The Fire Eater

Every year a carnival traveled to our little town for the Harvest Festival held at the end of October, and there was always a Fire Eater. 

Grandma Kat’s Halloween Kittens

On the very edge of town there was a lovely little cottage that had been there for as long as anyone could remember.
It was home to an old woman and her array of cats, all of which stayed near as possible to her property and never seemed to cause any trouble.

The Girl on the Wooded Path

There was an old wooded path not far from my childhood home that led to a small family cemetery. Any descendants of the people buried there were long gone, but someone must have been paying a groundskeeper to maintain it.

A Tale of Two Paintings

In this blog post I talk about my experimentation with painting watercolors on wood using Daniel Smith's Watercolor ground. I also cover the creative process of conceptualizing these two classic literature based fantasy illustrations, and my general experience with this ‘new to me’ technique. My subjects were Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia, and Titania, the faerie queen from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

When Creativity Feels Like Pushing a Boulder Up a Mountain

First off, encountering creative blocks and resistance is normal. No one can create all day every day their entire life without hitting snags.

Second, that resistance is probably trying to tell you something, and if you stubbornly try to push past it or repeatedly throw yourself against that wall without taking a moment to assess your situation, you’re gonna have a bad time.

I am speaking from my own experience, of course.