Out of the Gutter Art

Painting My Heart Out

Woo Hoo ! I am an artist WHIRLWIND again! Hang on, cause art is flowing out of me in a […]

THE BEHINDER I GET How true, how true that Pennsylvania Dutch saying is. I squander my art endeavors, rushing from […]

One just can’t help getting one’s hopes up when entering shows. You read the call, you think “Wow! Piece of […]

recognizing my BIPOLAR self image I’m in “Wonderland” right now. Been here for a week or so. Time seems to […]

"...running to the window, still asleep, she fell thru the glass with a crash..."

‘Progress, not perfection.’ Who said that? I hate you, whoever you are. Because I…WANT…PERFECTION!

I eat a lot of my art. Great flow, free strokes, endless imagination…stuffed in my spare bedroom. “What spare bedroom?” […]

I should have taken photography classes. I dearly love the medium, and in this day and age I am happy […]

Stuck in the Barnyard “OLD McDONALD HAD A COMMISSION…Oh no, Oh no, Oh no……”

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Running full tilt thru each day leaves no time for reckoning no time to breathe or…

My Dad had many facets. If I only saw the ones that shined like diamonds…is that so wrong? I spent […]

Does it matter to an art collector what the artist was experiencing in her mind at the moment a work […]

"He bandaged my broken hands that had beaten down my own hopes..."

"...I was a rebel...not knowing thousands of feet had gone down that same road days...months...centuries before..."

Who Was I Then? Am I Now? Who Will I Become? I know that we change, it is a natural […]

I have to get the mix just right: a smidgen of anxiety, a pinch of hunger, a good dose of […]