The New Year Has Begun

January is already half over so I guess 2023 is well underway (at time of me actually getting around to publishing this, the year is half over). My plan was to have my new website up and running by the beginning of this year but totally revamping my website has proven to be more time consuming than originally thought. The truth is anything to do with my art business, including the admin has been pretty much on hold since September when we decided to get a golden doodle puppy!

Zoe

What a sweetheart she is and so good, but oh man did it ever mess with our routine.

My intention is to post here once a week about what’s been going on in my studio as a way to document for myself my trials and tribulations and ultimately my progress and as a way to look back. I plan to talk about what I’m working on, my successes, my failures, my experiments, my discoveries, the podcasts and books I’m currently listening to and everything in between. This journal is first and foremost intended for myself but I thought it might be of some interest to some other artists and/or art buyers as well. I know for myself I am very interested in what’s going on in the minds of other artists and I find so few are willing to share it with the public. Although, thanks to social media this is starting to change, however I find that most of social media only shows the best of things…this is not that! I will be documenting the good and the bad.

In February I plan to take an oil and cold wax figurative course put on by Melinda Cootsona. I’m super excited and have wanted to take this class since it came out. Melinda is a fabulous artist and a wonderful teacher. I have had the privilege of taking two previous courses from her and I loved them both. This however is the first one dealing with cold wax. The fact is that there just isn’t that many cold wax courses out there to take so for her in particular to be putting on this class is so exciting and I feel so blessed to be able to attend.

HAPPY PAINTING!