Tag: creative process

• Sheltering in place

  

  So, what are you all doing in self quartine? Reading? Yes! Facetime? Yes! Video Games? Yes! Hobbies? Yes! Housework? Errr, um Surprise, I actually am doing housework, among other things. You see, I had scheduled this week off since January. A friend from overseas was going to be visiting. So. due to COVID-19, he wasn’t […]

• IN the wink of an eye

  

  For those of you who noticed…….I took down my last post. For those of you who didn’t notice…it’s just as well. I was working on this, but was tired and sick…didn’t I once title a post, “Friends don’t let other friends draw sick”. If I didn’t I should have. I put up a post and […]

• I Wanted to Sell Out!

  But no one was buying. (Warning: Bad art displayed, here) I always wanted to make a living with my art.  At first, I wanted to design posters.  I assumed that if a subject appealed to me, then it would appeal to other people.  However, I think most artists create with that in mind. I’ve been […]

• Stick a fork in it

  Sometimes, the hardest thing in art is calling it quits.  I don’t mean art totally, but each piece has to have an ending, and it’s usually far short of the perfection that you intended. So it is with Sunny Chair Paradise.  I like it, but it doesn’t live up to what I’d like it to […]

• Where’s my Mauve pencil?

  No one will ever accuse me of being a neat freak.  Messiness seems to run in the family.  Here’s a photo of my studio. Somehow, the disorganization hasn’t kept me from efficiently doing art…in fact, I think it helps.  I’ve seen studios where the colored pencils are meticulously kept in color coordinated containers.  I think […]