self portrait « on becoming an artist

self portrait of a quitter

You know one of the things I love about being an adult? There are so many to choose from, but lately I’m grateful for the choice I have not to finish. Yup, I’m celebrating the joys of giving up. Of quitting before the end. Of looking up and realizing I’m doing something that is not [...]

looking at you looking at me

The artist’s self-portrait isn’t strictly a matter of ego or even of introspection. Often it’s simply a matter of convenience. As more than one of my drawing teachers has said: if you have a mirror, you have a model. I guess the photographic equivalent would be: if you have a tripod, you have a model. [...]

Becky's bookshelf: read

Shakespeare Wrote for Money

by Nick Hornby

I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...

Wonder

by R.J. Palacio

I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...