Purpose
This is a blog to both share my art, and to hopefully help others to create their own. I foresee that people looking for one don't care about the other, and that is fine. You do you!I am not going to limit myself to talk about specific art pieces or methods because that is not the whole story. Art is not an island in itself. There are issues that got me there, and I am going to talk about it. It is not just about what the painting is or what inspired it. Sometimes the reason that a subject is an inspiration is important, or why I am the kind of person to even consider it.
About Me
I do not identify myself on this site. The main reason is safety and security- I am a woman on the Internet. I get enough grief as it is. Not my first time at this rodeo.I identify as a crazy cat lady, despite not currently having a fur baby. My sweetheart passed away this winter and I don't know if I will ever be able to adopt another. I still consider myself her mother and best friend, and I miss her desperately.
I don't know if I can accurately call myself an artist. It is more accurate that I have spurts throughout my life that I create a fair amount of art, then cannot create anything for as long a a decade. Sometimes it is about guilt for taking time for myself- I have responsibilities! How can I spend time painting when I need to work, clean or repair the house, pay bills... well I assume all of you know what adulting entails.
However pain is the major reason I have trouble creating. I have debilitating chronic pain, so it is difficult to sit or stand still long enough to create art. My partner and I have set up a few ways for me to create laying down, but that is usually with minor art supplies like markers, crayons or graphite. And now I am suffering from a brain injury that is taking frustratingly long to recover from. These are some reasons why you will see long periods of time where I either don't create, or don't create anything of substance. The long gaps in years in my portfolio aren't because I don't want to share art from those periods- they are because I have nothing to share.
Emotional pain obviously is a factor. Chronic pain is a darkness that invades everything, but that is only the start. Life's been... interesting. That's not a good thing. Now the only creature who understood me is gone. She knew pain too, and we bonded over it. There is no light when my sunshine is gone. My little black heart is dead.
Privacy
All I aim to collect is visitor location data by state or country,* how visitors got to the site** and what specific things on the site are the most popular.***If you use the contact form to contact me, I will use that information to contact you back if necessary. That is it.
All said, this is Google Blogger's playground. I cannot speak for anything THEY will do with your data.
* For fun (neat!) and to help cater content to visitors
** For Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
*** What topics are people interested in so I should create more of that?