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Continue Reading: Deadline Looms: A Work in Progress
This one needs to be short. I have a ton of work to do. I’m not sure that I’m happy with the progress of either of these, but I like the city one better. I just find it more interesting. I do wonder if my reticence to work on the landscape is because it feels…
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Continue Reading: Inspiration: Deadlines Work
Rescued, at least my creative part in it, is finished, put to bed. No longer do I have a deadline to blow apart. (Granted, a broken right wrist is a pretty good reason for blowing through a tentative deadline, for those of you who want to hire me for something amazing. Deadline destruction is not…
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Continue Reading: Shameless Self-Promotion
Guess who got accepted into the VPS Juried show?!! This rank beginner! They even used it on the promotional poster. So…..if any of you are planning to visit the teeming metropolis of White River Junction, VT this fall, stop into the Long River Gallery and see it. Buy a piece of art while you’re there….maybe…
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Continue Reading: Where the Sausage-Making Happens
Back in the days of working for a steady paycheck and health insurance, before I took the plunge into the full-time artist label, I would spend downtime checking out artist studios on Pinterest and losing a lot of drool. Finally, back in 2016, I decided to do something about it. That extra bedroom was going…
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Continue Reading: Informal Artist Retreat
My sister has a lovely home in southern Vermont and often, I will take care of her 3 dogs while she is off with her wife enjoying various adventures. I bring along Tsuki, my young German Shepherd. It’s like camp for her. She has three friends to play with…actually, two. The third is an ancient…
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Continue Reading: August….
….was pretty amazing. This pastel painting was accepted as a finalist in the “Women in Art Prize” competition and the Vermont Pastel Society juried show. I’m still not sure about the title of the piece. I like coming up with puns or something subtly snarky but I was running out of time, so I slapped…
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Continue Reading: Learning Adventures
Somehow, it is an accepted truth that Wordpress is an easy way to design and develop web sites. I beg to differ. I have been futzing around all day trying to control the menu bar, blog posts and where those blog posts end up and I’m finally getting some luck. I’m sure that I’ve been…