Just Kids

I just  finished reading Patti Smith’s memoir.  It’s the story of the very early days of her adult life when she was exploring her devotion to writing and art with a fervor that had a lot of flair to it.
The story takes off when Patti leaves a factory job in Camden, N.J. and heads into [...]

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 [...]

New Year Launched!

It’s a brand new year and we got to celebrate with wonderful friends!  2009 was very hard for so many people around the world.  We are mindful of that, especially having just seen the brilliant film, Up in the Air, in which George Clooney fires people for a living.  There’s something wrong with our current [...]

Changes Coming

Even when you think a book is done, as I did, it turns out there’s something else that needs checking.  In the case of my little book, The Confident Creative, my own confidence has been shattered—at least in terms of proofreading.  It turns out that I am an absolutely dismal proofreader and the first proofs [...]

Bell Tower Artist Talks

The art show at Bell Tower Place in Watertown was great fun.  Wonderful new connections were made between artists and art patrons and we got to show our work in the beautiful condo spaces created by Karnig Ostayan and his team in the old church at the corner of Mt Auburn Street and School Street.  [...]

Bell Tower Art Show

Two weeks ago I had no idea that I was organizing a huge art show but—here we are!  Somehow we’ve gathered 12 wonderful artists together and mounted a show in 2 giant condos that have been carved out of an old church. The opening is tonight!  The way it all came about is that [...]

Bon Voyage!

I sent my book off to the publisher yesterday via the web.  Word today that it has arrived safely.  The publisher has just landed in LA, from France, and will be talking to his publicist in a day or two about how to promote it.  He’s already sent it on to her.  It was such [...]

Art Happening

My very first day back at the studio, after returning from holiday, I was asked to put together an art show for one of the art center’s trustees who is a real estate agent.  He thought it would be fun, and I agree, to host an art show in a church which has been converted [...]

Lift Your Spirits UP!

This, on You Tube, via my new friend and wondrous artist, Meghann Brideau.  The point is to feel good and this should do it—
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxnWsFbRJq4

Harvest Time

All I’ve done in the last couple of months on this blog is blather on about my book on drawing and creativity, as if it were the only thing in the world!  It’s not the only thing I’ve been up to, I must say, and, of course, not the only thing the world has been [...]