There are times in which I find it difficult to get started.  Sometimes it is after a major achievement or move forward.  Sometimes it is after a rejection or disappointment.  Sometimes it is just sheer laziness.  How do you get moving again in your painting journey?Currently, I’ve just finished an amazing couple of months on […]

Every now and then, a book will really launch some great thought and move me forward.  I just began reading “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert upon the recommendation of a friend and already it is a new favorite.   Here is a quote by one of Elizabeth’s favorite writers from the first couple of chapters: “Do […]

It is a rainy day on Cape Cod, this day before Thanksgiving, and I could not be happier.   This year has brought so much change and we are in a very different place today than one year ago.   I am having tea and a muffin this morning in my studio, preparing for an […]

  As artists, we tend to notice things around us constantly.   I have hundreds (and hundreds) of photo references I’ve taken over the years of places that I love when the light caught the side of the building or the pathway in such a way to cause me to stop and take it in.   This […]

Goodbye to summer….. This weekend, I stumbled across a blog by Anna Hartman called ” In the Next 30 Days” in which she shared her 30 day challenges and progress and invited others to do the same.  it is a beautifully constructed blog, but I am not sure it is still active. It has me […]

This week at work I ran across a TedTalk by Simon Sinek – “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” I had seen it before, but it resonated this time, both for my campus work and my art work.  He has developed a visual model focused on determining the ‘why’ for whatever you are attempting and letting […]

As a painter, I’ve grown set in my ways.  When you find something or a set of something’s that seem to work, you don’t change it up, right?  Until you do.  ‘Set in your ways’ holds you right where you are. For the workshop, I made sure to have everything on the supply list, including […]