January 2025

It has been a different kind of

New Year

I got sick, got the flu, and then couldn’t really recuperate at my expected pace. Sickness hit when l as I was planning to map out my year of work and even in the bigger picture, my trajectory as a mother and an artist. What a fascinating lesson. The tasks that sat undone while I went back to bed, and back to bed, and back to bed looked different when my energy began creeping back. Instead of just tackling all the to-dos, I wondered, what of these things is really essential? Why did I put them on my list in the first place?

And the thing that is helping me fee most normal, most encouraged is the simple act of picking up a paint brush. I am picking it up though it seems like the last thing I “should” be doing and many other tasks press. I am picking it up though I have many fears about making bad art, and even bigger fears about making poor life decisions with my energy and my capacity.

How helpful to have something as true and useful as a paint brush. I am sending one to you with a little description of how it might help you when you with focus and starting a difficult task. And I am sending it with a new little brush stroke painting entitled “The Rise of an Idea.”

ALSO: Print Club just turned 4!! I have done so much reflecting on how this project has served me creatively and connected me with so many people in a very physical way. To celebrate,

I am giving away this painting.

I’ll be raffling off the original painting behind this month’s print, letting my son pull a name out of a cup at random on February 5th, 2025. Anyone subscribed will be eligible to win this little painting, fully framed and ready to hang. Thank you to every single person who has participated in Print Club. You have become a close friend and creative ally in the process.

-Liz