So when I decided to apply to the program in France, I decided to complete 6 mind-blowingly awesome paintings to send with my scholarship application. I thought, I’m going to apply all of the knowledge I’ve ever learned into these 6 pieces, and they are going to be amazing and then they’ll just have to [...]
Category Archives: This is me working on my stuff.
A plea to the Muse. And Barbies.
October 26, 2010 – 8:50 am
Dearest Muse, I could do with a little bit of help. Seriously. I am working my little tush off, but I need you to show up today. I promise I’ll be nice. But every time I try to paint the head on this painting, it just comes out wrong somehow. The neck gets too short [...]
Reclaiming.
October 1, 2010 – 11:01 am
It’s been a long month. I’m still not sure if I’m ready to write this, ready to be here. I feel raw, vulnerable. Putting my Self, my words out in the world right now – it’s scary. There’s a hard knot in the pit of my stomach that only wants us to keep on hiding. [...]
A confession and a plan
August 31, 2010 – 10:39 am
I have a confession to make: Behind the scenes, I’ve been kind of falling apart. I haven’t spoken about it yet, but things have been tough lately. I guess I didn’t really know how to put it into words. Let me rephrase that – I didn’t want to put it into words. I’ve finally had [...]
Overwhelm and enoughness
July 5, 2010 – 6:29 pm
I have come to the inevitable conclusion that I am just never going to be an adult. Again and again, I struggle with the idea that I somehow need to get it together, to grow up, to be responsible. That I need to eat 8 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, not let mold [...]
Unfortunately, I have nothing Important to say.
June 4, 2010 – 8:39 pm
You know, I started writing this post about liberating myself and living an unconventional life, but it just started to feel really…I don’t know. Weird. Contrived perhaps. Anyways, I got to the end and thought “What a piece of crap.” And so now I’m writing this post instead, hoping that it ends up [...]
Losing my centre
May 31, 2010 – 11:33 am
It’s funny, I can always tell when I’m off centre with myself. I spend loads more time worrying about what people think of me and my health starts to nose dive because I stretch myself too thin. I send my energies too far into the world and the next thing you know, I’m sleeping 10 [...]
My life’s in my hands
May 28, 2010 – 12:05 pm
Again and again, I need to be reminded of who I’m painting for. It’s so easy to start painting to impress someone else – critics, gallery owners, even fans of my work. You start to listen to too many outside opinions and you forget to listen to your own. Robert Genn says artists need to [...]
Meeting myself where I am.
May 26, 2010 – 3:07 pm
Monday was a long weekend here in Canada, and it was a beautiful one – warm, sunny, and smelling of spring. A friend called me up and armed with camera and sketchbook, we walked down to Victoria Park, a public park that runs along the edge of the harbour. It’s pretty big, so you can [...]
