When it comes to planning your way toward an envisioned future, milestones work much in the same way that markers along trails do. When a given milestone is encountered, that marker communicates that you’re moving in the direction you envisioned and that your efforts are paying off as you anticipated. — Sexy + Soul-full Earlier … Read More
Great artists are careful not to do all of their art for public consumption, so that their creativity is not unduly determined by external motives, e.g. trends, accolades, money. — Tom Neal I have a love-hate relationship with Instagram. On the one hand, I really enjoy the community of friends and acquaintances with whom I … Read More
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