The New Year has begun and so have weekly sessions of life drawing. Drawing a live model is one of the most energizing ways to invigorate a drawing practice.

This one came to me in the comics one Sunday last month. It's one of Chad Carpenter's Tundra Comics.

The idea of going out on a limb was never before so clear as when I saw these Palm trees growing on the lawn of a home in Honolulu.

1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships...

You might wonder what a mermaid could possibly lament, but if, like many women, you enjoy a new pair of shoes, this painting is self-explanatory.

Join me every Tuesday morning at 11AM when I teach a FREE 30-minute Speed Watercolor Painting Class at Kuloko Arts Gallery at the Outrigger Reef on the Beach in Waikiki.

The Unclutter Your Life class that I took with Marilyn Nagelhas been over for about two weeks. I miss it. I miss the structured support of having someone remind me to toss something out, give something away, and donate something to an organization every week.

Last week I posted a heliconia painting in my eZine and asked readers to help me out with a title; more on the title next week. For now, I would like to share some memories from one of my students, Charlie Young.

First I must thank Scott Adams for the cartoon he published earlier this month. Brilliant! I am a sucker for cartoons pertaining to all things art/artist/creativity related. Humor, like creativity, is essential to life.

Creatures of Habit brought to mind thoughts of old Waikiki and new ways of creating an underwater reef using yarn and creativity.

I've been a fan of Christine Kane'sblog and eZine for about a year. On December 31, 2009, I worked an exercise she offered her readers: The Word of the Year Discovery Tool.