LDREINHART art studio

Happy New Years to you!  I’m a bit late but that’s on purpose – I didn’t want to get lost in all your other New Year’s Day emails and I wanted to make sure you got all settled in to this new year, so you’d have time to chat.

So, I gotta know, do you have a bunch of new year’s resolutions setup and started? 

I do for sure. 

Ya know, I was told one of the best ways of helping yourself accomplish more goals is to make them public.  Public could mean – telling your spouse, your closest friends or it co...

I recently completed a portrait painting that I felt was one of my best figurative works yet.  What makes it really moments for me is have painted very few figurative works in the past 10 or 15 years. I have been pondering whether to get back into this type of work and if I did how to do it.  You see, I have been creating a name for myself with my other works and for me to just do a random painting of a figure would be really odd.  I was thinking I would privately paint 6-8 images and then when...

Guess what I did over the weekend.  It wasn’t fun.  It wasn’t glamorous. 

I cleaned my studio!

Big deal right? Well it’s fairly easy to keep things tidy but it is another thing to clean it. Everything gets wiped down, dusted, put back into place, vacuumed, etc.  It’s a big job that usually takes a few hours – I have 100 square feet to worry about so yes, a few hours IS a longtime.

As I was cleaning, as usual, my mind was wandering and so I thought I would sit down fo...

Recently I have been asked to tell the story of my art. That is not a simple question. That is a hard question. I think a lot of artists have a path they travel as a creative person. This path is based on or influenced by things that have happened in their lives. So many times, it seems artists choose something traumatic to influence their work. It usually does make for good stories to express their creativity with, so I guess this might be a good thing. In addition, they could use their creativ...