My Blog: An Unfinished Story

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...

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...

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...

Wild Thing

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

To live, To Grow

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

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,...