This weekend was a rare occasion where both of my girls were busy and my husband and I were free to do whatever we wanted. We’re both artists and wanted to go out and do something creative. He wanted to paint and I wanted to photograph flowers so we settled on heading over to Untermyer […]
Artist Date – Summer in the City
An Artist Date as described by Julia Cameron – author of The Artist’s Way is “a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore. something that interests you. The Artist Date need not be overtly. “artistic” — think mischief more than mastery. “ For this week’s date I took my exploration into the city (Manhattan) . For some people […]
Artist Date – Flower Photography – Wave Hill in July
This week I started reading the book The Artist’s Way. Whoa! I’m loving it so far! I’ll do a whole separate post on that book but in the meantime the book suggests that we make a weekly commitment to an artist date. This is something you do by yourself to get the creative juices flowing. […]
How Photo Critiques Can Help You Grow As An Artist
This is a reminder about putting yourself out there. Recently I participated in a photo critique at B&H Photo in NYC. I was in a room of over 40 other photographers as part of the Portfolio Development Program we are all participating in. We were asked to bring in 3 recent photos to be critiqued […]
You’re Never Too Old To Start Something New
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.– Asa Hutchinson I had a desire for some time now but never really voiced it to anyone. It’s been on my vision board as well as in my mind. I’m not even sure where this desire […]