by Sarah Marie Lacy | May 5, 2016 | Art, Creativity
“Oh my god! It looks exactly like a photo! Wow!” “Just like a photo! Amazing!” If you decide to work in a realistic style as an artist, you hear this all of the time. And it’s always intended as a compliment, and I do take it that way. All the same – it makes me... by Sarah Marie Lacy | Apr 28, 2016 | Creativity
If there’s one thing art has taught me, it’s that I know nothing. Literally, not a damn thing. You’re just painting along, thinking you know what you’re doing and then BAM. Suddenly everything looks different and you were so, so wrong before. The thing is, the truth... by Sarah Marie Lacy | Apr 21, 2016 | Creativity
People see my work and think that the process of creating it is somehow fiddly – that I crawl across the surface of my paper or canvas with pencil or brush, minutely registering every tiny detail. But there’s a world of difference between just copying what you... by Sarah Marie Lacy | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Creativity
There is a point in every painting where I must remind myself to keep faith. There is a point, generally right before everything pulls itself together, where it looks like it is actually never going to pull itself together. That it’s a dud. A disaster. A waste of time... by Sarah Marie Lacy | Apr 7, 2016 | inspiration
I don’t talk about this much in this newsletter, but I love painting portraits. (Oddly enough, I talk about my love of portraiture all the time in my “real” life, but I don’t tend to bring it up often when I talk about my art practice. I’m not really certain why that...