It’s All in Your Head. It’s All in Your Head. But it starts in your heart, out of a desire. Or at least, that is where it should start if you want to maintain the creative movement to keep your … Read More
Encountering the Art My art History professor ended the class with, “you now know more about fresco than you will ever care to know.” But not me, I have been thinking about frescoes for days. While watching the PBS special … Read More
Do You Have Blank Walls? Introducing Jenny De La Fuente Jenny is a creative who I find very helpful because she is in her own right an emerging artist. She is very familiar with the creative process, accepting the ebb … Read More
Defining Abstraction Some people require that in order for art to be art it has to be realistic, or beautiful or both. Over a hundred years ago groups of artists began to challenge the traditional requirements for art. Before then, … Read More
Can creativity contribute to aging well? According to a program I recently tuned into on Zoom called Curated Conversations, it can. Curated Conversations is produced by the University of Texas at Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. They aired a three-panel … Read More
When the Lord put something in you it’s hard to ignore because it will keep surfacing again and again. For me that something is being an artist. A Change In my early 20s I quit my nursing job, one I … Read More
As an emerging artist, someone who is in the process of making art their business, I receive inquiries about about the size mat needed for a frame. Since I mat and frame a lot of my art, I wanted to … Read More
Why you should attend local art shows Why I like to participate in local art shows. Let me tell you my personal take on the local art scene. When I participate in and attend local shows, I also have the … Read More
The Dallas Museum of Art is referred to as the DMA. It is the first and largest Museum in Dallas, Texas. Organized in 1903, the museum has a large permanent collection but regularly bring in collections from all over the … Read More
Watercolor Textures are building blocks for many of my Mixed Media and Digital Art pieces. I’ve shared in the past a little bit about color textures when I shared my cherry blossom collage art. I have mentioned them numerous times. … Read More