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Art and Creativity Journal: Routine Busy Work

Trying to get a bit of momentum going, I spent much of the day doing some routine "busy work" relating to getting ready for fall show season. It's not

Art and Creativity Journal: More Newly Finished Work

Sometimes, you just have to forge ahead regardless of whether you feel like it or not. So, today I made myself go to work on finishing another batch of stones that

Art and Creativity Journal: New Work... Finished

Finally managed to put a finish coat on painted stones from earlier in the spring, resulting in what I guess we would call new inventory even though it is kind of

Art and Creativity Journal: Updates Are Time Consuming!

Trying to stay true to my word (to myself), I spent some time today working on social media updates. Specifically, I was responding to a request from Patreon to

Art and Creativity Journal: Work Resumes!

Well, we have arrived at the second half of the year 2026, and even though calendars are a pretty arbitrary thing it seems like a good reason to resume creative

The wooden bowl : Hymru

hymru /ˈhəm.ru/ n. Etymology: Native Nivukti. Retains its old, un-eroded form. Definition: A shallow, rectangular trencher carved from dense hardwood or could be

Art and Creativity Journal: Beach Tripping

Last week, we finally got away for a trip to the "big" beach, out on Washington's Pacific coast. These trips to the Pacific coast matter because the stones

Art and Creativity Journal: "Big" Beach Trip Upcoming!

Although I have sporadically mentioned that I could really use some high quality stones to paint on — stones that are better than what we can find here on our local

Art and Creativity Journal: Events Falling Into Place

Although my creativity hasn't been anything to write home about lately, a few peripheral things are falling into place. Specifically, our outside events schedule

Art and Creativity Journal: June Gloom in May

Greetings, from the creative doldrums of my mind! The climate around here usually provides us with something we call the "June Gloom." It has something

Art and Creativity Journal: Questioning My Assumptions

Lately, I have not been feeling very creative. Each time I have sat down in an attempt to start painting something, I've gotten back up after about 5 minutes and

Art and Creativity Journal: Things Work... Until They Don't

So, I managed to make it 13 weeks into my good intentions of making a weekly post of creative work from the previous week. And then things pretty much fell apart.

Art and Creativity Journal: Spring Beach Combing

Since it was a really nice spring day today, and my general level of motivation felt somewhere close to zero, I decided the best way to spend the day was to take

Art and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Thirteen, 2026

Continuing on, building my 2026 "Work Catalog." To recap: these are simple photos of the stones just painted during the preceding week, shown in

Art and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Twelve, 2026

After a bit of a pause, I'm getting back to creating this 2026 "Work Catalog." To recap: these are simple photos of the stones just painted during the

Art and Creativity Journal: Some Weeks Are Better Than Others!

Normally, Monday is a reserved for the weekly update on the work I managed to do in the course of the previous seven days. That is to say, the painting work I did.

Art and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Ten, 2026

Week ten turned out to be the least productive — at least from a painting perspective — week of the year, so far. Mostly, my only "creative" endeavors

Art and Creativity Journal: Wear and Touch-Ups

The thing about objects that are meant to be picked up — and used as meditation stones or something similar — is that they invariably end up getting picked up! When

Art and Creativity Journal: Last Week I Painted — Week Nine, 2026

Week nine turned out to be a moderately good week, creativity wise. That said, most of my time was actually spent transferring inventory to Etsy and working on creating

Art and Creativity Journal: "Cleaning House" is a Lot of Work!

Undertaking major changes, whether it is to your life, or to a process within that life is often more work than we originally think. As I have written about before,