Posts by Lisa Sinicki
My 2025 art practice
2025 was a good art making year for me. It didn’t feel like it as the year progressed because there were stretches where I didn’t make any art at all. But when I went to review what I’d made since January, my pile-o-art was fairly tall. Yay! It was a year of painting while I…
Read MoreWhen the automatic light turns off too soon
Juicing again
Free Range Brain
Naming my Substack newsletter
Naming my Substack newsletter was a painful process. I considered dozens of options and then had to overthink each and every one before moving on. This chart illustrates the process. (It doesn’t contain every option I evaluated, but it will give you a good idea what I did.
Read MoreIrish Inspiration 2025
Paintings from our trip to Ireland this spring. I challenged myself to paint what I felt, rather than what I saw. . .
Read MoreExperience into art: Ireland
I thought you might like to see how various experiences and photos get translated into art. We visited Ireland in 2019. The paintings and sketches were completed between then and 2024. The cow we caught pressed up against the barbed wire — making eyes through the fence at a cow in the next pasture. The…
Read MoreThe up side of wearing a mask (4-panel)
Worth every penny
Lindsey, my sixteen-year old daughter, waved a pair of jeans at me. Their extremely wide bellbottom legs whipped back and forth like a surrender flag. “You should try these on,” she said. We were at Free People, one of Lindsey’s favorite stores. Our official goal was to find a pair of nice jeans. Not for…
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