Artist's Real Life

  • Want to be moved this weekend?

    by Mimi Schlichter
    "It takes a village." We've heard it so many times it's become a bit trite. It certainly takes a community. In this instance, a community of mus...

  • Home for the (Highfield) Holidays 2022

    by Mimi Schlichter
    Home for the (Highfield) Holidays, 2022.  Oh, what a joyful treat! From the moment you walk in the front door, you are enveloped in visual scenes r...

  • Closure. Finally. Maybe. November 26, 2022

    by Mimi Schlichter
      It was five months ago, to this date, I said my final goodbye to the house at 345 WFH. Kinda. It was my move out date, anyway. The date I left t...

  • Never say never...

    by Mimi Schlichter
    Art advisors will say "never, ever discount your paintings." Me thinks those advisors never had storage considerations, i.e. lots of inventory in t...

  • Self-imposed - self-released

    by Mimi Schlichter
    The March Project.  It sounded like a good idea on March 1, and it was.  Until it wasn't. It was a self-imposed discipline.  I needed some structur...

  • Changing perspective

    by Mimi Schlichter
    Change your perspective. Change your view. Not to worry.  I am not making a political statement. I am talking about art.  About today, walking to a...

  • It's not about that

    by Mimi Schlichter
    I walked into a shop today, a place where I worked several years ago, the place I fantasize as my backup escape plan to try to go back to if I deci...

  • Short and sweet

    by Mimi Schlichter
    It's Friday.  Stop.  Take an extra, calm, breath.  Or two.  Or ten. The world is ... challenging. To say the least. The world is ... still full of ...

  • Anticipating nostalgia

    by Mimi Schlichter
    Nostalgia: a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. How is it th...

  • Binoculars, please

    by Mimi Schlichter
    My former mother in law was an amateur birdwatcher. She was also fascinated by people. And she had this theory that if you ever wanted to get a clo...

  • Hole in the Sky

    by Mimi Schlichter
    When I began my daily blog commitment on March 1, it was with the intention of writing about some of my old paintings, with the hope it would inspi...

  • Tea time

    by Mimi Schlichter
    I need to write my blogposts earlier in the day.  When I will til 8:30 at night, like right now, I'm thinking I would much rather sit down with a c...