NANCY'S ART AND CREATIVITY BLOG

For many artists, including me, dreams can have a powerful and direct influence on the work we create.

Sometimes bone-chilling cold can create beautiful patterns of ice and snow.

If you want to experience some truly magical morning and evening light, visit the Texas Hill Country.

This is the first in what I hope will be a series exploring people of Native descent in both contemporary and traditional settings.

Every artist gets ideas for new works in different ways. Some allow their dreams to lead the creative process. Others look to Nature for new

I ran across such a scene one July morning in rural Colorado. The sun cast a beautiful glow around a field of ranch horses.

In this painting, I tried to bring out the bold, rich colors of these horses along with their fire, energy, and personalities.

the real basis for your work making it into an art show is the quality of the work itself, and that's what I want to talk about today.

Are you an artist who's been baffled about how to get your work juried or invited into art shows?

The idea for this piece came to me as I awoke from a dream. It was just there, in my mind's eye, finished.

I'm feeling artistically restless, which usually signals some kind of creative or stylistic evolution for me.

We could hear horses snorting and jostling each other on the far side of the trees.