2025 seems to be quickly coming to a close. When I first sat down to draft this blog, it was the end of October - then November passed, and now we are only a few days away from Christmas. Like many others, I like to take this time to look back at things – check in with goals and progress; and consider my best path forward into the next year…
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Studio assistant Panda Bear welcoming the new year.
Welcome 2025!
Happy New Year!! It’s a new year with the same main goal as before, create more art! It’s a simple resolution that I make every year. I used to make a laundry list of resolutions, but now I find simplicity is best. With all the stuff…
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The Art of Framing Art
I love framing artwork! As rudimentary as it seems, the process can be as creative and complicated as the making of the artwork the frame displays. Even when the outcome appears simple and minimalistic…
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One of these is [not] like the other - confronting imposter syndrome as a creative.
Lacking confidence in my work and my abilities has been a shadow cast upon my career as an artist for a very long time. Much like a real shadow, it doesn’t physically impede me from moving forward. However, it still stops me in my tracks…
Read MoreArtistic Growing Pains
As an artist, it’s said you should never like your own work – contentment is a sign of stagnation. It may sound a bit harsh, but there is a lot of merit to be had in that statement. Often, I will feel a great deal of satisfaction with a piece upon completion. Then, after some time has passed, that satisfaction will start to wane. Little by little I begin to see the various flaws and details that I would do differently in the present…
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