An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

 To be alone at your desk or in your studio is not enough. You have to free yourself from the phantoms and inner critics who pursue you wher...

Thinking too much about painting is perhaps a little like reading about your car’s engine. It may be interesting enough, but it isn’t gettin...

  “The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it,   not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to not...

 The astonishment is all in the being here. It is the turtle in the pond, the thought in the mind, the falling star, the stranger on Main St...

You're braver than you believe,  stronger than you seem,  and smarter than you think.  (AA Milne) The cabin, as the summer moves along, ...

  Ability comes from the doing.   And in the meantime drawing is solely for our own pleasure. You will slowly feel its warming effect on yo...

  And yet I know that hope is not a default, it is a choice, it is daily intention and action. Writing a better story is not a given, it is ...

It was a lovely weather day on Saturday for the Urban Sketchers to gather at Wingra Boats on Lake Wingra.  Very festive...lots of families c...

Today was a sketching opportunity day.  It was, first off, a lovely June day in the low 80s with tons of sunshine.  No storms heading our wa...

View of Mush Gush Island toward the north end of Lake Tippecanoe wc in sketchbook The 9 days at the cabin over Memorial Day were not the bes...

May 14th in Julie's garden in Madison, WI Her garden in early spring is to die for.   Really...I can't paint fast enough. These are ...

My Mother's Day gift is a surprise! Julie took this photo right after I opened the amazing gift card to a local art store here in Madiso...

Walking through the 9 acre woods here at Oakwood brings just the tinges of the first spring flowers and mother goose on her nest in our pond...

What's up in March and early April?  I  can't believe I haven't posted in an age or two.  Sorry about that.  Let's catch up:...