| BRAVE, JOYFUL AND FULL OF POSSIBILITY | Your Creative Adventure. Discomfort Resilience: Learning to Stay With the Creative Process I’ve been thinking a lot lately about discomfort and creativity. I recently heard the Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön use the phrase "discomfort resilience." She was talking about life in general—our capacity to stay present with uncertainty, fear, and difficult emotions instead of always trying to escape them. As soon as I heard it

Hello friends! I hope this finds you with paint under your nails, a sketchbook nearby, or at least a moment of quiet inspiration in your day. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese." If you're not familiar with it, or if it's been a while, the opening lines always stop me in my tracks: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of yo

My parents live in Delaware and for about 30 years my mother (with Dad's help) has created an oasis in their yard. She LOVES gardening,...

Hello lovelies! I have been reading about and meditating on self-compassion and learning to be a gentle friend to ourselves for some time...

Hello lovelies! We've been traveling around Michigan for the last month or so and I wanted to share some pics and some insights. When I...

Hello friends! I wanted to share some recent discoveries I’ve made of contemporary artists from Spain whose work makes my heart go...

Why is painting/creating scary for many of us? We can all agree there is no danger there, it won't kill us, it won't even injure us...

I hope you are finding creative time as spring is calling us outside! I'm squeezing in some playing and painting in between move-related...

Well, we are heading to Virginia to house hunt for the next couple of weeks! Send house -finding energy my way lol. Wouldn't it be fun...

There are many times in my life when I've chosen to be confident when I didn't necessarily feel confident. It just seemed to me a better...

I'm so excited about this new class, "From Painting to Product - Simplified!" I can't wait to see your art on products!! You've been...

This week, my licensing agent emailed me and said, "Would you be interested in working on some pigmented, bold color pieces with details...

If gratitude were a pill, we'd all be taking it 🤣. There are so many studies documenting the many benefits of simply focusing on what we...

I often discuss the ugly stage of paintings in my classes, it's somewhere in the middle of the painting creation process and it's...

Hello beautiful souls! I'm so excited to begin releasing limited edition, digitally signed, and numbered prints! Here are the first three...

Happy Monday beautiful, creative souls! Since my intention and mission is to free creative spirits everywhere, I'm interested in anything...

This may sound radical but I believe the concept of talent has caused untold damage to the human creative spirit. We are given messages...

In 1905 an artistic movement exploded onto the art scene in Paris. It developed from expressionism in the sense that both used color as a...

“I REALLY want to find my style,” that’s what a recent student posted on our Facebook student group. Most of us can relate to this...

There is a module in my online Sketchbook class called, "Getting through the ugly stage," where I begin an abstract painting, it gets...