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Category: Creativity

Storytellers

Mikki BriskApril 10, 2016Creativity Life Los Angeles

    The other night I found myself at The Ebell for a round of storytelling. And let me say upfront that I adore stories and yet I don’t attend nearly enough readings, and I have no excuse for that.…

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Down Every Road

Mikki BriskApril 9, 2016Creativity Life Music

    A light went out this week when Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday.   I have loved Merle Haggard’s music since I was a child. And the song I’ve loved most wasn’t written by him –…

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Thursday Memories

Mikki BriskApril 7, 2016Art Creativity Life Los Angeles

    A couple of days ago I mentioned I’d be seeing my dear friend, Kate Graves. And I did. The photo shown above is from the summer I first met Kate, along with her sister, Sarah Sample. It was…

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“Abstract Series 1: The Cocteau Twins – Twin One and Twin Two”

Mikki BriskApril 6, 2016Art Creativity Music Painting

    When I first shared my painting “Abstract Series 1: 1985“, I mentioned there were a few other paintings in this series. What you see above is “Twin One” and what you see below is “Twin Two.”    …

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Behind The Curtain – Wrap-up. Maybe.

Mikki BriskApril 1, 2016Art Creativity Painting

    For a while now, I’ve been sharing progress on a painting. Though many of you are artists, not everyone is a painter. And if you haven’t painted, you may be unfamiliar with what goes into creating a piece…

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Trio Ellas

Mikki BriskMarch 29, 2016Creativity Music

    Last week I had the privilege of seeing a new-to-me band – Trio Ellas (“Three Shes” in Spanish). And I was in awe.   Part of me wants to call them a female Mariachi band. Part of me…

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Goodnight, Mr. Hamner

Mikki BriskMarch 26, 2016Childhood Creativity Life

    Early Thursday afternoon, Earl Hamner, Jr. died. If you’re wondering who the heck that might have been, then you, my friend, probably weren’t glued to the television in the early ’70s, watching The Waltons.   I, on the…

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Art on The Ceiling

Mikki BriskMarch 25, 2016Art Creativity Home Life Los Angeles Painting

      Twenty-some-odd years ago, I was reading an interview with Madonna and the writer spoke of visiting her home. I don’t remember one thing about that piece other than a description of a painting hanging on the ceiling…

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Not For Sale

Mikki BriskMarch 22, 2016Creativity Home

    I passed this display in a department store and had to double back, as I was quite taken with one element. I knew immediately that I wanted it in my own home, and I also knew I needn’t…

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Behind the Curtain – Session 5

Mikki BriskMarch 18, 2016Art Creativity Painting

    This is the photo from last week’s post. I said then that I was starting to get excited about the painting, and that’s because I knew it was finally taking form.   After working on the painting a…

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