Art as a Spiritual Practice

Lent started a couple weeks ago. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s 40 days where Catholics (and I know for sure Lutheran, but I don’t know so much about other sects of Christianity), commemorate the 40 days Jesus was in the desert. We usually give up something (typically something diet

Daily Dragons of June Day 2

So, the theme of Day 2 of the Daily Dragons of June is “Fruit.” I didn’t have a particular idea in mind when I chose the theme, but as I was falling asleep last night, I was reminded of this uncanny coincidence that happened in my life last year. When I was living in Italy,

Does Art HAVE to Be Political?

In my research on how to make my own art blog better, I’ve been researching other art blogs. I found the ones that are the easiest to find seem to be groups and collaboratives of artists as opposed to independent individual artists, which is fine. I did find that many of these groups are involved

Lenten Project: Day 5: Finished Drawing

Welcome to my One Painting in Forty Days project. I haven’t been blogging every day, but I have been spending time on this every day. Welp. I got the drawing finished much more quickly than I anticipated. Hooray! Drawing on wood wasn’t really as daunting as I thought it would be. I kinda messed up though. I