I was recently asked, When is the art done? And I gave some silly response that had nothing to do with the question. Maybe if she’d asked, Is the art ever done? I might have answered like this: No. It’s never done. Not really. Not if the artist uses pigments to tell a story and [...]
Other than as a way of earning a living, what drives an artist, writer, musician — any creative person — to do what they love doing? Why does an artist paint? Or a writer write? I know there are many reasons — all as unique as the person(s) behind the art — but here are [...]
Stories have always inspired me. Perhaps because I was raised with them, in one art form or another… When I was a young girl, our family often took Sunday drives through the country-side, with the hoped-for goal of buying ice cream cones. A favorite trip was to a small college town twenty miles due west [...]
If I compare myself to others, I will always fall short — simply because I know my own weaknesses and have lived through my failures. I don’t see yours. You show me only your best. How can I ever expect my weaknesses to compete with your strengths? In an article at the Empty Easel called [...]
My interest in all things art-related goes back to my little girl days of Crayola crayons, kid-safe scissors and paste, and all the scrap paper I could find. I remember loving the splashes of color in my grandmother’s English-style gardens, and how pretty everything looked when the sun was low in the sky and made [...]
