All winter a pair of Northern Cardinals flew around my yard and would sit in the tree outside my desk window. I love birds and living among Cardinals is a new experience for me. Sometimes I find myself

Yesterday I came across @doctorcrypto's "Sketchbook Spotlight: A place for sketches new and old". I've always loved seeing exhibits that also show the artist's sketchbooks so I like the idea

here I'm assembling a repeating tile design If you’re a creative, you have no doubt contemplated the market, the financial end of your dreams and how to balance this with your creative process. I have

Inspiration has never been in short supply when it comes to my creative process and I always have an abundant flow of good ideas for things to create. However, the time and energy to put all of these in

These days I love tile projects that are meditative and don’t ask too much of me creatively. This might sound counterintuitive since I'm an artist and after all isn't creativity my thing? Yes, yes absolutely,

Happy Saturday everyone, it’s been a pretty good week here in my little corner of life and I hope it has been in yours as well. It feels so good to finish, pack up and ship art that I’ve been working on

Yesterday when I looked on Steemit for the first time in a few weeks I realized that the landscape here has really changed. My feed is populated most prominently with different names and there has been

Ta da -----> my new studio! No it’s not the 1000 SF ceramics studio outfitted with 4 kilns, a RAM press, well-stocked shelves of materials, and much more that I just left behind in Portland, Oregon,

Each year around Thanksgiving I find myself wondering why in western culture we don’t say “thank you” more often. After all, it has such benefits like the instant dopamine high for the giver, receiver

How important is a work space? What kind of space do we need to create? I’ve been thinking a whole lot about these questions recently. While moving out of one studio and into another I found myself in