Balancing family and art

About juggling my role as both an artist and a parent of two little kids, and the challenges of working from home and raising a family.

An artist’s obligation

January 18, 2008  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 546  :  One Comment   
"An artist's obligation is to create and support his loved ones." — Yuri Gevorgian Yuroz Amen. Seriously, what else matters? It is too easy to get hung up on unimportant matters. I know that when my nose is to the grindstone, and I'm cranking ... Read More

hungry for your art

October 17, 2007  :  Balancing family and art, Being an Artist   :  Views 722  :  5 Comments   
What makes you hungry to make art? What conditions do you need to to be in to find enough fuel to fire your creativity? In his blog today, Wil Wheaton describes a friend of his who quit his well-paying job to start acting: ...he ... Read More

a benefit of working from home

September 24, 2007  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 717  :  5 Comments   
Working from home can be tough. Working for yourself can be tougher. It's hard not having an infrastructure to work within, guidelines that help you know what's expected of you. It's tough not having any co-workers, ... Read More

life as an artist/parent

June 30, 2007  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 1364  :  7 Comments   
My art group was recently talking about how having kids impact your art career, and Cynthia described it really well: "It requires discipline and a letting go of whatever idea that you have in your head about what being an artist is all about." Trying to ... Read More

a beautiful weed

June 11, 2007  :  Balancing family and art, Work in progress   :  Views 933  :  3 Comments   
My three-year old son present this flower to my wife as a present. It was such a sweet thing to do, I had to try to preserve it through a photograph. Looking it up online, I found that it is a crown-vetch, a plant often ... Read More

Thank you Charles Schulz

May 21, 2007  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 760  :  Add your Comment   
My nearly-3 year old just discovered Snoopy. He's known about the Peanuts for a while, but recently he really connected with the stories. We have several of the Peanuts' holiday specials on DVD, and he began watching them over and over (and over). Within a ... Read More

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

March 02, 2007  :  Balancing family and art, On Art and Artists   :  Views 964  :  2 Comments   
Today is the birthday of Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. As an artist, he is one of my heros. When people ask me which artists I have been influenced by, I look to people like Ted Geisel and Charles Schulz. Geisel was man who ... Read More

Jackson’s first digital drawing

February 13, 2006  :  Balancing family and art   :  Views 459  :  Add your Comment   
Jackson, who's 20 months old, often visits me in my studio during the day. Usually it is to play with my spinning chairs, or crawl under the shooting table. Lately, he's loved sitting on my lap and playing with the various pens and pencils I ... Read More