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Fractured Fairy Tales

I'm in my seventies now and I just read something that made my whole life, and my art, make sense. I was amazed that a total stranger...

New from Old

When we moved into our home 30 years ago I used to gather juniper branches in the fall to make a wreath with dried wisteria vine from a...

"If you're not in trouble, you're not learning"

I feel like I'm in trouble all the time when I'm creating art. It's unfathomable. It's elusive. It's baffling. Where do I start? ...

Dream the Dream

Janis said "Dream the dream; actualize the dream; show the dream." Simple! No, not simple. I was a daydreamer whose dreams never came...

NOT BAD

It was 1981, twenty years before I started drawing and painting in earnest. I was a very young mother and wanted to draw my daughter. ...

Possibility

One of the first things Janis Bryant said to me was, "Wait until you see the possibility." Years later, a fellow artist, Charlie Harris,...

You're Doing it Wrong

"Know that what you’re doing wrong is your style. Wrongness is precious. Watch for it, understand it, and keep it up." Robert Genn My...

What IF?

Progress not perfection is my guide in my recent paintings. I’m having so much fun. My kind of fun is quiet, free, loving, curious,...

Knowing What You Don't Know

It was shocking to be told that I would have to unlearn so much if I wanted to be an artist who didn’t start until adulthood. Being an...

"There is no such thing as talent!"

Janis Bryant, July 28, 2007, at my home, conducting one of our final art lessons. I met Janis in 2002, when I sought an art teacher,...