Day 31 of Lent - A One Minute Studio Tour

I get weekly requests to see my home studio.

Though my creative space is not fancy, and not nearly as large and beautiful as some of my friends’ studios, GOSH, I love my art studio.

Why don’t you come on in? You’ll see. It isn’t a big space. But I get an enormous amount of work done in it, and I make use of every square inch. I have pared down to a minimalism that could even allow me to do small, private classes for up to three students - I’m trying to decide if that is something I want to do this summer, or early next year.

Thanks for dropping by. On the interwebs, not in real life. If we were IRL, I would be saying, “Thanks for calling first, setting up a good time, and coming to visit.”

I’m just sayin’. My daughter Sarah is enneagram 7, and they supposedly love drop in guests…but not Sarah. I’m an enneagram 5. Enneagram 5’s don’t do dropping in.

So yeah. Call first, make sure I’m not in the middle of video taping a class, and head on over.

As long as I know you are coming, I will bake a chewy, heavenly loaf of French bread, have a fire in the Preway, and we could pop open a bottle of Merlot and have ourselves the best time.

Day 29 of Lent - New and Hard Things

The new, more difficult challenges never stop, for me.

I remember when I took the commission to paint a waterfall…

…when I had never painted a waterfall, ever.

(prints available in my shop)

In fact, I’ve never been to art school.

Yet, when I emailed the potential collector to tell her all these things, she gently insisted that she thought I could do it. And of course, as you can see, I did it.

I remember how, over a year ago, I sold my first large abstract. It was also my first single piece that sold for a thousand or more dollars. That felt utterly impossible, two years ago. Then one year ago, it happened.

And today, it not only feels doable for me, it has happened over and again, with more to come.

In fact, if I turn my face slightly left, a blank 48x48” canvas sits there.

A new and difficult challenge.

thank you, waterfall painting person….thank you, person who bought that first big abstract (you know who you are)…thank you, strangers who somehow feel like friends - those who have purchased my large paintings in the last year…where would I be without your quiet, gentle confidence in me?