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Category: Art
Mandalas in Nature
I love to make mandalas. Sometimes, when I’m not sure what to work on, I create one using the Procreate app. Procreate has a feature called guided drawing which helps you to create beautiful, symmetrical mandalas. I was recently listening to a podcast with Liz Wiltzen and Schuyler Brown, in which they discussed the process…
Harmony in Chaos
Things are moving along here at the studio. This past year, I started selling some art on Facebook marketplace just to dip my toes in the water. It’s been encouraging to me, not because I’m making money. It’s more a confirmation of yes! someone really does want to buy my art. I also have (finally)…
James Gillray, Fine Bracing Weather
James GIllray’s Fine Bracing Weather is part of series of seven etchings, entitled “Weather.” They depict various states of Englishmen “enjoying” the weather. The most famous of these is “Very Slippy weather,” because it shows a man slipping on the ice outside of the print shop where GIllray’s works were published. This print shop was…
Susan Rothenberg at a Drawing Class
Susan Rothenberg is one of the best painters of the post modern era. Her horse paintings of the 1970’s brought something so shockingly new to the art world, which at the time was saturated with pop art and minimalism. As Peter Schjeldal put it: “It was like a great malevolent joke in a year of…
Closed my Etsy Shop
Why does the Internet influence us to commoditize our hobbies and our passions? I have been so guilty of falling under this influence and its time to reign that in. That’s not to say turning your passion into a business is a bad thing. It’s just that the Internet is so crowded with people and companies that…
Coma Drawings: The Pixel Art of Craig Robinson
Craig Robinson (otherwise known as @flipflopflying) is an artist who works in the pixel aesthetic. The work that he is most known for is his collection of minipops: famous people drawn really small. I became aware of his work in the early 2000’s when I started a nursing blog called PixelRN. I knew I needed…