by Christine | Feb 8, 2022 | Studio |
As an artist, sometimes I get blocked. Ideas just won’t come. Or I can’t seem to draw or paint. Or, I finish what you think is a great piece, but, looking at it again: I hate it. There are all kinds of reasons for dry seasons as an artist. For me, it has been stress,...
by Christine | Nov 13, 2021 | Studio |
We have just come through a very tough year. Even though ‘quarantine’ is behind us, many of us—me included—are still a little paralyzed. After all, how do you go through a whole year plus of running out of binges to watch, not having gyms to thin out our growing...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2021 | Studio |
There’s one thing that really bugs me at Halloween time: the dreadful lack of anatomically-correct skulls. As a forensic artist, I know skulls. I am getting to know them better every day. I know when a skull looks natural, and when it doesn’t. And sometimes, I...
by Christine | Oct 19, 2021 | Studio |
It’s no secret that this world is going a bit crazy. One YouTuber I follow calls it Clownworld. I kind of like that, because clowns are a little scary, too. One symptom of Clownworld is a teetering economy. With money worries come scams. I had a couple of interesting...
by Christine | Oct 2, 2021 | Studio |
When I was little, I loved horror movies. Creature Double Feature on Sundays was my favorite. The opening title showed grizzled, dead hand moved over the show’s logo, and I waited with anticipation to know which classic horror movie was playing that day: Abbott and...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2021 | Studio |
I can’t say I had a bad childhood. It was actually pretty great. The ‘going to school and getting bullied’ part was bad, but even that made me grow up to be the spicy, straightforward person I am today. Mostly, I don’t care what people think. But it didn’t always used...
