Process AND Product AND a gift!
Hello Creatives! There’s only 1 week left to register for a five-week hands-on journey where you will experience intuitive process painting, explore the principles of design, playfully experiment with...
View ArticleIs making art really just for kids?
Last night I received a message on my voicemail inquiring about my children’s art classes. The interesting thing is, I don’t teach children’s art classes. Even more interesting to me, this is not the...
View ArticleCreating a Sweet Rebellion
My amazing teaching partner Angi Donovan wrote this about our upcoming Chakra Experience. Give it a ready – you’ll be glad you did. Hello Beloved Souls, A GREAT revolution is happening right NOW,...
View ArticleSlow start
morning contemplations Notes from my studio yesterday: Getting a slow start. My body and mind just won’t be rushed into activity. And as I feel the beginnings of self-judgment and recriminations...
View ArticleJodorowsky’s Dune and the importance of saying YES!
Movie poster for Jodorowsky’s Dune This past weekend I went to our local art film house with my husband to see “Jodorowsky’s Dune”. It’s a documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s huge undertaking back...
View ArticlePower of Permission
It never ceases to amaze me how much can be learned and deeply transformed with the simple tools of paint and paper and the practice of intuitive process painting. That’s why I’m so passionate about...
View ArticleMore thoughts on Permission
some of my recent experiments So many lessons to learn from the process, and from teaching it – and to RE-learn, again and again. Another thing about permission? I have to remember that it applies to...
View ArticleBeginner’s Lessons
In the spirit of my last post about permission to be a beginner, I allowed myself to follow along on a beginner’s painting tutorial that caught my eye the other day. (I’m also getting more and more...
View ArticleThe Risk of Sharing
“If you make things and share them, your heart will at some point be broken. If you never share, it will harden. Your choice.” ~Todd Henry, The Accidental Creative I came across the above quote a...
View ArticlePainting and Harry Potter’s Liquid Luck
Since the very sad news of Alan Rickman’s death in January of this year, I’ve been re-reading J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of books. It’s been very enjoyable to dive into that wonderfully...
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