Mother’s Day can be challenging.  My mom sent me a picture a few weeks ago and asked me to create something similar, and I thought, ‘there is no way, that takes a technique I don’t have...

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...

We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different.  You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town.  We picked a...

Today will be the inaugural post in a series on creating mud art.  I have somehow epically failed and can’t find a single picture of any of the previous artworks I have done in this form.  Blurg. In...

This week’s lesson in the Love Art Happy Life was on Gustav Klimt and the task was to do a Klimt-inspired piece as homework.  I continue to recommend this e-course as it is helping me think about art...

Keep is one of my new favorite apps.  It will be one of yours soon too! I have searched and searched for a note taking app and tried many that are good and work for others such as Evernote, but didn’t...

Today’s adventure is a blend of two earlier posts, my 2016 food goals and one on being a tourist in your own town. The plan was to hit the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, see the sponsored Rockwell Alley...