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  • Worth

    Recently, I had a conversation with a girlfriend about kids in high school in relation to what age you learn or decide what kind of friends you want or things you won’t put up with. Oddly enough, at a time that most kids try to fit in or experiment because…

  • Synchronicity

    “A phenomenon where an event in the outside world coincides meaningfully with a psychological state of mind.” Or: “Synchronicity – A Wink from the Universe.” Pictured above is a treasured journal that was given to me as a gift (along with The Artist’s Way). I started using it with the…

  • Thirty!

    “Art? You just do it?”  – Martin Ritt 30 Weeks of Blog posts, 30 weeks of 3 art pieces per week on Instagram.  30 weeks of creativity.  More than half of the year! Looking back on this time, I really enjoyed creating content for regular posts.  I am very proud…

  • Style

    So far with my art posts, I feel like I don’t necessarily have a ‘style.’  I don’t just paint a certain theme in a certain way – like animals in watercolour, buildings with acrylic or classic cars in pen and ink.  I really just like to play and create whatever…

  • Standoffish

    When I was 17 and moved to the Netherlands for a year, I had a horrible last few hours of my flight over.  I felt ill and spent the majority of those hours getting sick in the tiny airport washroom.  I had mentally prepared for moving away and not being…