In November we are thankful, right? Free Writing Free writing is an exercise I learned in one of my writing classes in college. Just start. Write. You will get somewhere if you do and nowhere if you don’t. Just do … 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
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
The Value of Literature My Encounter with the Book A close friend of mine introduced me to this book at a critical point in my life, where I too was encountering a piece of artwork that would change the course … Read More
Listening to a Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, I began to think about how I can take the very important things that Jesus taught on the hill and relate them to my art and business. I want … Read More
When I paint, I want to paint beautiful things. When I went to art school, beautiful art was characterized as decorative art and excluded from contemporary art. I don’t think that is true anymore. There are so many women artists … Read More
Connecting with childhood friends can be interesting… yes, very interesting, especially when you are an artist and you discover that old friend of yours is too. Since 2003, Annette Kennedy has been creating pictorial art quilts that incorporate hand-dyed, painted, … Read More
