Stepping into the world as an artist has been a new experience for this wife and three-time mom. During the week I spend my days working in my sketchbook, thinking about new compositions for projects I have been planning for a while, working on the Elephant, and writing blogs and reviews, sometimes into the late …
I am an oddball. And I am proud of it! It makes me who I am in so many ways as an artist, spiritually, and as a person in normal society. What makes me an oddball? Besides my ADHD, my love and passion for the Arts and Music, my INCREDIBLE, goofy family, and my remarkably …
Creating art is one of the most rewarding things I do in my life. Seeing others get joy from something I have made, knowing I have brightened someone’s day with my work, no matter who they are, and especially in these troubling times, gives me happiness I cannot explain. I love moments when I look …
I have so many sketchbooks. One for visual journaling, one for everyday sketching, a few for watercolor, a few for pastel, several from college classes, and a couple of spares that have little random sketches in them but are mostly blank. And then there is The One. My aunt and uncle came into my grandma’s …
So, I have been posting progression pictures of the Elephant that is currently on my table to Facebook and Instagram over the past month and each day I work on it my vision of its finished composition comes clearer to me. When I started this project, I had a considerably basic concept of what I …
Art is not one language. It is not one color, one race, one heritage, one culture. It does not discriminate or demand authority. It exists even in the darkest hour, during the darkest day of the darkest year. It speaks volumes, yet no words are needed for it to be heard or understood. Art brings …
As I mentioned before, I am in the process of building up my studio’s supplies. Most recently, I have acquired a drafting table and chair, and some small accessories for travel and design projects, and now I am shifting my attention to materials. I feel like a blank slate when it comes to getting my …
Today was launch day! So much hard work has gone on behind the scenes and definitely want to give a huge THANK YOU to my new friends I’ve made through Bluehost for all the help we’ve gotten getting this site up and running so swiftly, and to my absolutely INCREDIBLE Allen for putting up with …
I have never done anything like this before. For the past 15 years, I have worked and taken care of my children. I went to college intending on majoring in Child Psychology and ended up a Fine Arts major after my first drawing class. Life changed for me and school was put on hold as …
