A Belated Fall
This past Fall my daughters and I took our annual trip to the local pumpkin patch. Visiting the farm always includes a fun day shucking corn, running in the hay maze, and picking...
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Strange Confirmations
Teaching was never part of the plan when I first set my professional goals, however, after instructing an observational drawing course at the Art Institute I discovered an unexpected passion. The satisfaction I receive...
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The Voice and Me
Steven Pressfield defines resistance in his book “The War of Art” as the thing that stands between the life we live and the unlived life with in us. Pressfield personifies resistance by explaining...
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Sleep Paralysis
Do you ever have your best ideas just before you fall asleep? If you are like me, and find yourself regularly crawling out of bed to jot down that great thought or idea,...
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Recycling Doors
Finding clever and unique ways to represent your art is not always an easy chore. However, using found objects and recycled materials can add to the personality of your work and give you an...
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How I Paint (Sometimes)
Over the past week I took a few photos of my latest painting at different stages of development. Ideally, I should have used a better camera and taken the time to get...
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Standing Brooms and Gravitational Pulls
Over the past few days Facebook was flooded with pictures of standing brooms. This aberration was supposedly due to the planets aligning, gravitational pulls, and deadly solar flares ready to consume the earth. However, upon...
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The Art of Promotion
One of my goals for 2012 is to develop a brand. One that enables me to work for clients who are looking for the kind of art I want to produce. I know...
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Studio Tour
I love to see other artists studios. Seeing the space in which artists create has always been interesting to me. I feel that viewing someones studio tells a lot about the craftsman. While...
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College Visit in Sterling, Kansas
While on my way to Kansas last month my GPS decided to have a complete mental break down. Its probably never a good idea to rely solely on a navigation system, especially one...
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The Treasure
I promised a final look at my thesis paintings so here you go … (Thesis excerpt) When deciding on a thesis topic for the Hartford MFA program, I knew right away that I wanted...
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Torrit Grey: A testimony of the Hartford Art Schools MFA program
For the past several months my life has been an emotional roller coaster. I have experienced everything from the high of hearing that Nicole is pregnant, to the low, after the unexpected...
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