The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company

This week I worked on some cards based on The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company paintings I did last year. One day I was thinking about peace as we all do sometimes and I wondered what would happen if we all wore the kind of hat Mahatma Gandhi once wore. Would we keep peace on the [...]

More on London Creativity Retreat

Just back from a week in beautiful Bar Harbor, Maine where we spent our days getting lost in the woods and our evenings sitting with a glass of wine and staring up at the stars. Feeling so much more relaxed and very happy to be back in the studio!
When we were away three more people [...]

Creativity Forum

A couple of weeks ago, through the magic of Twitter, I met writer and pr consultant, James Allen, who has an interesting company called Brewhouse Group in London. On his blog, he’s created a forum on the subject of creativity and invited artists and writers to contribute. He’s also posted some great links to other [...]

How To Start A Drawing Club Part Two

In Part One we looked at how to get a drawing club up and running— finding a space, setting a time, inviting a few folks over, committing to weekly meetings and getting the necessary supplies.
Next, we need to consider what we’ll do each week. First, if you’re leading the group you need to decide. If [...]

Good Focus

Hi! This has been a hugely busy time for me so very sorry for being an erratic correspondent. I like being busy and I’m so grateful to have the deep sense of purpose I now have. I was just speaking to Dear A about that tonight. We always eat dinner together and talk, often [...]

How To Start a Drawing Club

Mahatma Gandhi Art

Yes, this is Mahatma Gandhi! My friend, Maggie Stern, made him from clumps of felted wool. I don’t know how she did this except to say that I have seen her poke clumps of wool with a needle. Maggie is in our Saturday Morning Drawing Club in which we draw and make various experiments with [...]

Arsenal Center for the Arts / Open Studios

This weekend we’re having an Open Studios in Watertown/Belmont, MA for the first time. Watertown and Belmont are a stone’s throw from Cambridge and just 10 minutes from Boston, which may be why we who live in these towns have never bothered to do an art event of our own.  We’re small towns and very, [...]

Kids Again!

I gave a talk about my book, The Confident Creative, and led a drawing class yesterday at an adult education center. I was told beforehand that most of the folks who come to these morning talks are elderly but I was still a little surprised when the first man to arrive seemed to be at [...]

London Diary 4: Arshile Gorky and Agnes Magruder (aka Agnes Gorky Fielding)

This is the last of the London diary. I was there for a week to promote my book but now I’m back home in Boston and life here is taking over.  First,a couple of torrential rains left the basement flooded! Dear A took care of most of that but I did have to keep my [...]