The Pain & The Process of Making Art

Assemblage Supplies – Vintage Wooden Game Pieces

I’m a sucker for supplies. I have more supplies in my studio than I will ever use. And yet I continue to collect more. Because …

Well, I do, of course. I never seem to be able to do anything at the appropriate time or location. But, really, there is no …

Doodling is fun. Doodling monsters is awesome fun! A few years back, I committed to doodling a monster a day for an entire month. Well, …

My father grew up during the 1930’s Great Depression and the subsequent World War II years when it was common practice to collect trash metal …

As usual, I have many works in progress in my studio. My latest obsession, fairy houses, are well represented in the cluttered mass, as are …

My latest fairy cottage is finished. This one’s got a bark roof, stone walls, and two doors. I wonder who will live in there? Related …

I’ve completed my beach pebble fairy house, yay! As with seemingly every project I start, it took much longer to complete than I thought it …

Since my last post, Iâ€™ve made some good progress on my fairy house. I was able to make the roof from an armature of plastic …

Here’s what’s on my worktable: I’m creating fairy houses from stone. This one is created from rounded beach pebbles that I picked up on the …

For many artists, thinking up ideas can be hard. This is not one of my problems. My head is brimming full of ideas and I …