Oh… how long I’ve been meaning to write here. It’s been a strange and unusual year — Hmmm…. maybe we all can say that? Yet for me it’s been a year of unusual uncertainty, especially in my studio. That’s wholly unfamiliar terrain for me. Which is what made it so damn...
musings from the studio and beyond ~
dawn chandler’s reflections on art and life. . . .
studio practices
the very large triptych, part 6 ~ new studio & first strokes
The most dreaded phase of this whole Very Large Triptych project involved zero skill or creativity. It required planning, patience, hefting and heaving. That dreaded phase? Swapping my living room with my studio. Why bother? I needed to be able to step away from the...
the BOOM! and enchantments of boring painting
I've been thinking a lot lately about the idea of boring and being bored. One definition of boring I came across described it as "the state of feeling weary because one is unoccupied." [OED] That kind of weariness is something I've rarely experienced in my adulthood....
on the margins of life with MAD magazine & me . . . .
I adore treasure hunts. Invite me to an Easter egg hunt and I devolve into a tunnel-visioned child, giddy with anticipation of finding pastel-colored treats hidden in flower beds. I adore advent calendars and lockets and old-school CrackerJacks for the treasures...
creating 60 paintings in 30 days and other bad ideas
Back in September — because evidently planning to be away for a month on a 4000+-mile road-trip wasn't time consuming enough — I decided to set a challenge for myself of creating 60 paintings in 30 days. Lots of artists do this sort of thing from time to time,...