Loveday Funck

It can be hard to draw the line between personal and professional when you work as an artist and your artwork reflects your emotions and...

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...

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...

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...

Do I frighten you? Based on even more drama from my YouTube creators support group, I've begun to suspect that I do indeed frighten...

I have met the adult mean girls and, unsurprisingly, they have forbidden me to play in their reindeer games. I thought that bullies were...

It's ten days until Christmas. The darkest night is looming before us. I keep trying to focus my energies and start a new project but my...

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...

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...

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

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....

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I am still tinkering with the idea of sort of short art book with a main character with a storyline...

As we move toward the lifting of the veil, I find myself drawn toward thoughts of my ancestors. I know that they came from Ireland,...

A few days ago, I started tinkering with the idea of a short art book, something inspired by the lives of actresses like Olive Thomas and...

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...

My Deck of the New Orleans Tarot Cats is finished. Where do I go from here? I've worked on this project for almost two years and it feels...

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...

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...

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...

I spent a night in uneasy dreams. The only moment I remember clearly is a white ermine walking along the edge of my vision. I stopped...