An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

  So summer came and went with alacrity this year...streaming by in a myriad of images from here in Madison to up north at the cabin. Back a...

 " Way beyond pretty pictures, cool techniques, gripping stories, or fancy footwork, artists make art that’s worth spending time with b...

  Graduation By Ginny Stiles To graduate is to arrange in a series or according to a scale. “The stones were graduated in height from th...

The end of March draws near.  It's truly been a month that I have almost lost in terms of time.  I've done many things...we've b...

“Teach the children… Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks a...

One day last month friends here at Oakwood had  a " Paint Like Klimt" afternoon.  A crazy group decided to look at some of Gustav...

The Sycamore Tree Series continues.   These three will close out the series for the year 2022. The month of November in Wisconsin was filled...

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 a...

  October and it's time for INKTOBER. It is supposed to be done one day at a time through October.  But since I had Covid in September I...

 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...