A Painting Dilemma!

A Painting Dilemma!

Today’s most recent work, and nearly finished: It’s that time of year again: the submission period is open for the state’s most prestigious juried show! I have submitted works to the Spring Salon at the Springville Museum of Art for the past three...
Creativity, Inspiration and Work

Creativity, Inspiration and Work

A friend asked me yesterday about ideas and creativity and basically how I sustain my work and keep coming up with ideas. She was really surprised when I said that I treat my work time like work, and when I sit down to work, I just work. She told me I was the only one...
State of the Bird: Anxiety Edition!

State of the Bird: Anxiety Edition!

Too much is going on! My kids’ schedules are getting increasingly busy, and the amount of things I want to accomplish in my morning work time has increased by a boy-howdy amount. Exponential? Something like that. Hubby’s school schedule this semester is...
State of the Bird: Catching Up Edition

State of the Bird: Catching Up Edition

This is me remembering that one of my resolutions this year (as last year, though I stank at it) is to blog more. o_o I used to be much better at this, but then my favorite blogging platform, LiveJournal, used to have a lot more activity than it does anymore....

2016 Goals

So here are my plans for the year…! I’ll surely add to and subtract from this list, but quite a few of these are goals that MUST be accomplished, rather than things I hope to get done. Which is a bit of a change from prior years! ART Have 20 paintings...