Big purple flowers

Spray painting with stencils and objects has become my new obsession. First, I sprayed a selection of keys. Which was cool, but I wasn’t sure where I would go with this. So I grabbed red paint and added a few hearts, but that seemed dumb so I made lots of hearts. And the more I [...]

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Martin Luther King from a 5 year old perspective

As an adult, I know his story, I’ve heard his famous speeches, and I would say I have a very good idea his importance to our culture and history. This past week my 5 year old twins had been learning about MLK and we’ve had interesting conversations as they have brought home their daily projects. [...]

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keeping my balance

I have started my principal internship at the online high school I work for, along with additional classes for another degree. You’d think completing my master’s degree would be enough but then I realized I had a head start on this next step in my education since many of the classes I’ve taken apply to [...]

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Doodle Art Class Week 1

I discovered the free workshops offered by Strathmore Papers this month and signed up to take Traci Bautista’s “doodle’s unleashed” class. It’s very fun, it’s FREE, and it’s pushing me beyond my boundaries. As an artist, I have to paint something, some tangible thing. With this class I’m experimenting with different ways of making marks, [...]

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A year of the art journal

I finished my art journal that I had started last summer. Here’s a quick look through my video.

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a room of one’s own

In college I read Virgiania Wolfes’ essay A room of one’s own where she wrote: “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”. As I remember the idea was that if women were to be writers they needed to have access to the same resources and [...]

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