If you’ve found your way here, chances are you care about making art. Or, at least you once did.

Maybe you still make work, but it feels disconnected or rushed.

Maybe teaching, deadlines, or responsibility have slowly crowded out the part of you that used to sit and really look.

Or maybe you haven’t picked up a pencil or brush in a long time, but the desire hasn’t gone away. It’s just been waiting quietly in the background.

You're in the right place.

Here's What This Site Is About

I'm a high school art teacher who rewrote his entire curriculum after nearly two decades. I pulled methods from classical atelier training—Bargue plates, proportion finding, value work—and adapted them for people who aren't going to art school. Because these skills belong to anyone willing to do the work.

And now I'm doing the same thing: applying those methods to my own practice, and documenting that process. What I'm learning. What's working. What isn't.

Some of it is technical, like drawing exercises, value studies, how I'm sequencing things. Some of it is about the harder question: how do you stay engaged with creative work when life keeps crowding it out?

All of it is honest.

If You're Brand New, Start Here

• Starting Again Without Starting Over
  I got back to fundamentals and why it changed everything.

• What I Mean by "Atelier-Inspired" (and What I Don't)
  The methods I use and what I'm not claiming.

Beyond those two posts, the Journal is where my ongoing reflections live. New entries show up when there's something real to share.

Want to know when something new goes up? Join the list—it's quiet and infrequent, and you can leave anytime.

This site isn't asking you to keep up, commit, or prove anything.

If something here nudges you back toward your own work, that's enough.

Sometimes the most radical thing you can do is slow down and begin again—carefully.

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Making Your Way