Title: Draw & Sketch
Location: Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
Description: Meet up with other artists (any age, medium, and talent welcome) for a morning of free drawing. Gather inspiration for new artwork to take back to the studio or simply come out and sketch with a group of people. This is a FREE event. Meet [...]

Title: Draw & Sketch
Location: Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
Description: Meet up with other artists (any age, medium, and talent welcome) for a morning of free drawing. Gather inspiration for new artwork to take back to the studio or simply come out and sketch with a group of people. This is a FREE event. Meet [...]

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This new piece of art is a perfect emblem of a January morning (with a December sky). I am not, by nature, an early riser. However, I can, when needed, get up at the crack of dawn, without a frown or complain. [...]

This simple children’s art project uses recycled products to teach children about birds.

Wimpy, full of pink, and lacking in character is exactly how this canvas art piece started. There is a beautiful magazine clipping that I’ve had for years – tropical pink background, soft creamy pink bowl, filled with exotic purple, pink, and yellow flowers. That was the inspiration, the starting point for this mixed media canvas. [...]

An earlier blog entry draft simply disappeared. And perhaps that is best. When something doesn’t feel right, doesn’t feel like it fits, it’s time to step back, walk away.
I am, in the beginning of this year, more unsure of where to step lightly next that I find myself wavering, on a single foot, balancing over [...]

The first drawing of the year brings me back to my initial love: child art! This pastel art work was all about the possibility of childhood and the daring view of seeing the world for the first time, with all it’s possibilities, regardless of the initial surroundings.

From initial quick sketch…to something more substantial…

to a more [...]

Note: Thursday is Art Business day. Every week we will focus on a business idea that is helpful to an artist.
Last week (due to the nearness of January 1st) we focused on calendars as a side product or byproduct of your artwork. But a longer term product line that can be easily constructed is along [...]

Note: Tuesday is Art Planning day. Every Tuesday we will publish an entry geared towards planning, whether it be an art project or a business venture.
In the last entry, we focused on coming up with big, overall themes for your “year of drawings.” Now it’s time to start fine tuning the details, in preparation for [...]

Note: Thursday is Art Business day. Every week we will focus on a business idea that is helpful to an artist.
When thinking about what kind of products to incorporate your art into, the idea of themes really comes in handy. Having a line of similar-themed artwork can easily be placed in a line of greeting [...]