My mom sent this family photo of me ca. age 11. I realize the only time I ever feel this content as an adult is when I’m hiking on trails with my partner, taking photographs. But life in the Bay Area forces me to focus on how I will pay rent every month, how I can be productive. Life in America doesn’t value creative endeavors. This reminds me how much my life is out of alignment. May we all find this happiness somehow. #ArtistLife
Hug an artist today.. There are POD sites ( companies artist use to get their artwork on print and home goods) who are now raising prices and charge artist to be on their platform. Our art is what makes it possible for them to be in business. It has been a dark month for artists. #BuyIntoArt#ArtistLife#ArtEconomy#artist
It's always useful to find out what other writers and artists think about their work. This, from Rosemary Sutcliff:
"The temptation is to try & use everything you’ve found out in…research. That can be fatal, because you…only need to use about 1/10. It’s…like an iceberg…It has to be there, because it gives you the freedom of the period. But you don’t use it.”
It has some relevance to my planning of embroidery projects, especially the #OpusAnglicanum. I need to know something about it, but I'm not trying to do a period-accurate one, so I have to be a bit careful about what I include of what I know.
I'm going to be slowing down on my free bird wallpapers for a while because my day job as a college instructor starts again next week.
I'll continue to post new work, but not every night. Not as much time to draw now! Ha!
I knew this was going to happen, and as much as I wanted my series of 100 Birds to be done in time, I think that was an unrealistic expectation. I'm not disappointed--I think I could have eased up on things even if the academic year wasn't starting.
As an artist, you can't be too sensitive since it is not an easy business to be in. But at times things do get to me. I have jumped through the hoops since I was born. It would be nice to stop jumping and simply be. It might have been easier to comply with what society wanted, but that is just not me. This female is NOT going down without a fight. #ArtistLife#Art#ArtMatters#HumanRights
I built a crate for my painting. Do you think it belongs in a museum? #brodalisque
[Description: In the corner of a white room with sparse artifacts, a nerd in khaki garb and a brown fedora poses near a tall wooden crate and a horizontal oil painting of two lounging brodalisques.]