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Jul 23, 2020

It’s Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear was published in 2015. Admittedly, when I first tried to read it, I didn’t get...

CeCe Sullivan

Jul 16, 2020

My Favorite Tools

Tar gel Insiders secret. The texture on my paintings? It mostly comes from the clear tar gel medium from Golden. It’s 100% acrylic and dr...

CeCe Sullivan

Jul 9, 2020

A Life Changer

What’s a lead generator? A what? What does drop shipping mean? Heck if I know. In February of this year, I and about 300 other creatives...

CeCe Sullivan

Jul 2, 2020

Wild Thing

There’s a wonderful book that’s come out recently, Wild Interiors: Beautiful Plants in Beautiful Spaces, by Hilton Carter, plant and inte...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 25, 2020

Cheryl’s Quilts

I have a theory that creative souls are impatient souls. But when in the process of their craft, reach inside themselves and tap into a d...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 23, 2020

Summer Studio

Family is so important to me, and I’m lucky enough to have the best. In the process of getting ready to sell my condominium, I’ve been ab...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 11, 2020

Top 10 Prompts When Feeling Uninspired

Play in an art journal. Mine really is just about playing with ideas for future projects, without the stress. Yours could be doodles or p...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 7, 2020

Procrastination with a Capital P

Do you procrastinate like I tend to do? Especially in these months of COVID, where each day seems to dissolve into the next. My days ofte...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 4, 2020

Getting to Here...

I often get questions such as, “why abstract art?” Or “have you always been an abstract artist?” And even the occasional statement like, ...

CeCe Sullivan

Jun 2, 2020

Moving On...

I have a new painting in mind. But we’ll get to that in a bit. For the last several years, my dining room has morphed into my studio, mak...

CeCe Sullivan

May 28, 2020

To live, To Grow

In ‘ The Likeness’, Irish mystery writer Tana French writes, “It’s amazing how stubbornly things survive against incredible odds; how irr...

CeCe Sullivan

May 26, 2020

An old dream, a new beginning

Rites of passage mark those spaces in our lives that move us from one role to the next. And isn’t that what we’re all experiencing now, i...

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