How do you make art?

How do you make art?

Question from a fan- How do you make art?? Where do your ideas come from? It’s both harder and easier than it seems. At it’s best, you are constantly awash in inspiration, anxious to create. At the worst, filled with ideas you can’t execute, anxious to try...
Sailing

Sailing

Today’s piece of the day was inspired by sailing the ocean on a vacation adventure. After a long day of battling waves, wind, and -perhaps- pirates, the sun sinks slowly into the west as a golden gleam against the sails….
Second Wind

Second Wind

Tuilerie Sailboat by Juggling Mom There are times when running a studio business is very much like running a ship.  As captain, I chart a course amongst the craggy reefs of financial ruin and artistic failure. I tack to the winds of fashionable indifference, and...
Thoroughly ‘Thusiastic

Thoroughly ‘Thusiastic

This week’s thought-provoking whatsit took me completely by surprise. I was walking along, minding my own business, when wham out of the blue I  was remembering in vivid detail a passage from one of my favorite books, Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley. The...