Gouache Sketchbook Tour!
All the paintings I made during July while trying to learn this new medium
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Creative ways to combine parenting, art-making, and the writing life.
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Why you should (mostly) take your own photo references
On building a visual library from your own world and interests
Finding the comfort and confidence to speak
Or: what adds up to "voice" in our work
What, exactly, is a parent's job?
The ideal of the happy child, and how values-oriented parenting works against this being a goal in itself
Tips for bringing oil and soft pastels into your everyday art practice
Yes, even outside!
On Letting Something Die
Setting aside a 10-year project and making way for new things to come
Unboxing and Swatching A. Gallo Watercolors
So, anyone who has been here a while knows that I love to paint and that I love to try art supplies.
Go ahead, get the quality thing! (Or: cool, reusable pens)
and some things you can do with them
gender dysphoria, reproductive parenting and mixing paint
or, you know: "spring break"
Buy Buy Art Supply
The naïve hope that the Next New Thing will be what helps us level up (and what really does)
slow painting, spring springing
come paint with me while I tell you about my new series
The relationship between expectations and constraints
Know your limitations so you can adjust what you expect to be able to do
Compositions that cross the line
Why is it so pleasurable to make and look at work that traverses the sketchbook gutter?
Falling in love with process
A video about using a multi-step gesso kit and oil painting on paper
How I've been painting (in oils!)
while also keeping up with everything else
Studies, Stickers, Sketchbooks
Making an education through copies
How can you make art?
A little bit at a time
Two sketchbooks, four years apart
Watch now | What has changed and what has stayed the same
Supplies in full color
How I learned to love a much-raved-about art supply that for years had left me cold
Stop playing it safe
Five strategies for learning to take risks in creative work (and figuring out what a risk even is)