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In 2012, I did a painting-a-day exercise to get the wheels of creativity rolling—one hundred days, one hundred paintings. Some paintings were successful, others not so much. I am ready to go at it again. I won’t make any promises as to how many days I will keep this up or guarantee that I will…

[blockquote]Sometimes a plate is a lake on a table full of hills where the rivers roll over folds.[/blockquote]

I am not sure I have ever had as much fun painting. This is the first time I have had a painting studio—a place of my own where I feel so free to make messes, to embrace failure, to get out of the way of myself. I spent the first couple of months in the…

For the  past six months I have been beating myself up about being a still life painter. I tried hard to paint landscapes, to find a way to express the beauty I see in nature, but I was miserable and even worse my paintings were. There is something in the mass of things, and the…