This week I was busy preparing for a big market I have in a couple of weeks. I had to restock prints, cards, stickers, as well as varnish and frame paintings. There is still a lot to prepare, and I feel completely underprepared for the number of potential sales I might get at this next…
Category: Journal
Value Sketching
I’ve never been a painter that spends a lot of time mapping out or planning paintings. I tend to just dive right into a painting. The majority of the time this tends to work out decently for me, but not all paintings work as well as I’d like. During a recent plein air class, I…
Back in the Saddle
Hello again! I know it has been quite a while since my last update, but I lost interest in blogging there for a while. With shit life things happening and being busy, I just didn’t want to write about it. However, I’m now trying to get back to weekly blog posts. While I may have…
2021 Year in Review
This year flew by and I haven’t even had a chance to catch my breath yet. Oddly enough, it started with a distinct lack of painting. All of the work I had put into painting and my blog had fizzled out since the end of 2019. I had experienced a lot of traumatic family hardships…
Building Momentum
This last Friday and Saturday I was a vendor at the MARC Holiday Craft Fair. I was selling originals, prints, stickers, and cards, and honestly really did well. I met a ton of people in the art community, other vendors, and people who enjoy my art. It was a really, really fun. This last craft…
To what end?
Sometimes you have to ask yourself the question “to what end?” To some extent this most recent hiatus from painting has been a crisis. It has also just been a break, a time to focus on other creative outlets. I’ve driven myself really hard the last few years to improve as an artist. I’ve had…
2020 Year in Review
It has been a bizarre year. All I wanted after the nightmare that was 2019 was an entirely uneventful year. Nothing like the whole world sinking into pandemic chaos to make your problems feel small. I don’t have very high hopes for next year since we’re still in the full swing of the pandemic right…
Back to Work
Hello again. It has been a minute since my last post. After taking a few months off from painting I’m finally getting back to it. I didn’t mean to take such a large break, but the stress of everything going on was really taking its toll on me. Letting myself take a break was a…
Feeling the Burn
Sorry for the lack of a post last week. I burned the crap out of my foot and I was feeling a bit sorry for myself. Now a week after the burn, my foot is less painful and I’m feeling a lot less sorry for myself. It definitely helps that I can walk without pain…
Oh, These Strange Times
Homeschooling and yard work are consuming my life at the moment. Not a bad thing, just how I’ve been spending my time. All I want to do is be outside since the weather is getting so nice, but I’m essentially limited to the yard so I’m getting a lot done. Today I had my husband…
Keeping Distance
My bad, I thought things couldn’t get worse. Yet here we find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic and I’m running low on toilet paper. Now I’m kicking myself for thinking people were being so silly with their panic buying. The good news is we’re fortunate enough to live in a really good school…
Playing Catch-Up
The last couple of weeks I got a little off track. I entirely forgot to write up a blog post last week, but I was… distracted. I did get a little painting in though. I completed a painting commissioned for my niece of her dog Fiona and started the painting of her cat Simba. The…