Self Portrait of My Inner CriticInk and Wash It happens to all of us. We get excited about a new adventure and out of no where, or so it seems, comes this voice to tell us how we're not good enough or smart enough. It questions who we think we are to think that we could ever undertake such a feat, let alone...

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Making Mistakes Are you willing to fail in your art attempts? Are you willing to make bad art* in order to learn to make better art with the hope of eventually making good, or even brilliant art? *Definition of bad art - art that is filled with so-called mistakes or inaccuracies. Most of us are scared to death someone is going to confront...

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But I won't be getting one any time soon. It seems that d-o-g has become the equivalent of a four-letter word in our household. The situation has become an absolute killjoy. So instead of To help mitigate soon of my annoyance and aggravation about the situation, I decided that I would get a dog and it would be ALL mine without outside influence—or interference....

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