Life of a Full Time Artist

  • 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...

  • Week 11 - Is Less More?

    by Sharon Cranston
    “Anything simple always interests me.” — David Hockney _ One way an artist can develop "their look" is with a signature colour palette. A paint ...

  • Week 10 - Art is a Competitive Sport

    by Sharon Cranston
    As an artist, sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a competitive sport. A very creative and colourful sport, but a competition non the less. I fin...

  • Week 9 - Why do I Avoid Doing the Thing I Love?

    by Sharon Cranston
    Why do I Avoid Doing the Thing I Love? I love to paint, draw, create. So why do I avoid doing the thing I love? Why do I resist going into the st...

  • Week 8 - Indicate, don't state.

    by Sharon Cranston
    The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann Turns out my painting and I still had a ...

  • Week 7 - Are We Still Talking?

    by Sharon Cranston
    When your palette looks better than the painting...   I love my process of moving through a painting. The idea, sketching and blocking in, of gett...

  • Week 6 - Mini Me

    by Sharon Cranston
    Now that the gallery is up and running for the 2023 season, I'm on duty there each Saturday and Sunday. So, although working the gallery takes me a...