On New Year’s Eve, I wrote a grand list of resolutions and goals in my journal. lose weight purge, organize, and deep clean my house and then repeat build a list of monthly writing prompts and actually use them more quality time with my kids host a brunch every other …
In a series on Good Ideas, Our Flirtations with Them, and Our Commitments to Them. Today, the discussion is a bit dark and rather scary. I want to talk about failure, because it has a very important place in a series on Good Ideas. The creative life simply does not …
You can’t be on a college campus or a city street for too long before you pass a utility pole or pipe like one of these. They are street art billboards and artifacts – vestiges of the aspirations and siren songs of hopeful DJs, artists, and activists, layered one upon …
Lunches are lined up on the counter, and the smells of coffee and toast waft around the kitchen until they collide in the hallway with bright notes of sharpened pencils, fresh packs of paper, and new shoes, all bundled and packaged neatly at the front door. The kids willingly went …
This painting was done in a series of experiments with acrylic glazes. I love the layers, texture and shine that they allow. As is typical for my “work” (really more like “play”), I just made shapes and found out what they looked like toward the end of the process. At …
Focus on Yes Part 3 of A Good Idea is (Not) Hard to Find In the past couple articles, we’ve established that there are lots of good ideas out there, and that many of us have them, all of the time. We’ve also established that despite this, it can be …
Part 2 of A Good Idea is (Not) Hard to Find So yes, I fall fast and hard for good ideas, and can be rather obsessive about them… lots of daydreaming and the like. The trouble is, once it seems like I’m moving toward something a bit more long term, …
Part One – Flirting She was a Terrible Flirt’ by Amy Abshier* I am a flirt. Well, I was a flirt in my mix and mingle single days, before I met someone who grabbed my attention and has kept it for a long time. So, no, I don’t bat …
Gala and the Glow paintings are acrylic on board and canvas respectively. I especially like how the marks and lines in the Glow series have a primary connection to paintbrush and paint. Gala Gala detail Glow Glow Detail Glow Blue Glow Blue Detail
The Cleveland Trunk is a submission I made some years ago to a fundraiser for the world renown Cleveland Orchestra. Area artists were each given an original steamer trunk, and asked to design them for auction. My trunk came to me a work of art already, covered in a patina …
