illustration

  • 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…

  • Possibility

    I was reading in ‘The Artist’s Way’ the section on Recovering a Sense of Possibility. Oddly enough, the author Julia Cameron talks about Solitude in this chapter – which was my blog topic last week.  She also relays the importance of solitude for an artist, saying ‘without this period of…

  • Apprenticeship

    Having various experience is life enriching.  From ‘The Artist’s Way’: “All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.  The big art is our life.” This doesn’t necessarily have to be an ‘art’ but anything you are passionate, excited or curious about.  They can all be considered apprenticeship.  They don’t have to…

  • Twenty!

    My 20th Blog post!  Already!  When I started, I hadn’t realized 20 blog posts would happen so quickly.  This has been every week since March.  I have added this weekly activity to my routine.  I have enjoyed writing about something every week and managed to keep up with the regular…