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When you think of how to display art, your first thought is probably immediately: in a frame, behind glass. If you have a work on canvas or cradled board, maybe you can hang it directly on a nail. But if you have a collection of small original art, prints, postcards, or family photos, you could use a display like this to show off a lot in a little space:   View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jen Roberts - Artist (@late_blooming_art) Think outside the frame when you display art!

Why hello again, Friday! Thank god it's the end of the week! Unfortunately, I don't have much progress to report again this week. See last week here. Usually I get a lot of art-ing done on the weekends, but last weekend I took an intensive class that was intended to build a business and website in 48 hours. That...turned out to be an extreme oversimplification, to say the least. With as much copy writing as we had to do (it was taught by a copywriter, so there was an emphasis on that), most of the class was only able to...

I'm back after skipping a week while I was out of town. Due to my trip, I accomplished little that's interesting over the last two weeks. I only kept up with my 100 Days Project, although I did miss a couple days on my trip, and did more plein air (outdoor) painting than usual. (Catch up on 2 weeks ago here.) I'm fully halfway through my 100 Days of Watercolor Monochrome project. I'm excited to be moving onto another page of my dot card, and hopefully getting to change away from the warm red/yellow/orange colors I've been with for over 50 days....

“Buy fewer, better works of art. Buy the best you can afford. Take your time. There is no art emergency.” — Liz Klein (art adviser) I came across this quote as I was reading an older New York Times article about how to buy art. It took me a minute to pull my eyebrows back down to their normal spot after seeing the prices thrown around (tens of thousands & millions of dollars?!?!), but once I recovered I just had to share this quote with you. Because it's so, so true! Please take this advice to heart: there will never be an art...

Once again, I actually accomplished quite a lot since last week's writing, but it's hard to remember it all today. I've slept since then so I've forgotten everything! On Sunday I finally--FINALLY!--took the mat cutter out of the box it's been in for over 6 months, put it together, practiced with scrap mat, and used it to make my very first custom mat! It was quite a process! Despite using the written instructions and watching tutorial videos, I got frustrated at multiple points. And there's more math than I was expecting, for calculating where to cut. I'm not convinced yet...