Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: December 2010

what you don’t know

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I told you a story about a cartoonist that would absolutely panic after finishing a cartoon. He would think that there were no more cartoons in him. He had no idea what was next. Well that is what it is

Papayaart.com

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Today I saw a card while I was Christmas shopping that looked so great.  The store keeper was talking about art, and my husband mentioned that I was an artist, so the shopkeeper said “oh, what do you do?”  I

The pivotal point

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Every show has a point where you are painting and painting then you see what the show wants to be. This is the pivotal point. You may have to go back and make the other paintings get into line with

The Spillover

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Every single thing we do spills over into the rest of our day. An argument can spill over into a car wreck later in the day or a wrong calculation in our figuring. Which could lead to a bounced check

My tiny house studio

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I have a studio in a dress shop, How fortunate for me to have a tiny house studio. It is everything I need in about 200 feet. I have a work space and a living room to look at the

Imagination

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Everyone knows we are only limited by our imagination to do what we want to do. Well we all know it in theory. but in practice most people do know believe that really really for one second. We see road

Living

If I was going to die in the next month or so, I would want to leave something behind for my children and grandchildren and maybe even their grandchildren. I would want to leave all the things I have learned

Good Enough

Sometimes I hear people say they don’t think they are good enough to continue on some creative pursuit. It does not matter if you are or you aren’t. You only have to do it for the joy of doing it.