What if I told you that your creativity doesn’t need to fix you, heal you, or serve anyone else’s agenda? What if the most revolutionary act you could take today is simply making something because The Creation moves through you – not because a wellness guru told you it would reduce your anxiety?
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Hand Painted Surface Pattern Design: Where My Collections Start
Every pattern I make starts somewhere you can touch: a painting on the studio table, an ink line on paper, a shape I can’t stop drawing. Here’s how those marks become collections, and why the scratches stay in.
Why I Burn My Old Artwork
There’s a drawer in my studio where finished work goes, and when it gets too full it pushes back on everything new. So every few months, I burn it.
Making a Mini Art Journal from Scrap Painted Paper
I don’t keep an art journal. What I do keep is paper: big painted sheets that catch brayer roll-offs and leftover paint. Here’s how a couple of them became a mini art journal with fold-out pages, a cover cut from an experiment, and a long stapler. It isn’t finished. It’s started.
Unquiet Ground: A Mixed Media Series on Reclaimed Panels
The full process behind Unquiet Ground — scraping back another artist’s work, painting live, and why none of these need a frame.
Painting Over Reclaimed Panels: What Happens When Nothing Is Precious
A fellow artist handed me a stack of discarded panels and I had no idea what she’d done to them. That was the whole point of picking up the brush. Watch what happens when nothing is left precious enough to protect.