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Writings about my creative process, new artworks, and more.
Eager for Spring to Arrive? Spring Poppies are Here
I love the California winter, known here as the rainy season, but by the time Spring actually arrives, I’m so ready for it. My “Spring is Coming Poppy Meadow” acrylic painting is a celebration of what I know is just around the corner for California.
A New Perspective from a New Studio
At the beginning of the month, my husband and I became the proud occupiers of Studio E at the School of Visual Philosophy. “Studio E” makes me think of Sheila E and Prince from the 1980s and so every time I say it, I feel like I’ve been enveloped in a cloak of cool awesomeness. What’s the word for “cool” now? “Lit” I think. This whole situation is lit…
Gala of a Good Time at SVP Opening
On Saturday, January 26, 2019, my husband and I joined a long line of people waiting to gain entry into the Opening Gala for the School of Visual Philosophy. Passersby expressed surprise at the size of the crowd, with speculation overheard as people wondered what band...
Five Inspiring Mug Designs
Yesterday, I hit the button to activate a Julie Bovee Art Zazzle store that I'd been occasionally working on. A big sale they were having on mugs got me off the fence. Sometimes they have fantastic sales - the downside being that they send an awful lot of emails...
Money. Do You Have a Passive Income Source?
Money. Do you think about it? Sure you do, everyone does. We just don't often talk about it because we're told it's not polite or some other brainwashing gunk as a child. (I think of that sort of programming in my head as gunk that I need to wash away.) I have a...
Three Fields of Flowers With More Coming
A vibrant, abstract background, with bright, cheerful flowers reaching up toward the colorful blue sky - this is the series I've been working on: Fields of Flowers. I currently have three completed pieces with at least two more in the pipeline. The first, Field of...