Back in the Studio

Back in the studio after a few weeks designing websites—my new art site—www.catbennettart.com and a new site for my book (The Confident Creative / Drawing to Free the Hand and Mind)—www.theconfidentcreative.com.  It has made my head spin a bit, have to say. But now they’re up, still works in progress, of course, but you can [...]

Book Making

I spent the whole of today with my head stuck in  the computer as I march to the finish line designing my book.  It’s great fun but last week was even more fun as I went around Boston collecting art from various artists, some of whom I met by chance, others of whom were recommended.  [...]

Thank You, Leonard Cohen

Last night Leonard Cohen played to a packed house at the beautiful old Wang Center in Boston and we were so very blessed to be there.  It’s hard to put into words the ways in which his very artfully constructed concert and presence brought tears to our eyes.  The music was brilliant—every single musician absolutely [...]

The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company

The four paintings for The Mahatma Gandhi Hat Company series that was shown in March at the Arsenal Center for the Arts here in Watertown, MA have been photographed and the jpegs arrived today.  Thanks to photographer, Mark Peterson, for his invaluable help!
My idea for the paintings is that if we all wore a Mahatma [...]

Happy Day to the Artist Mother

At the Saturday morning drawing class Maggie, mother of four boys, presented me with this beautiful hand-stitched broach, a portrait of me she made from a blind contour drawing.  I’m so very touched by this gift and think I’ll frame it so I can see it every day  as it’s so full of life and [...]

Happy To Say…

I‘m very happy to say that my book, The Saturday Morning Drawing Club Manual, will be published by Findhorn Press in Spring 2010. Findhorn is a wonderful publisher interested in ideas about consciousness and social change. Books about art and creativity are new for them but I think it’s a great fit [...]

Drawing Class

On this cold, rainy day it seemed fitting to do another cloud collage.  I’m experimenting doing some with colored backgrounds now but I love how it was possible to just use scraps of other pieces of painted paper, cut them up and make them into these little collages.  Each person with their own little cloud [...]