Studio Journal 5: Progress, Aided and Abetted by Trolls
When I first decided to keep this public studio journal, the plan was that it would make me feel guilty if I didn’t report to the world my progress in […]
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Studio Journal 4: Archaeology of Flat Surfaces
Every room tells a story. A room full of stuff tells even more stories, if you can focus on each bit and its interrelationship to other bits. Which is a […]
Studio Journal 3: The Easy Stuff, and a Photo Safari
When faced with overwhelming details in a big job, if there is no clear beginning point, I often start with the easy stuff just to get started. From there, order, […]
Studio Journal 2: Starting Points
Whenever I’m faced with a daunting project, I always think of it as a tangle of string, and start searching for an end to tug, tracing the knots to unwind […]
A Studio Journal
All that measuring of artwork for my previous post gave me an idea: why not do the same thing, only by the week? And report on other things going on […]
Finding Authentic Visibility
It’s a turtle. Why a turtle? Because I’m very slow off the mark in reporting on a week of my life that challenged and inspired me, while scaring me a […]
The Zooly Art Challenge
Zooly is a month-long art challenge during the month of July, dreamed up by Karen Gillmore and Melody Pena, two artists who both like drawing and sculpting animals. Every day for the month of July, there will be a prompt for an animal to spark your creative juices.
Exercising the Muse
My hard-working muse, Iris, just sighed when I said I was going to do the Opus Daily Practice Challenge again. She has muscles on her muscles, she positively sweats creativity, […]
Creative Resolve
Yesterday I had a look back at the last year, and promised (in a moment of madness, no doubt) to post about my resolutions for the coming year. Yikes! What […]
A Serene Solstice
It’s already gone midnight, here on the west coast of Canada, and I know the actual astronomical moment of Solstice was around nine hours ago, but the sentiment is the […]
Inspiration Recharging Break
Today I made no art. None at all. No drawing, no inking, no painting, no writing, no music. Instead I took a day to “inspire”, in the sense of the […]
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