The Biggest Reason To Make Your Art

by | Jun 2, 2016 | 15 comments

I have just one thought this week and it keeps coming up again and again for me. It has to do with one of the primary, worthwhile reasons to make your art. It has nothing to do with what you hope to get out of it. Not monetarily. Not even notoriety. None of that. And...

The Gift Of Anticipation

by | May 29, 2016 | 16 comments

There always is a little anticipation, a little nervous energy when we are starting something we haven’t before. In art and in life, this feeling is useful. It provides the juice, the energy to begin and make something different. How do you start something new?...

How do you know when you are done?

by | May 26, 2016 | 16 comments

Sometimes it is not always clear when a particular piece of art is done. And because of that, sometimes, I just keep changing the art more and more till at some point the painting I had been trying to finish is now so different that it has become an entirely new...

How Can I Copy Another Artist’s Work?

by | May 19, 2016 | 14 comments

I kind of cringed when I wrote that subject line. I used to think like this. In the past, usually when my art was not going so well, I would look outside of myself for answers. Maybe I hadn’t sold anything or was just feeling kind of unconfident about what I was...