Looking Back: 2015 Accomplishments

I like to make a practice of reviewing my progress at the end of the year/beginning of the next. It helps me put my work in perspective, and gives me motivation to set goals for the coming year. Thus, this brief reflection! This year was as hard as last, in its own...

Thoughts about tools

Had a productive painting day today! But as I was scraping off my pallette today I realized… I’m taking too long to clean up. I bought my current palette after I ran out of my disposable palette sheets that I had from college. I never really bought a...

State of the Bird: October is HERE edition

Yesterday, in a fit of slump, I invited Twitter followers to give me prompts for quick-sketches, and over the course of half an hour, I had the following: Bad phone photos, here… and all of them very quick sketches. I had a lot of fun doing them, though! Thanks...

State of the Bird, End of September Edition

The website is tweaked and running! I’m happy with the new look, and (more importantly) with the updating method and gallery page! Now to add Google Analytics and figure out what to do with the information I glean… The studio space has been woefully...

State of the Bird: End of 3rd Week of School Edition

So the boys and husband have been in school for three weeks as of today. It has taken about this long to really get my schedule down. I have three hours every morning, as soon as I get the kids to school, to work! My first 20 minutes after I get back are exercise...