Basic rules for thinking like an artist

Here are 3 tools that create a necessary state during which a creative leap can happen.
Click on this link to my journey oracle blog to read more.   

Painting the Shaman Bird

 Here is a new drum with an interesting tale.
Click on this link for the story.

Inspired by the breath of whales

 A new drum that was inspired by listening to a humpback whale

 breathe next to our sailboat in the quiet dusk of evening.

Night Music drum: a story of echo

 

Who is the creature of this new drum?

It depends on the story I tell myself.

It is a story of echoes.

Two good questions

 

Have you graduated?

Why not be both?

Meet the Mystery in a drum

 

Usually when I am finishing a new drum, it is the full image that directs the meaning of the creatures, as they show themselves in relationship to the human drummer, or to other creatures on the painted surface.  But not this time.

Click on the new drum link to read the story. 

Why do I make drums?

 

Why do I make drums?

This post was inspired by the book, Start With Why, by Simon Sinek.
All the descriptions presented here are about
HOW I hold myself accountable
to WHY I make drums.
WHAT you see is my answer.

Are you happy here? A question for our times.

The 22nd dream painting based on guidance from the Journey Oracle. 
 A new painting but a very old question.

Click here to read some thoughts about an answer. 

Have we had enough? Are we making a choice?

 

Click here for images of dream painting #21,

and questions prompted by a dragonfly.

Gathering strength from animal spirits

The story of  a new frame drum with many animal spirits,

and some wisdom for these times. 

Art lessons from a spider

 

All of nature is so much more complex, upon second look.
Consider the spider.
Click on this link to read some art lessons
from a spider's web. 

Looking for change: making a new year's resolution come true

Click on this link to my new year's way of working that has an echo 

of a past change in art, and in life.