painting

  • Gratitude

    You know that moment when you wonder why some things in your life aren’t up to your expectations?  You think you should be farther along to ‘success’ then you are.  I had that evil thought scamper through my brain Sunday morning.  Then I quickly came to the realization, that so…

  • Five Lives

    One of the exercises in previously mentioned book ‘The Artist’s Way’ chapter 1, is to make a list of your ‘imaginary lives’. If you had 5 other lives to live and money or learning and training were not an obstacle, what would your list look like? Mine look like this:…

  • Negative Space

    You realize you are a person who pays attention to negative space when you are the only one in graphic design class to point out the arrow in between the letters ‘E’ and ‘X’ on the FedEx Logo.  Google it. I was surprised I was the only one that put…

  • Labels

    Do I refer to myself as an artist? In some ways, I feel like I am not worthy of the title ‘artist’.  I only went to art school, and I like to create. In comparison, it’s like someone who didn’t go to carpentry trade school or do much practical training,…

  • Make Me Proud

    What’s important to me and what I want my kids to know is: -set standards of what they want their life to be like -to love themselves -to believe in their own magic/ strength /heart/ power -to be kind humans I think if you have standards and won’t ‘settle’ for…