Before I was a full-time artist I was a writer for places like the NYTimes and NBC. Did you know that? It was a blessing I didn’t appreciate at the time. 😂 (Like most of my blessings!) One of the things I wrote about was relationships, including a five-year stint writing about friendship. That I got paid for that gig…
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This I Believe Podcast Popularity
It is amazing what God has done with my “This I Believe” essay. Today I came across a podcast listing, where my recorded essay is listed as the 3rd most popular on This I Believe, which is incredible given the amount of celebrities on the site! Mine is just ahead of John McCain’s. (What! 😳) This essay has been taught…
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Flashback Friday Sketches
#FF Sketches from when I was a kid. Subject matter was still girls and birds. 😂 Back then I begged for the big box of crayons (64, with the sharpener on the back!) and would rejoice anytime I could get my hands on watercolors. I worked a lot with pencil on paper, because it’s all I had. Eventually I got…
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Art Show International Finalist
I’m excited to announce that my painting “Bohemian Girl” has received a finalist award in the Art Show International Gallery’s most recent art competition “4th COLOR.” The theme of this international juried art competition is COLOR. As humans, we see the narrowest range of wavelengths of the vast electromagnetic spectrum that lies in front of our eyes. But even that…
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Some Roads on the Farm/Art Tour
Got to see my poem “Some Roads” painted on roadside signs along the Farm/Art Tour in Sauk County. What a beautiful day to view the Wisconsin countryside. Farm Art Tour from Cherie Burbach on Vimeo.