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 [...]

Pirate Radio Rocks and We Can Too!

Well, it’s only taken a year for us to get around to seeing this and, hey, it was more than worth the wait! In our favor, there was a long queue on Netflix—we did order it ages ago. Not in our favor—think of all those months in which we didn’t have this lusciousness coursing through [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

London Diary 1

I’m just back from 9 days in London where I gave a drawing class for the press to promote my book. It was great fun and amazing to see what people can do when they approach drawing with an open mind. But mostly I’m thrilled when I see the great, positive energy that’s created [...]

Exhibition Extraordinaire!

No sooner did I get back from London than I attended the most fabulous exhibition featuring 2 of my students who are also dear friends now, Maureen Cook and Maggie Stern, as well as the brilliant photography of another dear friend, Mark Peterson. (To see the whole of Mark’s show click on link then on [...]

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 [...]