.
Now is the winter of our discontented art making
What is something you’ve always wanted to ask an artist and never gotten a chance to ask? The internet comes through once again!
Big work
Where I examine my feelings about making big work and making small things and what that means for my practice.