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Category Archives: New Art!

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… Continue Reading

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… Continue Reading

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… Continue Reading

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… Continue Reading

Acrylic Experiments and A Skeptical Angel

I’ve kept to my commitment to paint every day for at least 15 minutes, though sometimes – like last night – the painting didn’t actually happen until it was technically the next day. Whatever. I’m not letting details like that get in the way. The point is, I’m getting in the Creative Sandbox every day,… Continue Reading

In which some stuff gets dropped, and art gets picked up

Here’s what happens: You make a goal to create the life you really, really want. Then you start doing stuff that you think is going to help you attain that goal. Ie, creative stuff that you’re super-excited about, that you’re hoping will grow into a recurring source of income. Said stuff is part of your… Continue Reading