I’m now on day 35 of the 100 day project (I started 2 weeks early), and I’m learning sooooo much about myself. Where do I start . . . Initially this journey was about motivating myself to collage EVERY day after a long draught of creating almost nothing as I focused on my art biz. … Keep reading…
Near the end of COLLAGE JOY, several students wanted to know how I priced my artwork. So for those of you who asked, here you go! My goal is to price my art so that it sells soon after I launch it as a collection. I look for the “pricing sweet spot’“ where potential buyers … Keep reading…
My artwork continually wakes me up long after I sell it. And truthfully it’s the title of each collage that ends up being the teacher. Let me explain. I choose artwork to post to Instagram each day based on how it looks in my grid of top 9 posts. THEN I notice the title and am often … Keep reading…
I received so many gifts from my solo art beach retreat last week, and the most profound of them was the simplest to do, yet the hardest to sustain. Gazing at the ocean waves for many hours made me realize (again) how noisy my mind had become. When my monkey brain never shuts up, I … Keep reading…
The Fly Higher collection launched August 3 years ago, and this collage sold as soon as I opened the online doors. Based on the immediate response, I was very hopeful that the rest of the series would sell quickly. Yet by the end of the day, only 3 of the 25 piece collection was sold. … Keep reading…
If you followed my Mayo Clinic adventure on Instagram, you already know I was there being treated for a rare lung disease (chronicled in 5 IG posts, starting here). Although not life threatening, I just discovered that it will take about 18 months to heal, which includes 2+ hours every day of self-care/breathing exercises. Yikes. … Keep reading…
For over 12 years I traveled the US for my corporate job, dreaming of the day when I could become a full time artist a second time (full story here). I repeatedly asked the Universe (all 12 years) to make it “damn obvious” when would be the highest good time to quit. In 2018, I … Keep reading…
Since quitting my day gig to pursue art full time in 2018, I had been in a never-ending experimentation phase, searching for my artistic voice, not knowing when and if I was ever going to find “it”. As a result, before 2021 I had never launched more than one original art collection in a single … Keep reading…
After creating over 100 collages during March, and launching 33 of them as the PURE JOY collection in April, I jumped back into creating one-collage-a-day in May. HOWEVER, I got off to a bit of a rough start. As odd as it sounds, I suddenly couldn’t remember HOW to start a collage. So instead of … Keep reading…