I don’t know about the rest of you creative folks out there, but finding a balance between art-making, marketing and admin is sometimes the hardest job of all. I love making the art, but without the marketing and the admin, it’ll never go out the door. I get torn between love of one thing and [...]
When I was 10, I auditioned for the National Ballet School. There were 4 of us in this particular audition – myself, a girl I barely remember with fuzzy brown hair, a boy, and then The Girl. The Girl who danced like she had angel wings. I’d been dancing for 5 years and my teachers [...]
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 [...]
So I’ve tried to write this blog post 3 times. And each time, it came out wrong. So I decided to make a video instead. I am sitting on the floor of my studio, wearing a blanket, with absolutely no make up on and I look like I’m 5 years old. My presentation probably leaves [...]
Well things have been interesting since the last time I wrote. (Has it really been a week already?) There’s been some hard stuff, but I’m not ready to talk about that yet. Maybe soon. Jesse’s gone home to visit family, and I’m spending the next 2 weeks alone, for the first time ever. It’s taking [...]
I’ve discovered that getting up at 4:30am is actually quite lovely. Jesse’s started a new job at work, working 6:30am morning shifts. Since he has to walk (buses don’t run that early!) he gets up at around 4:30 to be ready in time. I hate waking up alone, so I decided to get up with [...]
Sometimes I wonder if I am, in fact, one of the densest people alive. Really and truly. But maybe this is just the lesson I need to learn right now. Again and again, if I don’t do anything creative for longer than 3 days, I’m seriously cranky. The sad thing is, I then wonder why [...]
This week has been fantastic as far as studio time goes. I am back on a creative roll! I just kept finding that flow. I contribute a lot of that to the Dance of Shiva. It just gets my brain all wired up for creativity. But the most important thing I did to go from [...]
Well, my stomach finally seems to be healing. Between the trifecta of omeprazole, the probiotics and the digestive enzymes, as well as a carefully monitored diet, it should have all the help it needs to start setting itself to rights again. My body, on the other hand, has been left in a much worse state. [...]
So I thought that I was officially over the whole gallery fiasco. But then yesterday I woke up feeling thoroughly discouraged and crappy all over again. I’d been trying to get back on the creativity horse and doing little drawings. I had all these plans about drawing from life every day and painting from life [...]
