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Where to direct my creative energies now?
I've always been a collector of future projects. Everything, simply everything, looked like it might be fun to do something with down the...

Stephanie Barrow
Jan 23, 20203 min read
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When to quit and when to commit to not quitting
My commitment to do 356 doodles (drawings or paintings) in a year is not the first time I’ve done such a thing. Well it is the biggest...

Stephanie Barrow
Jan 14, 20204 min read
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Time management
I love the way art has most always been a spontaneous response to life for me - a way of of thinking about things, dreaming about things,...

Stephanie Barrow
Jan 7, 20202 min read
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The space in between
You'd think after this many years painting, I would be somewhat settled about the coming and going of the creative impulse. Still, when...

Stephanie Barrow
Dec 30, 20192 min read
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The many gifts of art
It's Christmas morning, 2019, and it's also Wednesday, the day I promised there would be a new blog post by every week. The convergence...

Stephanie Barrow
Dec 26, 20192 min read
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Shifting through changes, making choices (in art and life)
There have been intense changes in my life over the last couple of years. At the other side of some of more difficult ones, I can see...

Stephanie Barrow
Dec 17, 20194 min read
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Doodlely do
Last April, I made a commitment to doodle, draw or paint everyday for a year just to see what would happen. I was trying to give myself...

Stephanie Barrow
Dec 5, 20193 min read
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How Vandoodle came to be
It started in April of 2019 with a desire to shift my attention away from what had been a difficult year and choose joy instead. Really,...

Stephanie Barrow
Nov 30, 20191 min read
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