Life of a Full Time Artist

  • Week 24 - Reboot - Reset

    by Sharon Cranston

    How do I reboot my artistic consciousness? By doing something just for me.

    Art has become my path in life. I guess It's my "calling". It's probably a good thing as I'm hopeless with numbers and languages. Numbers get switched up in my head. I'm ok if I can see them, but don't tell me your phone number... my brain will reel. Which leads me to a funny story of a job I once had as a 911 operator in Barrie, ON... another time perhaps. All I can say is... Barrie is a safer place now.

    Anyway, what's one of the things I do to reboot, reset?

  • Week 23 - Painting with your Head and your Heart

    by Sharon Cranston
    Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel. Unknown What is the breakthrough point for an Artist? I guess it's different for ev...

  • Week 21 - Keeping On, Keeping On... Motivation

    by Sharon Cranston
    No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake Motivation How do I keep motivated? By changing things up from time to time,...

  • Week 20 - Painting with Knives

    by Sharon Cranston
    Favourites Favourites are another word for comfortable, easy, and stress free. You know what you're gonna get. That's great, but it can also hold y...

  • Week 19 - Time on my Hands

    by Sharon Cranston
    Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx OMG Why is it the older I get, the faster time flies? I remember when I was a k...

  • Week 18 - Lifelong Learning

    by Sharon Cranston
    Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin If there is a finish line, I've never found it. Lifelo...

  • Week 17 - Home Sweet Studio

    by Sharon Cranston
    Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott. . Travel can Ignite Change I've often heard ...

  • Week 16 - Art away from Art

    by Sharon Cranston
    Including art in your travels is a no-brainer. I’m not talking about big studio canvases of rolling landscapes, I’m talking about little, “amuse bo...

  • Week 15 - Packing Up and Heading Out.

    by Sharon Cranston
    The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson. ...

  • Week 14 - Where my Art At?

    by Sharon Cranston
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun” ― Pablo Picasso . Art...

  • Week 13 - Off to a Creative Start

    by Sharon Cranston
    I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean . Where does one start, what's the...

  • Week 12 - Stepping Away from Reality

    by Sharon Cranston
    In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain _ We are rolling into my least favourite time of year...