Inspiration

Choosing From The Heart (Video Interview)

Oct 31, 2017

I recently had the pleasure to sit down for a chat with the lovely Amy Maricle of Mindful Art Studio.  We talked about fear, resistance, and choosing to live and create from the heart — stuff I’m certainly passionate about and so is Amy.

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Immersion Painting

Oct 27, 2017

In late August / early September I hosted my annual IGNITE Immersion in Camano Island, Washington. It was an incredible experience and I even got to sneak in some painting while I was there. The best part was painting side-by-side with my beloved IGNITE artists.

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As Artists, We Don’t Know

Aug 16, 2017

One of the first art teaching jobs I ever had was as an Art Educator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I was 19 years old, a freshman in art school, and one Summer my assignment was to teach the “parents class”. In other words I had to keep a group of moms and dads who didn’t want to drive-home-and-then-turn-around-again to pick up their kiddos from art class busy. I, like all the other teachers, didn’t want to teach this damn class. Everyone knew that these folks were there to simply past the time.  Very few of them were interested…

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