Day 13. “Brutiful”

“Brutiful” 9×12, oil on paper Over the holidays, our oldest came back from college and after weeks of his planning it, we sat around the kitchen table and did something I have never done before. We played Dungeons and Dragons. If you aren’t familiar with this particular game, this is how the official website describes […]
Day 12. Of Wonder and Grief

Day 11. Those Spinning Wheels.

Day 10. Magic.

Day 9. Take your own advice.

“Taking the World into my Arms,” 6×6, oil on canvas I was having some trouble in the studio, so I took the advice I recently gave another artist: paint something familiar while you wait for the next inspiration to come. It usually comes when you’re painting, afterall. So I pulled three figures from a photograph […]
Day 8. There you Always are

“Sometimes I Need Only to Stand Wherever I am to be Blessed” 8 in diamater, oil on canvas Yesterday, after posting my painting with the great blue heron, I went for a run. I haven’t been running much lately– the December marathon felt like a triple exclamation point and now I hardly know how to […]
Day 7. Love Letters.

“Led by Love” 8×8 oil on canvas Writer Elizabeth Gilbert has a spiritual practice called “two-way” prayer where she writes a letter to God which she often just calls Love and then writes a letter back to herself from Love. I tried this practice months ago and it was so good, so healing that I […]
Day 6. Stand as 10,000

Day 5. Exhale.

“Exhale” 6×6 oil on canvas I have been keeping a sketchbook this month in hopes of making this 31 a little more organized, a little less frantic. If I can work out the ideas ahead of time, so goes my thinking, my actual studio time can be less fraught. Ease is my word for 2024 […]