1. That I am surrounded by wonderful and supportive friends 2. That I have an amazing new space to continue my massage practice. 3. I have a beautiful studio to create my art and teach calligraphy workshops 4. My loving and supportive partner. 5. The opportunity to participate in the Paul […]
The initial writings for today’s post had a very different feel and focus, as I moved through my day something shifted in the studio and my mind began to wander. While working on the reclaimed 32-inch raw tabletop that I prepped last week with several applications of gesso. It became clear to me that […]
Teaching myself how to gesso a raw surface to prep it for painting. This might lead to me learning how to stretched and prep my own canvases for future works. I want to start to work on larger canvas and stretching my own will allow me to create any size canvas and cut down […]
This week was a great opportunity to explore some of my past paintings. I have always approached my work with the understanding that it cracks open a door leading to a dream-scape but I have to admit that often feel the paintings looking back into my world, each serving as a two way mirror. Imaginative play […]
I escaped from the studio today and took my calligraphy out to the streets of Rogers Park! The Art Round Trip, Sunday afternoon, was a fun filled event featuring local visual artists and performance art located at the last four Red Line stops; Howard, Jarvis, Morse and Loyola. What did I do… you might […]
As a culture we are always building or creating stuff. Gathering random pieces and parts, connecting them together in the great hopes of creating something larger than the sum of its parts.These objects are assembled and expressed in various modes of constructions: a house, a meal, a sweater or even a career. The small kernel […]
A pastel study that I worked on last night, a small glimpse into my creative process. Some of these elements might find their way into a painting sometime in the future. My focus was to explore the relationships between the human form, color and different ways to divide up the space on the 14in. […]
Tick tock, my personal chaperon for every passing second with the systematically daunting tick tock, tick tock, as I walk down the hallway of time. It is often understood that a minute follows the next in a neat and orderly fashion. I am fairly certain you have experienced moments that time did not follow this […]