A couple of years ago, I took a workshop called “Fine-tune Your Artistic Voice” taught by ceramicist, Elaine Henry. At the time, I didn’t think I had an artistic voice—I felt very much like a copyist. I had been taking lots of classes on CreativeBug (like Lisa Congdon’s Sketchbook Explorations) and most of my drawings … Read More
One year ago today, I did something that, at the time, felt very risky. In fact, y’all, I was scared to death. On October, 11, 2016, I announced that I wanted to become a full-time artist. That may not sound like a big deal to you, but to me, it was a huge deal. Part … Read More
Two years ago, as Sexy + Soul-full was going to press, I started looking for potential endorsers. Writing to total strangers, especially people I admire but whom I don’t know, was a huge stretch for me. Asking them to read my book and write an endorsement was a gigantic stretch. Basically, I’m a total introvert … Read More
Recently, I made a very big decision. I want to share with you what happened because what you see here will soon be very, very different. First, a little back story. I took the entire month of August off. This was my first summer vacation in a long, long time and it was packed with … Read More