Today, after a long week doing journalism for the local newspaper, I decided that it was time for a complete change of pace. I got out a pencil and a bunch of brush markers, and some small pieces of hot press watercolor cards, and I created a design. I had no idea of the image […]
In my career as a human being, I have doubted myself over and over again. I read that people are their own worst critics, and that is certainly true for me. I gave up art at the age of 15 when I suddenly and with little reason decided that I couldn’t draw. Actually, there was
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When I was a kid, the highest praise I could possibly be given by my dad was that I was “perincon.” If you were perincon, you knew what you wanted and you had an idea of how to make that a reality. You were persistent, consistent, and insistent all at the same time. I feel
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I went back to my friend, the Random Word Generator, and let it choose a D word for me. In its infinite wisdom or what I’d like to imagine to be its infinite wisdom, it chose this lovely word for me. I wondered how I might express “delicate” and searched online for an image that
I really like stylized, somewhat abstract faces because they look like people but not like a photograph. So, because today’s blogging prompt is to share the process of creating something, I thought that I would share how this picture came about. I would have shared the process of making an acrylic painting of a snowy