Making art is so hard for me. Not the technical side of things; the skills have always come naturally to me. But the mental side of it is the mountain I have to scale every time. Art is a challenge. But it’s usually an “I want to face this challenge head-on” situation, but it’s still difficult. Most of the time my brain has ideas it wants to express, but when it comes to the execution, my mind seems to always be looking for a new way. A perfect way to solve the problem, or ex

Sometimes it's the simplest things that can make the biggest impact. At the beginning of last October, I was overwhelmed by an extremely long list of to-dos. I had a very overdue oil painting commission to complete. I had an upcoming solo art show that I needed to work on pieces for. I had just moved into a new apartment (after being flooded out of my previous one) and had paperwork to fill out and boxes to unpack. I had people in my life I needed to send some encouragement t