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The Iris Blooms
Over the weekend, I participated in my first Maypole Dance. I think only half of it may have been woven properly. It was frantic and...

Loveday Funck
Apr 25, 20225 min read


Follow the Wind
As the sky gently shifted from darkness to light, I began to set up at a local market. The weather was warm but a gentle breeze blew...

Loveday Funck
Mar 7, 20223 min read


Is it Time to Create our Own Stories?
(25% of all sales of my Bloom Where You're Planted artwork for the next month will go directly to the Voices of Children Foundation in...

Loveday Funck
Feb 28, 20223 min read


Why the Side Hustle? Or, Was your Cat Royalty in a Past Life?
Customize your pet here I try to stay positive, optimistic, and hopeful. Time and again, I've been willing to believe that the worst is...

Loveday Funck
Jan 10, 20222 min read


Should We Treat Artists as if They Are Real People with Feelings?
On the Saturday night of Luna Fete, the weather turned cold and rainy. Not many people remained to watch the show or to explore the...

Loveday Funck
Dec 27, 20212 min read


Is Frida Kahlo a Great Artist?
What makes an artist great? I was scrolling through google recently an article title leaped out at me: "Why Frida Kahlo Still Isn’t a...

Loveday Funck
Dec 6, 20212 min read


Feel the Energy Of Louis Wain
As a lover of Victorian ephemera and cats, I discovered Louis Wain many years ago. At that time, information on his life was hard to...

Loveday Funck
Nov 29, 20212 min read


Believe in the Possibility of You
I dreamt last night that I needed to go back to school, starting with an Alice in Wonderland Theater Class. Of course, from my initial...

Loveday Funck
Nov 23, 20212 min read


How to Pick a GOOD ART Event from a BAD ART Event
The emphasis here is on the event being good or bad, not on the art. As the veteran of a hundred odd art events, I've learned a bit about...

Loveday Funck
Nov 16, 20213 min read


Who are you?
Somehow this feels a little bit like cheating but I couldn't quite get my head around the topic for the week: Preference. In Victorian...

Loveday Funck
Jan 16, 20215 min read


Forgotten Love: When I veer in strange new directions and talk Sex and the City
I am going off in a strange direction for me: talking pop culture. While I was working on this week's card, I reflected on "Forgotten...

Loveday Funck
Jan 12, 20214 min read


Imposter Syndrome
2020 was a long hard road of a year. I am very much pleased to see it receding into the distance as we move with cautious optimism into...

Loveday Funck
Jan 5, 20213 min read


Pushing the Boulder Up the Mountain
I've had a recurring dream of late. I am sloughing through deep snow in a dark forest. My feet are garbed in heavy boots. I am wearing a...

Loveday Funck
Dec 8, 20202 min read


The Gratitude Attitude
I spent almost two years working on my Deck of the New Orleans Tarot Cats. I blogged weekly as I finished a card and shared aspects of my...

Loveday Funck
Dec 1, 20202 min read


Art as Spiritual Practice
I've shied around the question and evaded directly answering the inquiries in increasingly vague kinds of ways. It's been about...

Loveday Funck
Nov 24, 20202 min read


The Past is Never at Rest
Last year, I took an art marketing class. One of the exercises in the class was to examine your life and re-tell it as a Hero's Journey....

Loveday Funck
Nov 17, 20204 min read


Stay with Me
As a child, I remember bringing home a "B" on a test. I was pleased because I'd struggled with understanding and learning the material. I...

Loveday Funck
Oct 13, 20202 min read


All Good Things Must Come to an End
It's been a long and rewarding journey. 78 weeks. 78 cards. Like the Fool, I started with nothing and have spiraled up and up, learning...

Loveday Funck
Sep 28, 20201 min read


What is the Value of Art?
We went down to the French Quarter of New Orleans last Friday to walk around and explore the galleries. I hadn't been down to the Quarter...

Loveday Funck
Sep 22, 20203 min read


Love is the Answer
I've struggled with the question of why. I've never been willing to do things simply because I was told to do them. I always needed a...

Loveday Funck
Sep 15, 20202 min read
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