Welcome to my first blog!

I have procrastinated and avoided ever making a blog. I would much rather spend my time painting in studio than writing about myself or sharing about some wisdom I gained in whatever. However, time and time again I am told that my website is missing a blog and those younger than myself keep telling me that it is what people want and not to mention the internet geniuses tel me that I must.  Still I avoided it. Not because I think they are wrong but because I have a hard time writing about myself when there is art to be done. But then comes my students, who I care very much about, say to me time and time again, "I've never heard that before" or "No one has ever put it like that".  Time and time again I get more students because they tell others that my teaching is different from the traditional classes they have taken.  Now this is not to say that I'm an amazing person or that I am an inspirational guru of some type.  I decided to write a blog simply on the basis that I love to teach art. Because many are led astray as to what art really is.  I write this blog on the off chance that someone might hit it by accident and maybe learn something that maybe would inspire them to create from themselves than to follow a discipline of have-tos that makes art more work than freedom.