Jen

Here’s the second batch of sponsor paintings (you can see the first batch here). I sent all the sponsor paintings this weekend. I miss them already.  This project was such a good exercise for me. I had to work quickly, I had to develop new ideas (often variations on a theme) regularly, and I had […]

One of the unexpected perks of my vacation is that I broke my biggest bad habit: mindlessly watching TV every evening.  During my month off, I watched almost no television (well, okay, I did watch the first two episodes of Season Two of “Downton Abbey”). For four weeks, instead of watching TV each night, I

One of the benefits of taking an extended vacation was that I could spread my sightseeing out over days, giving me ample time to just sit and paint. Every day, I’d go out and visit museums or markets or walk along the coast, and every afternoon, I’d return to my apartment and paint. It became

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they
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