Sleep Under The Stars

I actually started this piece with an intention: to create a piece of art for a boy's room. This small sketch was the beginning. I almost never start off with a plan when I create, and if I do, it usually evolves quite a bit. I started with basic color areas, nothing very pretty. In …

There is an Over Abundance

I started this piece back in July, while painting at my friend Cara's. I was experimenting with a slightly different palette and trying to play without thinking too much. I really liked what was happening. But I knew that it was not finished. Like so many of my paintings, I just didn't know what needed …

Morning Studio Habit Revisited

I had been real good for several weeks about starting my day in my studio. Up early, breakfast and coffee and straight downstairs. But then other things became more important. Or my schedule for the day didn't pan out quite right. And then 2 weeks went by and I wasn't starting my day in the …

Following My Energy

I've been creating more, recently. Part of an almost daily practice of starting my day in my studio. I'm good about getting everything else done, but trying to get in my studio later in the day is hard work. I've also begun a large project which is stretching my comfort zone. I'm working BIG. 30x30 …

Studio Gratitude

I had been in a pretty good habit of keeping up a gratitude list because of reading "Simple Abundance" But at the end of 2012, and the end of the book, I let this habit slide a little bit. This week I've been pushing myself to get back into the habit of writing down 5 …

Foxy Love

Sometimes my artwork evolves very quickly and sometimes it's slow going. I started the background for this fox collage before the holidays, knowing I wanted to use the foxes, but not sure what I wanted it to look like. Deciding to use two foxes gave me the catalyst to finish this collage, and led me …

15 Minutes a Day

Now that my studio is complete, I can move on to actually creating in my studio. I’ve made it my new goal to spend 15 minutes a day in my studio. This time could be spent creating, or simply reorganizing or just standing in the room-anything that keeps me in the room for a short …

The Thing With Things: Part 3

My studio closet makeover is now complete! My new shelf holds just about everything I had on all my shelfs previously. It's great to have everything organized with a place for my canvases, cards and packaging supplies. I used leftover paint from other rooms in our house to brighten the walls of the closet. The …

The Thing With Things, Part 2

The Thing With Things. This all started because before I could knock out the existing shelves in my closet, I had to take everything off of these shelves. Even though they weren't the most effective shelves, they were still shelves and full of stuff! Like, over a year later, I still have the plates from …

The Thing With Things, Part 1

In the four years that I have had my blog, the last two months of 2012 were the least written months to date. I didn't even make my 4 posts a month quota that I set out for myself in my first post in January 2009 (or was that only in my head). As I begin my …