I was listening to an artist that I follow on Instagram, Sarah Hand, talk about her work. Sarah is a master of papier mache, and she draw...

I'm dubbing 2021 the year of the snail. For one, the little mollusks have become quite popular as pets. They are slow. They are patient. ...

Thank you for following along here this year. I've so enjoyed reading your comments and sharing what I make. Whatever this season looks l...

Karen Abend is a very generous artist who runs Sketchbook Revival, a series of online, free art workshops, and she recently interviewed m...

2020 is a great year to talk about challenges. I'm the type of person who always wants to push ahead and try something new. It's not for ...

When I got an email from Rhonda at the Left Bank Gallery asking if I'd like to contribute anything to her upcoming show, Contagion, I tho...

After last week's elation, this week has been a little of a letdown. But it's not fair to ignore the enormity of the moment when Kamala H...

The sameness of this year has made the transitions all the more jarring. When the leaves started changing colors, I was surprised. There w...

Some weeks I need to do this, to keep a record of the things that ground me and make me look forward to certain parts of the day. Tea tim...

Despite the many reasons I don't like October, there's one big reason I do. Inktober. In the world of Instagram, this means using ink in ...

My dad has had this quote in his office for as long as I can remember. His office is in my parent's house, which means that I subliminall...

In college, I studied jewelry making. This happened in a roundabout way, after transferring from my first college and changing my major. ...

While I'm making things, I don't think about why I'm doing it. My hands move along, unaided by my heavy thoughts. I start off with a piec...

Here's a little video of my current sketchbook. As I say in the video, it's really a place for me to experiment and play around with idea...

When I first moved to the rural area where I live, I was astonished at all of the tiny roadside stands proclaiming "honor system." Usuall...

"We are made for pandemic life," my friend Maria said to me last time we talked. She's right. There are so many reasons we have to be gr...

I've been making more of these little books. This one feels very stark and simple, just like life right now.

Pandemic life has been both monotonous and circular. Obviously, we haven't stopped eating, but sometimes I go periods of time without thi...

Of all the words that have gone through my head in the last several months, hope is the one that I try to hold onto. It's become a little...