Keep an ear out for more information! I may have a show coming up this September! I'm also working to get a lot of new pieces done, so it won't be the 'same good ol' art' you have probably already seen!
I'm dedicating a post to briefly talking about how to work while also continuing to do my own artwork. If I'm being honest, this is probably one of my more productive summers. I have never been very good at balancing art when I am working a whole lot. Though senior year of college, I started to pick up the habit of drawing every day in my sketchbook to music (or when I forgot to do it everyday, I made up for those days). After graduating though, it hasn't been quite that easy. I was doing pretty well AFTER I finished working at Camp Jewell (so there was pretty much a whole summer missing), but then I "ran out" of sketchbooks. Meaning I ran out of pages on the sketchbooks I wanted to draw in. So far this summer I have completed 3 pieces, and have worked on about 7 pieces. This is a very small number, especially since I might have a show in September (plus 1 of the 3 was a gift). On the upside though, I was able to create some more cr...
March 3, 2021 “Days to years stand gone but when all else has been forgotten, our song lives on but we have to know some bad times or our lives are incomplete how does our happiness endure love is beauty love is pure how does a moment last forever when our song lives on” Just watched Howard, about Howard Ashman - lyricist of Little Shop, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, etc...[Even though those lyrics are written by Tim Rice...] Just feeling the immediate call to creativity and to use my time while it’s here. We never know when our time will be up and how can I just get out what’s truly inside? Coming into my 30’s where I have the confidence and gut to not always listen to people, and feel that I’m okay paving my own path. It will always be a struggle, but I have a solid foundation thanks to my privileges. I don’t want to throw away my shot. Every year, I grow closer to fully understanding myself. Letting my muse finally find me in action mor...
Some of you may know already, but for the past 11-12 weeks, I have been reading "The Artist's Way-Walking in This World" by Julia Cameron. And I have already learned a great deal about myself, my art self, and fueling my creativity. So for this post, I am extending on one of the "tasks," as well as sharing a tidbit of what I read. "As artist's, we routinely tap an inner well, and the well is fed by our spiritual condition. When we have kept our spirit carefully nurtured, the creative water seems to flow easily. When our spirit is dried out with unacknowledged discouragement, our inner well runs dry." "As artists, we don't want to be petty, but the truth is, we need to be. If we try to 'let go of' a creative slight, we very often simply bury it. There, tucked neatly into our subconscious, it can do its slow and poisonous work. Too embarrassed to repeat the 'tiny' comment to a friend on the way out the door fr...
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