As I was making Protective Instinct, a piece about sheltering our children from all the dangers in the world, I felt like the darkness was surrounding me and wanted to make a piece to combat those feelings. While I may…
At two, my daughter developed strong opinions about what she wanted to wear. The brighter the better! Now, at three-and-a-half, she still loves to mix patterns and colors. I wanted to capture her unique style in a piece, so I…
In my last blog post, I started explaining how my art piece about the instinct to protect our children came to life. In that post, you can read all about the inspiration and how I created the quilt with layers…
As a parent, especially of young children, my instinct is to keep them safe - to shelter them from everything. My kids are one and a half and three and a half. I don't want them to know there are…
One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in being a mother is guilt. It comes from so many different sources every day and it's exhausting. When I thought about how to depict this ubiquitous, and sometimes conflicting guilt for my parenthood series,…
When I decided to create art about my life as a mother, the first thing that came to mind was the feeling of being torn between these two worlds. My first design for this piece (shown below) was two separate…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm starting a series about life as a parent and an artist. I started three different pieces during a week long workshop with Sandra Sider in late September and finally finished one of them.…
Following the recent presidential election with its hateful language and outpouring of intolerance, I felt like I needed to create a piece of art to process all of my feelings about it. My first instinct was to create a piece…
If you know me or follow my blog, it is no secret that I have been creating less art since my daughter was born three years ago and even less in the last year since my son was born. Over…
Earlier this week, I worked with the three and four-year-olds at Kol Ami in White Plains. Click here to see pictures of them making art about the days of Creation. Once they were done composing the art work about each…