Working in a series means more than creating final work. It means investigation, variation, stretching, looking, again and again.
Read Morelook again
then look again
Small art
for tiny moments
Using bits of time
One way to make mess-free art when all you have is a tiny space and little time.
Read MoreSketchbook dreams
After a day in the studio, moving furniture and supplies, starting new work, I sat down, tired, with my sketchbook and some old supplies:
catch ideas
The creative mind sprouts ideas like a plant sprouts leaves. The artist must simultaneously play plant and gardener.
Art is like a garden. Keep it growing. Prune to prevent legginess. Reach wildly. Seek structure to support growth. Sink your roots. Drink deep from inspiration. Fertilize wisely.
Pull up the weeds. Give away what’s dusty. Scribble during the smallest scraps of time to scribble. You might be surprised what your sketchbook has to say.