Latest Sunday BLOOM
How to Make Art from Your Heart, Not Your Head (Creative Awakening Challenge Day 1)
Many artists struggle with resistance when sitting down to create. The pressure to make something perfect, doubts about talent, and fear of wasting time keep us stuck in our heads….
Featured Sunday BLOOMS
Late Bloomers
A recent article, passed along by a friend, written by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), illuminates this idea that some artists are fiercely direct and quick with their art. No experimentation, no search- just an incandescent manifestation of work–Picasso. On the other hand, there are those, the “late bloomers” (me…
Red White and Blue
I am staring at this painting on the bottom and I can’t figure what is bugging me about it for the longest time and then I realize it’s the colors. I hate when a painting starts going red white and blue. I don’t know what it is about those colors–I even like our flag…
Surface and Time
This is a detail from a painting I just finished. Sometimes parts of paintings are better than other parts. This kind of density of surface is what I am after. Shapes and forms disappearing and emerging simultaneously. Similar to life…memories fading and new experiences arriving, never perfectly clear, always changing and often just out of reach.
