Flustered. Anxious. Stressed. Extra crabby. These are just a few ways to describe how I’ve been feeling lately. My freelance work is busier than ever, I’m working under a deadline for a project debuting in March that I’m really…
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A blank canvas can be a scary, intimidating thing. Many artists have some kind of end product in mind when they make that first mark. But for me, it is the ones who embrace what is happening spontaneously and…
All the world can be boiled down to the simplest shapes and forms. Our eyes tend to focus on details, yet when we really look, we can see the world as a system of circles, triangles, and rectangles. Brooklyn…
There’s a school of thought that white walls = boring. But white walls + wooden textures + pops of colorful artwork? Anything but!! And this Artsy is here to prove it to ya. Let’s take a beautiful, airy space…
Artists, let me ask you a question. When you paint, do you find yourself mesmerized by the way the paint is moving across the canvas? Not in an I’m a painting genius kind of way, but in an omigod…
Thumbing through an old photo album. Spending an afternoon sifting through the contents of a cedar chest. These are things I took for granted before we started traveling. I’m even a bit envious of friends posting childhood photos of…
There is a school of thought that in order for something to be good, it has to be complicated. A special meal must mean slaving for hours in the kitchen, the latest tech gadget must be filled with buttons…
My friend Veronica and I had an interesting discussion recently about women and photography. Specifically, how so often the wife and mom ends up missing from so many photographs because she is usually the force behind the camera, eager…
It seems a long while since I shared thoughts on my latest artsy read! As a woman, it does follow that I’ve always been interested in the female artists who’ve made their marks on art history. But lately, I’d…
So much of what we see depends on how our eyes and brain work to create perception. Last week, I shared the work of a photographer who creates work to change our perception of the body. In her series,…