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 | Mar 16, 2015 | Art, Creativity, Lessons Learned, Passion
I wrote a post a little while ago about making mistakes, self-criticism and why sucking at your art doesn’t say anything bad about you. I’ve been talking about these ideas with my father a lot, since he’s on his own creative journey with the... by Sarah Marie Lacy | Nov 3, 2014 | Art, Creativity, Fear
Sometimes when I’m working on a painting or drawing, I’ll jokingly say something like, “Hey, this doesn’t suck!” or some other tongue-in-cheek joke about the quality of the work. Or maybe I’ll bring up that something in the piece isn’t working – I’m frustrated...