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The Internet Used To Be Fun - Remembering Early Social Media

My last post being about the misgivings of AI art, and this one now being a trip down memory lane to the beginnings of social media, it should be no surprise to readers that I am about to be closer to 40 than 30 with my birthday end of this month. As a socially anxious teen just starting to be proactive about actually sharing my art with the wider world, I may have a bit more warm nostalgia about…

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AI Is Making Surrealism Boring

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Photo To Fabric Collage Step-By-Step Demo

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New Art Discussion : Belonging

I had the opportunity end of last year to create a largescale piece of art for an animal themed show at one of the galleries where I teach. When the call was made, I already had a canvas prepped and had been planning to do something centered around a jungle scene anyway. I decided to take the original idea further and come up with a concept that would fit the upcoming exhibit. From the beginning…

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Happy New Year! Winter Watercolors And New Year's Day Thoughts

2023 was overall a fantastic year filled with enriching experiences, but the last quarter, typically my favorite part of each year, definitely roundhouse kicked me in the behind. I ended the year with pretty debilitating burnout, and was already begrudgingly dreading the middle-to-end of the NEXT year because, why would it be any different? I’m sitting here like a big dummy changing absolutely…

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An Artist's Take On Miyazaki's The Boy And The Heron

Though I’m a visual artist and not an actor, screenwriter, or animator I am a big movie enthusiast – I probably watch 4-6 movies per week! Every so often when I movie comes out that I find particularly inspiring or thought provoking, I like to share my take. Though I’ve enjoyed some films over the years that happen to be anime and in general find Japanese culture intriguing and enjoyable, I am…

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Breaking Free Of False Dichotomies

It’s interesting to see how this blog has changed since its early stages, the one constant being a celebration of creativity and self expression. At the start I was focused on sharing current artists I’d discovered, and easy lesson plan ideas. Now, I find more of the focus to be on the journey of living this life as a creative person, mental health, and authenticity. I like that what I share has…

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Fruits Series : Self Control / Mixed Media Surrealism

Part 3 of my Fruits of the Spirit series is here! Though I had the vision of untangling yarn from the very beginning of this piece’s conception, I had originally thought I would stitch the yarn through the canvas. I ended up just gluing instead because with the thickness of the yarn I wanted I was concerned about so many large holes ruining the integrity of the canvas and making it sag. I learn…

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What To Do When Your Brain Says "NOPE!"

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Barbie Is Amazing, A Confession.

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June 2023 Artsnacks Unboxing & Challenge

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May 2023 Artsnacks Unboxing & Challenge

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Fruits Series : Gentleness / Mixed Media Surrealism

A year later, I have finished the second installment of my Fruits Of The Spirit series, Gentleness. (Visit this link to view my first, Peace.) I certainly don’t plan to take an year to get to each installment of this 10 part series, but I spent 2022 dipping my toe into a lot of new things career-wise, and ultimately deciding what my personal goals were and how I wanted to go forward. I was also…

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April 2023 Artsnacks Unboxing & Challenge

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Happiest Places

Happy Spring, a time of new beginnings and new art! I had been working on this 3’x3′ piece since the beginning of the year, inspired by a photograph I took at the Japanese Cultural Center in town when I first moved to Saginaw. I used both metallic and traditional acrylics and fabric. Like my other mixed media landscapes, I chose colors that captured what I feel within the place I am painting, not…

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March 2023 Artsnacks Unboxing & Challenge

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February 2023 Artsnacks Unboxing and Challenge