Sometimes we miss out on enjoying simple pleasures because we are saving them for later. We don’t honor or respect ourselves enough to allow us to enjoy the good stuff on an everyday basis. With some practice, this can become a way a life. We save every exciting, new experience for another more convenient day. [...]
I wanted to share my notes out of my sketchbook that I jotted down to help me get a handle on the concept that is involved in my Twenty-Something Painting: BARREN. I typically paint happy stuff, but I am up and down just like everyone else. These notes were written several months ago. I am [...]
Thinking Out Loud: Surrender My daily devotional today involved the word surrender. It was a fine article, written by a man. It began with reviewing the negative connotations surrounding the word surrender. Losing a battle. White flag. Giving up. Forfeiting a game. Yielding to a weaker opponent. I could not relate to any of this. [...]
Ok, I am officially unplugging at 4pm on Saturday. That means no laptop, no cell, no TV, no electronic music. I will plug in again on Monday Morning. Well, I better add one exception to the electronic music thing, I will experience electronic music during church this weekend, since we have screaming loud guitars at [...]
Comfort in Linear Creativity When I first began to explore painting, it was a little like an explosion. I wanted to try everything, paint everything, become everything. It was exciting. It was consuming. It was hard to keep that up. I am finding this summer in particular a certain comfort from limiting my palette, my [...]
Here are a couple of peaceful pics from April’s Artist Retreat . It is so nice to run away from responsibilities and take ALL your painting crap and just hang out and create something. (Mrs. English Teacher, is THIS a run-on sentence? ha-ha) Next time I will remember that I really don’t NEED watercolor, [...]
