setting intentions
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Process! #4
Fourth step: cycle through steps 1-3 as many times as you choose, layering additional dripped lines, splatters, mark-making, and intentions for 2025. ✅✅✅✅ Step 4.1: Amanda doesn’t include an explicit step for working collage into the exercise, but she has bits of collage showing through in her painting, so how can I not follow suit? Continue reading
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On My Nightstand, On My Easel*, June 2023
On my nightstand: On the spectrum of obsessively orderlyto sublimely unconcerned with the everyday physical world,my father and sister were—actually, they were nowhere;they were somewhere near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border,still looking for the spectrum itself.My mother and I, meanwhile, were busyorganizing it by color and size.I have a vivid memory of watching my momtry to adjust Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.

