I love an end of the year reflection post. I also love a song lyric that feels so relevant to a moment in time it’s as if the lyricist wrote it just for me (thank you Jack Johnson, circa 2005). So, here I am at the end of 2024—sitting, waiting, wishing only good things for…
Tag: creativity
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Last fall, I looked around my room and thought: wow, I really have a lot of completed works of art. There were canvases standing against almost every available wall; double and triple layered in some places. My notebook was full of finished sketches of places I had traveled. Oil paintings were carefully drying out on…
Book Review: Seven Days in the Art World
One must not be an art aficionado to know that making art is only one stroke of the intricately complicated masterpiece of the modern art world. Art has inherent value from the moment a piece is started; even if that work is never shown to the public. However, when the oeuvre of an artist does…
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Today, my first solo art show opens. That is crazy to me considering that I wasn’t consciously trying to make art a core part of my career until last fall. One year ago, I was transitioning out of full-time employment into an adventure of full-time creative work. That change came from an intentional shift to…
L.M.Beatty 