Developing a play ethic.

I can hardly believe it’s been ten days since I last updated–time’s gone so quickly.
In that time, I’ve been playing with collage. I have a stack of postcards upon which I’ve made simple mosaic-like patterns from cut-up magazine photos. (And I’ll say this: Real Simple is the most boring lifestyle magazine in existence, but it’s full [...]

Creating–and excavating.

Once again I’m stuck waiting for paint to dry, so I might as well blog.
I went a little crazy with collage in my journal last night. After sketching in a quick self-portrait from memory, I began gluing in a background of various-sized circles in bright colors. Then I did a bit of simple stamping. And [...]

Bubbling over.

I need to drink more Champagne. It must be done for the sake of art.
For the last couple of days, I’ve been carving rubber stamps. I’ve already finished about a dozen of them, in various sizes. Some I’ve mounted on small blocks of wood, but I’ve also made a bunch of smaller round ones sized specifically to be mounted [...]

Oh, the places I’ll go…

I believe in simple, easily-kept New Year’s resolutions. Why make a conscious decision to to do something horrible and depressingly necessary at the beginning of each year when you could do something fun and pleasurable instead? It’s not as if you don’t have 364 other days to beat yourself up for being fat, broke, and/or out-of-shape. New Year’s resolutions should be about [...]

Should-ing all over myself.

I confess I didn’t paint anything on the 6th, but for the last two days I’ve been back at it and today I’m working on a couple more things. I thought I might as well update while waiting for paint to dry.
Last night, while gluing bits of colored paper into my journal, I decided that [...]

Kick-starting myself

So now that I’ve managed to get past my favorite procrastinatory tactic (endlessly getting ready to paint without actually doing any painting), I’ve painted something every day for the last four days.
Four days isn’t much, I admit. If I’m still painting every day four months from now I’ll have done something a bit more brag-worthy (and maybe [...]

Getting started…or not.

Way back in art school, my biggest creative hurdle was figuring out what to paint. I was 18, then 19 years old, a kid from the suburbs who had never had to do much thinking about life, or why the world worked the way it did. When it came to pure technical skill I was precocious, but despite all my bad [...]

Is this thing on?

Back on December 8, I created a blog over at Blogger in order to write about getting my creative life in order. The holidays and all their attendant craziness came and went, and somewhere between December 8 and today I forgot the login details for that Blogger account. All attempts to log in and finally [...]