No one lives in pure bliss. I believe that we all have the desire for something more, something fulfilling, something that doesn’t feel like work. When we aren’t honoring that desire, we often feel...
This past year my last living grandparent moved on and it was the first time I took an active role in the sorting of a life. I guess it is a rite of passage in some ways, as it makes you feel different...
As the clock ticks down and we get ready to depart for our big trip to Yosemite and San Francisco, I am in full packing mode. In my own way. Yes, I have the suitcase out and have been doing laundry and...
…is today!!! I have had a few pieces of plaster artwork that I had produced a while back for sale at Millport Landing, an awesome little shop in Millport, NY that sells works of local artisans, antiques...
Way back in Week 17 of Journal 52, there was a prompt called Rise or Fall that asked the journaler to consider ‘rising up, rising above or rising again’ and there was a bonus for creation of a...
I missed my deadline, again! Kicker is that I completed my Marlene Dumas inspired work last weekend and never wrote about it. Bad blogger. Marlene Dumas So this weeks inspiration from Love Art, Happy Life...
Tsathoggua is one of the Old Ones, and though he wasn’t a creation of H.P. Lovecraft, he was first seen in print in one of Lovecraft’s stories, The Whisperer in the Darkness, with a nod to the...
This week’s inspiration on Love Art, Happy Life comes from the short-lived artist Egon Schiele. I love the way the guest instructor, Roxanne Coble, gives some context to Schiele and his work through...