All posts in category Artists

Confections For The Soul

Sunday, February 24th My life is not always a cupcake, but I have to tell you, the last weekend at the Yuma Symposium was sweetness itself. The Thursday night review of upcoming workshops left me doubting there would be anything really special I could carry home. Oh my, how wrong I was. One workshop after [...]

Dive Deep Within

A lovely young woman wrote the other day telling me about her struggles with design. Like learning fabrication, design skills are acquired over time and take effort. And although the topic can certainly be complex and lead to confusion, the heart of great design is simplicity. So often I have seen people develop just one [...]

One Man’s Path to Becoming an Artist – Dore Capitani

Dore Capitani was just a bit of a kid when he wrote to his mom announcing one day he would be an artist. Much to his surprise, he became a building engineer, far from his original aspiration. To add to his disappointment, he did 29 years in an unhappy marriage before he launched himself to [...]