Do remember your first paintbrush? What about those paint-with-water books that had the watercolor pigments already printed on the pages? When I was three years old, I loved sloshing water across the top of them and watching the colors mix. I was even more excited when my grandmother bought me my first set of watercolor […]

Think back to your high school art classes. Do you remember needing special erasures and pencils? What about painting aprons? Did you ever have to buy extra ceramic clay from the teacher or pay for an expensive glaze that you really wanted to use on your pottery? Supplies for creating arts and crafts can be […]

How many writers or would-be writers do you know? A brief search online shows that 80-90% of people want to write a book. Many of them probably have great ideas for books, even if they never get to the writing part. The U.S. book publishing industry is a $26.23 billion business. That’s a lot of […]

Do you remember doodling during high school? Back in the day before computers were so ubiquitous, us older people sometimes used the covers of our notebooks, the margins of their papers, and sometimes even their desks. I’m guessing younger generations have drawing applications on their devices, so who needs paper? While it might only seem […]

My office is filled with artwork. An acrylic painting of a stormy shore hangs in one corner. Beautiful original watercolor landscapes in frames sit on my desk and hang over it. On hard days, I close my eyes and imagine I’m rowing across one of the lakes, or walking through the rain in another picture, […]