Do you recognize the good when you are in the middle of it?
Is our society so involved with the negative that we can’t see the positive? It seems society, as a whole, is so focused on the negative that when we have good times we don’t even recognize them until they have past. If that is so, how do we enjoy each day? I suppose we can [...]
The detail is in the simplicity
I think I was contemplating the KISS (keep it simple, s%&^#d) principle when I doodled this one. I hope your summer days are simple.
Finding Grace in Life
Grace happens, it seems to me, when lives touch. We each have the opportunity to find it each time. The exciting part is we get to choose it.
A Gate Is Like A Door
When I was in France, earlier this year, I took a photograph of a perfectly French gate at Giverny. I came home and gave it my own twist! I think a gate is a door of sorts. Do you? Are any gates/doors opening or closing for you this summer?
DC Door
Sweet Little Door in Washington, DC A little door found while walking through a DC neighborhood. I couldn’t resist doing this little doodle. I continue with some sketching through these hot summer days and consider the goodness of slow art. I hope you are staying cool.
What Does A Painting Mean To You?
As you know from my previous post, I am enjoying Peter Clothier‘s book, Persist. There is so much packed in this tiny book, I wonder if I will ever stop contemplating it all. One of the subjects he brings up is how visual artist have it hard because this is one area where often the [...]
Which Comes First, the Process or the Product?
Some days just getting into the studio doesn’t happen, however that doesn’t mean I am not working on things. I think the time I spent traveling back and forth to Houston (last year) and my trip to Paris brought my work to the point of creating layers in the work process. The idea of the [...]
Still Working Intuitively
I recently had another beautiful email from my glass artist friend, Lesley McIver, in Golden Bay, New Zealand. We were talking about our work and how grateful we were each day we step into our studios when she wondered if I was still doing my intuitive art. The truth is, I can’t stop doing intuitive [...]
Versailles Door
So this is my version of a door we passed by when Elizabeth and I went to Chateau de Versailles just outside of Paris. I have thought long and hard about this post and have decided I am not going to bore you with our photographs and my “architectural importance” dialogue. Instead, I am going [...]