Hint: there’s a prize at the bottom of this post. I hope you’ll read to the bottom, rather than skipping the whole thing, but hey, it’s a free country. You’re on your own with that one. – Can I just say that I love Catherine Caine*? If you haven’t been fortunate enough to encounter the…
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The “Daily” ArtFix and 15 Minutes a Day Art Check-In! #9
How does anything get done? Step by step, that’s how. Whether you’re talking about overhauling a website, growing a business, healing from major knee surgery, learning to play the ukulele (hmm… does this sound like someone you know?) – anything, really, it’s always step by step. Or as I like to say, baby step by…
You Win! 15 Minutes a Day Art Check-In! #8
Here’s how it works: 1) You muck around in the Creative Sandbox, feeling like you’re making no more productive progress than you would be in an actual sandbox, moving sand from point A to point B. Yet you persist. 2) With enough mucking (over a period of minutes, hours, days or even weeks),…
15 Minutes a Day Art Check-In! #7
Okay peeps, I’ve been working for 12 hours straight and I’m beat, so I’m keeping this short. (Apparently that is possible for me. Difficult, but possible.) Today’s #15minutesaday #artcheckin is nothing more than the simple little banner graphic to the left. Written with walnut ink (the dry powder, NOT the wet stuff that comes in…
15 Minutes a Day Art Check-In! #6
I spent all day yesterday bookkeeping in preparation for today’s meeting with my CPA. Except for about a half hour or so in the morning, when I got my paint on. Yep, even with an under-the-gun deadline, I stuck with my commitment. My latest experiments involve odd-shaped assemblages of canvases of different sizes and depths,…
Time, Expectations, Flights to Louisiana, How to Annoy the Hell Out of Your Customers, and Oh, Yeah, 15 Minutes a Day Art Check-in #5
Considering that I’ve been on this planet a respectable number of decades by this point, it’s rather surprising that I seem to be in such utter denial about how long it takes to get stuff done. I mean seriously, it’s not like this is news. You’d think I’d get it by now. Yet I’m…
15 Minutes-a-Day Art Check-in #4
It now being March (how did that happen?), today’s check-in is the official start of the 15 Minutes for March creative challenge! Didja see how I did that? Didja? Snuck it right in there – an extension of the one-month challenge I started in February. Pretty clever of me, huh? The thing is, putting in…
15 Minutes for February Art Check-in! #3
Yes, it’s that time again – time for the #15minutesaday creative challenge art check-in! Above (and the next two images below as well) we have a 4″ x 6″ x 1.5″ canvas, on which I painted Daniel Smith watercolor ground, then, not knowing what else to do, I resorted to ye olde calligrapher’s standby, the…
Weekly Review #46: The Antidote to Feeling Sunk
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m approaching a year since starting this blog – a year in which other people seem to have achieved the kind of success that still eludes me…
15 Minutes for February Art Check-in! #2
Technically, it’s not Wednesday anymore, so I’m late for my weekly Wednesday art check-in, but I’m just going to pretend I’m on Hawaii time. (I do play the ukulele, so that should count, right?) Seriously though, I’ve been having a blast with my 15-minutes-a-day commitment. Most days I spend much longer than 15 minutes in…
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