When I started my little business 4 years ago, I never in a million years thought I’d be in this position. I thought I would always be scraping by and trying to make ends meet with my art. But I had a vision, and I never quite knew where that vision would lead. I had hopes and dreams and I tried as hard as I could. And then one day I woke up and realized that I had too much…
Last week I felt like I needed to get away. I had a moment where I put my head down and just let myself dream. And when I did that, I thought of a fairy, and the forest, and what I could do with that inspiration. Soon it morphed into something entirely different, and I found myself, about one hour later, flinging my body onto a rock in the middle of a creek. And all of this is wonderful –…
The constant hustle of the industry. The constant nagging to be more. The competition and comparisons and the way self-worth turns into public perception. Wouldn’t it be better for our craft if we didn’t focus on such absurd intangibles? The push to be better, try harder, and find more busy work is deafening. It will break us if we try to lift that responsibility. There is no glory in creating and becoming for the sake of creating more and becoming…
This picture felt very personal to me because of how I felt as though I was creating a scene from my dreams. How often I think of getting lost in a forest of purple leaves. And then to create this video felt like pure magic for me – a visual representation of that space coming to life, with music that I wish I could walk around to constantly in my life. And in fact, since putting this video together, I…
Part of my business is made up of licensing images to various people, things like album art and book covers, and I absolutely love that part of it – I get to create what I love and then hope that someone else likes it enough to buy it. Sounds pretty simple, and in execution, it isn’t too hard. But of course, as with all things in the arts, it is about getting your work in front of the right people….