 If you have been following my social media, you know these past few months have been filled with activity. I have been painting and teaching, teaching and bartending, doing inventory, cleaning, and teaching again. I have been doing time-lapses of the paintings for my own socials, and for Pinot’s Palette - just for the fun of it. So my own work (for now) has been taking somewhat of a back seat, just until I get more of a hang of this new schedule. Not that I haven’t been painting pet portraits, but some have yet to be given to the owners, so I won’t be able to reveal them to the masses until later this year.
 Since my last big live show in 2023, I have been trying to manage the complexity of the combination of burnout, perimenopause, and ADHD. Luckily, the remedy for all three, at least for a while, seemed to be the same: rest.
 2025 was a year of exploration. A year of rediscovering my inner and outer artist. My musical artist remaining in the background for now, I embarked on the journey of the painter, the visual artist, the very first artistic path I pursued. Finally free of the binds of what other people think of me, I felt I could at long last truly uncover my potential as a painter and let her unfold.
 I always enjoy deep conversation. Lately, the topic of AI seems to hum everywhere. Most are baffled at how fast things are happening. How quickly the AI is getting better.
As musicians and artists, we often talk about how many of our former opportunities are disappearing due to the ease of use of AI. We easily foresee human-written jingles, movie or television programming cues (those are the little bits of music that appear underneath the storyline), making the humans, who formerly based a great deal of their income on having these unique skills, obsolete.  When I was a little girl, I loved horses. I would ride whenever I got the chance. I even helped train and break them in for riding. I volunteered at stables and the local riding school just to be close to them. Our family could never afford to own one (or even co-own one). I participated in 4H and learned everything I could about these magnificent creatures. And since I am also drawn to the arts, even as a child, I would draw horse after horse, as anatomically correctly as I possibly could.
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