Lately, I have simultaneously built on my art business and teaching opportunities. So far most of my art sales have come through the channel of social media, so I have put some time into studying the online marketing a little bit more and am trying to organize and smooth out my own professional online presence. This is […]
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The art that brought me to teaching places me in an unusual giving/receiving mode which I am adjusting to that allows creative idea revelation, and completely surprised me this past year as becoming a solid part of my artistic process. There is something cleansing about service to others, as I am experimenting with what […]
I attempted and failed a realism drawing exercise that became a page of sequential life moment representations (see previous) book club insights It has become a new tradition to visit the local Costco on weekends just to watch people and observe America in amusement, horror, and disillusionment the tragic irony of young gulls killing themselves […]
I failed miserably at plans to draw and journal the entire road trip from Monterey, California to the Grand Canyon and back. Instead I surrendered to long hours of speeding through Mojave Desert highways and the altered state of contemplation that it stimulated. Jewel turned 40, and sang to songs like “Omaha” or we listened to […]
For my 33rd birthday I want to give myself the permission to do what I always have known I am born to do which is write and make art—forever clarifying my own communication, art and writing the products—so I have to really practice bravery now. Its not all self promotion and I must really learn […]
