making art my business

hi everyone. now that mardi gras has come and gone, it’s time to get back to the business of making art, and working on the actual business of my art. to that end, i just finished a free online class from jessica serran who is an artist and coach who does various online courses throughout…

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happy holidays and here’s to 2024!

well as usual i have not kept up with this website/blog. november flew by and now we are almost at mid-december. the “find your joy” class is over and i even managed to do an open studio this past weekend which i didn’t even bother to promote here. i’m not gonna go back and recap…

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how’d it get to be november already?

sigh. the last time i wrote here it was the end of september, i was in the 2nd week of the find your joy course and loving it, and i was looking forward to my vacation to new mexico mid october. well it’s a month and a half later now. the find your joy class…

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week 2 FYJ class

i am having a good time with the find your joy course. we are only in week 2 but i have managed to keep up with assignments and weekly calls and journal entries so far. (we are encouraged to keep a studio journal about what we are learning in this class and are given weekly…

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here’s to finding my joy!

i just posted about this on my art instagram page but figured it was worth blogging about as well. i’ve been working this past week on a free taster course (yes, yet another one) this time from artist louise fletcher, who is this lovely british woman and brilliant painter who is about my age and…

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follow up…

just a quick follow up to my last post to present my final piece from the 5 days to jawdropping art program that i mentioned. it took me two weeks because my work schedule had me out of sorts (and out of the studio), but i finished it! and even framed it, which i never…

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