Learning from Black Creators
This is a round-up of classes I’ve taken taught by black creators, each one offers specific techniques and skills. They also go deeper into their creative process. They…
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Different Mediums, Different Satisfactions
My favorite art materials. What a task it was to decide! I have a board on Pinterest where I collect images from people’s studios, as well as my…
Procreate and Me
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I’ve been hesitant for as long as I can remember. It all started with electronic music. Kraftwerk and the long history of technology…
How to Start Drawing
Let’s say you want to draw or paint. Where do you start? You might Google the most basic question: how to draw? You might go to the library…
The Art you Want to Make
The best feeling about making art is realizing that there was nothing there, and suddenly, there is. There was no drawing, no painting, no photograph, no essay, no…
How the Creative Independence Guide was Created.
It started with the nagging feeling that I was, in fact, not creative. That I couldn’t call myself an artist. That I could not make my ideas click.…
Today
I’ve been avoiding reading about covid-19. I receive the Quartz newsletter and that’s about all I was able to handle. But today, March 25, 2020. I’m reading about…
The Self-Taught Artist and Our Piles of Work
During these interrupted times, moments of disconnection are so important. I’m so proud of my husband and me for implementing No-Modem Sundays in September. You probably are sick…
How I Manage my Time Online
Raise your hand if you’ve tried to reduce your time online or at least your phone. I know I have. For the longest time. I hated that I…
Go from Intermediate to Advanced Watercolor
If you are a self-taught artist, it can become difficult to make enough progress to go from beginner to intermediate to advanced. If you are looking for books,…
Learning to Use Colored Pencils.
I bought a box of Prismacolor pencils in 2017, back when I was buying everything in my innocent belief that better materials would make me a better artist.…
No Modem Sunday #3
I was listening to a podcast this afternoon about a creative business owner who took a long internet break from her business. It got me thinking how my…