V In Everything

Category: art

  • Trinkets

    I had a delightful time a few days ago sketching and painting these trinkets. The original plan was to create a sticker sheet with these but I also like the idea of carving linocuts and making a shirt collaged with these.

  • Botanical Obsession

    Botanical Obsession

    As the weather turned warmer, I naturally became obsessed with plants again and have been painting them pretty much to the exclusion of all else. Here are a few of my recent paintings in watercolor! All of these I painted from my own reference photographs. The hydrangeas especially took forever because I was really focusing…

  • Collages, 1

    Collages, 1

  • Adventures in Unemployment, Part II

    Adventures in Unemployment, Part II

    In this, my third period of unemployment in as many years, it has finally occurred to me that I haven’t shared one of my favorite paintings that I have done last year. It’s called Adventures in Unemployment, Part II. When I was unemployed for the second time (thus, “Part II”) it was summer and I…

  • The Work Is Not Done Until It’s Out in Public

    I’ve been thinking about all of my unfinished projects lately. They’ve been weighing on me for many years now. For some, I’ve been able to let go, for others they are still sitting there waiting for me to finish them. I find that this is also the case for projects that I have finished making…

  • Let It Go

    Since I started taking painting more seriously at the beginning of last year I have felt a creeping anxiety about taking my art to the next level. Not necessarily skill-wise, though there is that too, but more in the “become a professional artist” sort of a way. All signs (books, articles, blog posts, videos, etc)…

  • The Nature of Creativity and Originality in Art

    I often worry that I’m not very creative. I don’t really come up with out of the box ideas or with anything genuinely novel. I do like making things that are artistic though, which colloquially falls under the “creative person” umbrella. But I don’t think I really do anything new or unique. The thing that…

  • Me (2025)

    While researching open calls and artist opportunities online, I stumbled upon the Fabric Workshop and Museum. It’s located in Philadelphia and having read a bit about it, I vaguely recall seeing it from the street, considering its proximity to Reading Terminal Markets, and wanting to visit, but have not yet done so. In any case,…

  • Crafting a Better World book review

    Crafting a Better World book review

    I originally wrote this post this past summer when I was fully on my craftivism kick. At the time I couldn’t be bothered to look up the actual name of the book or the author or take a photo of the library’s copy of the book so this post languished. I finally have done all…

  • Research Motivation: Poetic Web

    I had the day off today and as I sat in my studio painting, I listened to some videos in the background, a few of which dealt with how to do self-guided learning. One of the steps is to identify your research motivation. Why are you interested in studying this topic? Considering how many interests…