Monthly Music Mix: January 2018

I love listening to music! I still do the old school thing of making mixed CD's as gifts for people because I feel music is very empowering to the soul. They're like spells in the sense that if you resonate with the music the words and melody can transform your mood. Music, to me, is …

How to Deal With Negative Influences

For anyone, regardless of being a creative person or not, has experienced the self doubt and anxiety of life due to the people around them. It can become increasingly hard for others to discern which side to lean on the most, while forgetting that in order to stand up. You need to be standing up …

The “Talentless” Veil of Illusion

One of the thing's that always comes to mind when creativity is involved is the social stigma around being creative. What is creativity? Why is creativity frowned upon? What's so wrong with expressing yourself and your ideas that might lead to something great? There are a lot of creative people in this world and people …

Tutorial! Makeup Brush Cleaner Recipe

It's almost Christmas and the holiday's have me being more productive than ever. So in the spirit of giving, I wanted to share with you a recipe to make brush cleaner for your personal use. Whether you're a professional makeup artist or just someone who loves wearing makeup! History Behind the Brush Cleaner STORY TIME! …

Learning to De-Stress as an Artist

One of things I feel doesn't get promoted or encouraged enough with artist is the importance to not stress yourself out. We live in a very high strung society with pressure coming left and right! Whether it's in person, through social media or the heavy bricks we place on ourselves. I'd like to open up …

Product Review: PanPastel

I wanted to share one of my favorite new art products to work it. I don't think I have ever been this thrilled about a medium since getting the Finetec gold mica watercolor set. So what's so special about this? For starters, can we say low dust residue and cleaner workspace? Let me show you …

Playing Catch Up With Needles & Hooks!

I got hit with a late case of 'Spring Cleaning' this past week and seemed to keep getting deviated from actually working on some of my backlog of work. The energies been very hazy for me lately and it's been a super struggle to power through things, but cleaning was helping me feel more energized …

Artistic Blocks

I think there's a point in everyone's life, not just an artist, people in general. When you feel like things have come to a standstill. You're suddenly going, "What do I want to do? Who do I want to be? Am I supposed to be here?" Followed by running yourself ragged trying to hold onto …

Day 1: Color Portrait

So to really kick start this art blog, I decided that doing a 30 Day challenge would be something good to hone my skills with original work. For the start the challenge was to do a self portrait. Trying to capture myself in all of my new hair color glory was interesting. Mostly because I …

Fresh Start

To start off fresh, even though it's July... I wanted to transfer my progress work on projects as well as share art resources. My mind tends to get overgrown with ideas and I need a decent visual headspace to place them instead of letting them just collect in an idea book. So welcome to my …