It’s been a tough week and I’m trying to get inspired to write about Chagall and reflect on the Love Art, Happy Life assignment, but it’s honestly not coming to me. So, this post will be...

Hastur is also known as the King In Yellow and was first introduced by Ambrose Bierce in ‘Haita the Shepherd’ and is noted in that piece as a god of shepherds.  The character was then co-opted by...

After a nice mid-morning snack of leftover pot roast, I found I still had a little over a cup of meat left with no more veggies.  Never wanting to waste, I decided to use the meat in a beef and barley soup...

This week’s inspiration comes from the work of Beatriz Milhazes, a Brazilian artist born in 1960.  Her work is characterized by strong shapes from nature and bright colors. She is associated most highly...

Traveling through Pennsylvania this past spring, A.D. and I stopped outside of Lewisburg for breakfast on the way back home from one of his expeditions.  The Country Cupboard was recommended to us for the...

The discussion this week from Love Art, Happy Life is on being an artist and having confidence in yourself as an artist.  I feel like this is applicable to much more than art though, but since this has turned...

Welcome back!  I hope you had time to check out some of the previous podcasts and tutorials on how to get started if you were one of the many who have no idea what I was talking about with the term...

The second canvas I used to practice my abstract art was awful.  I didn’t like it at all.  The colors were blah and I was not pleased.  So, after seeing several YouTube artists ‘just paint over...