“Everyone who says you can’t do something,” she said, “is afraid that you will.” Patty Murray This was Patty Murray’s response to the resistance towards women of political power but can equally be applied to artists. Has someone told you that can’t art yet you preserved and proved them wrong?

How many times have you worried about “wasting” your art supplies? Have you ever been inspired but then stop dead before making a single mark on paper? I sure have! Especially if I have a really nice piece of watercolor paper or some cool papers that I want to cut […]

“All my feelings have the color you desire to paint” – Rumi

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne of the preeminent figures in German literature, he was a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, […]

BEING COMPASSIONATE AND UNDERSTANDINGThis is from a newsletter that hits my inbox from time to time. Don’t give up. Over the past 18 months, humanity has been worn down by the pandemic. Life has not been easy and there may be additional challenges ahead. But as Winston Churchill once said, […]

“My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and writer

“If I can think it, I can draw it and I love coming to the Path with Art [Open Studio] Zoom meetings. It’s so nice to be able to be supportive of not only myself but of other people’s art and their different art making textures.” —Tim Bridge, Path with […]

“Rest & rejuvenation are important parts of the creative process.” – Bex Lipps

“When you haveexhausted all possibilities,remember this: you haven’t.” — Thomas Edison