I decided I needed a coffee one afternoon while running errands. Astoria Pastry Shop is tucked away amidst some smaller shops in Belleair Bluffs. It took me one drive by and a u-turn to find it but I was glad I did! I sat outside in their small courtyard and enjoyed the solitude and sugar. Read More
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Barnie’s Coffee & Tea Co., Winter Park, FL
This was always the image I had in my head when I became a ‘writer.’ I’m sitting outside a nice coffee house. When I became a ‘writer,’ I would sit in casual coffee cafes and tea houses, smartly writing away. My fingers would be flying over the keyboard and other patrons would look over enviously Read More
5 Ways Show Your Love With Art
February is the month of love or the month of proving you love someone by spending a ton of money on one particular day on the calendar. Fancy dinners, boxes of chocolate, beautiful flowers, all these are wonderful…for a little while. By the end of the day, week or month all of those are usually Read More
Even Artists Have to do Inventory
One of my goals this year is to complete a total inventory of my artwork. That may sound easy to some, I mean how hard is it to keep up with a painting? Well, I actually have 317 paintings since the fall of 1995. Plus 4 paintings that have Limited Edition Prints. That’s another 125 Read More
Planning for 2018
This was part of my overall goals and priorities for 2018 (read the whole list here). I usually have some business goals and occasionally creative goals. Creating Continue to explore Art Resin Watercolor portraiture I don’t like setting hard numbers on creativity (ie. make 24 paintings this year) because, well, it stifles my creativity! Also Read More
2017 Annual Report
It’s that time of year to look over my business goals and accomplishment for the past year. I started off the year strong but adding a part-time job into my schedule in May slowed me down a bit. By fall I was back into full swing though! 2017 Charlotte B. DeMolay Artist Annual Report Creating Read More
The Good, the Bad, the Hopeful
As many of you saw last week, I was accepted into Arts in the Village Gallery. This gallery is run by a cooperative group of artists through the Loudoun Arts Council. It is located in a beautiful, newish shopping center at the edge of Leesburg along one of the main road. It is a beautiful Read More
Breaking Some Rules
The big reveal! No, it’s not a baby thing, it’s a website thing. I decided a month ago my website needed a new look. First, it was time. Trends change, my artwork has changed a bit, it was time to update. The second, and driving reason, was…I sell my artwork. What?!? You can buy all Read More
Feeling Empty…and it’s Wonderful!
I’m writing this post sitting outside on a deck at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. I have a cup of coffee beside me, everyone else is inside asleep and I am soooooo relaxed. I had thought this post would be about inspiration (and there may be one of those later), because a great deal of my Read More
The Seesaw: Attempting to Balance Life
Ah…that elusive word…Balance. The Holy Grail of our modern existence. We have to do so much, we want to do so much, we need to do so much. How do we balance it all? I headed back out into the workforce a few weeks ago. With the move, I lost all my students. I’ve explored teaching option here in Virginia and Read More