Luann Udell

WHAT I FORGOT TO TELL YOU About Art at the Source this weekend…. It’s been a hard year… So hard that I totally spaced doing any outreach to all you folks who signed up for newsletters! (screaming emoji face here….) A lot of (non-fatal) health issues continue, a major marriage hiccup with my long-term relationship for a year now, issues with longtime apps going broke/being discontinued on my…

I don’t even know where to start today. The last few years have been really really hard. Lots of multiple health issues, none fatal, for which I am grateful. Relationship issues. Lack of sleep. Too tired to even go for a walk. Then a month ago, I was rear-ended by a young driver from behind, and my car was totaled. She screamed at me that I had ruined her car. I pointed out that a small piece of…

(This was an article I wrote for Handmade Business, formerly The Crafts Report magazine, and I don’t know the date. And it’s my studio back in New Hampshire. Trust me, my next studio cleaning here in Santa Rosa CA will be even deeper…..) My studio could qualify for a Guinness World Record for “world’s densest collection of matter.” I have a lot of stuff. When I get more stuff, I just squeeze it…

(Another article from Crafts/Business magazine! Jan/Feb 2005) (And just in time for our upcoming open studio events…) You know what we hope for when we open our studio to the public? We hope everyone in town decides our work will make the perfect Christmas present, and hordes of shoppers will descend upon us, buying everything in sight. It doesn’t quite work that way. In fact, this was my fourth…

(This is an article I wrote for The Crafts Report in May 2008. Still works!) Yes, sometimes I think about retirement. Quite often, in fact. Wait for it…. Bwuha hahahahahahaha! Okay, I needed a good laugh. Seriously, I don’t know what I would retire from. Let’s face it, when you are an artist or a craftsperson (or pursuing any creative interest), you already have a lifestyle that’s probably very…

(An article I wrote for Crafts/Business Magazine in 2005!) I remember the first time I told my editor my rabbit was hanging out at my feet as we talked on the phone. “A wabbit! A wabbit?”, he exclaimed. “I gotta get a picture of that!  Send me a picture of you and the rabbit for the magazine!” I declined, of course. It’s hard enough for people to take a humor columnist seriously without sticking…

I subscribe to AvaCare Medical, a company that offers medical equipment that I’ve actually never used. I can’t even remember how I found them, it’s been years! But I keep subscribing because every Monday, there’s a bit of insight and wisdom that always lifts my heart. And today is no exception. Worry doesn’t take away tomorrow’s problems, it takes away today’s joy.  Whoa Nelly! So true! I dream…

I only show four cards because others were already gone! Last year, for our Sonoma County Art Trails open studio event, a fellow artist near me reached out with a terrific idea: She suggested everyone in our area (about 5-7 people) bring their postcards (with all our contact information, etc.) to our exhibit at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts…. And share them with each other! It was brilliant!…

It took me awhile to add all the new subscribers who came to our Sonoma County Art Trails this year. But I’m grateful for everyone who signed up for my newsletters–THANK YOU!!! My next open studio event at the Barracks will be First Saturday in December, 12/6, from 11 to 4(ish) at 3883 Finley AVE (NOT the community center.) I’m in Bldg. 33, 33Arts. Studio Santa Rosa will be open across the…

Just before we moved from New Hampshire to California, I took a fascinating workshop which helped so much with my creative work. And now I can’t remember much of it…. (screaming emoji face here) I googled “Theory U” and “Creative U”  (the basis of the workshop) and I can find things that kinda look like it. But I think our workshop leader had taken that process and transformed it into something…

ART TRAILS 2025 STARTS NOW! Small Cabinets of Wonder! Our last county-wide open studio event for the year…. ART TRAILS! There are two of us at 3840 Finley AVE Bldg. 33, 33Arts (NOT the Finley Community Center) who are participating this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11-12, and next weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19. We’re shooting for 10-5. I’m Studio #112 and Serena Hazard is…

I totally forgot to let you know, but I have another open studio this weekend and next…. There are three of us at 3840 Finley AVE Bldg. 33, 33Arts (NOT the Finley Community Center) who are participating in the new Santa Rosa Open Studios event this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, September 13 & 14, and next weekend, Saturday and Sunday, September 20 & 21. We’re shooting for 10-5. I have new work,…

  Every photo, every image I’ve ever posted in my blog, came from my phone!         I’ve written articles before about “young people today”, including the series “Why Millennials Don’t Buy Our Art“. (I wrote the series for an online art marketing newsletter I wrote for for almost 12 years, and it was the one series that got the most vicious blowback I have ever gotten from anything I have ever…

Don’t ask why I had so many cowboy boots, I can’t even wear them anymore! My studio, the last week of packing up and moving out. One of our three shipping containers we used! We moved to California in 2014, eleven years ago this September! We sold our home, and then had thirty days to pack up everything, sell what we couldn’t take, and move. I had a huge art studio in the barn attached to our…

Horse in progress Announcing our very first First Saturday Open Studio event on Saturday (doh!) July 5 from 10-5 at the Barracks! There are two buildings of art studios at 3840 Finley Avenue here in Santa Rosa, CA. The one across the parking lot from me, Studio Santa Rosa, has had open studios every single month since I’ve been here. Well, now our building, 33Arts, is going to join them! So hope…

    My Migration Series reminds me that we are all unique individuals, but we also need community. I love that some folks found my last post about making room (literally!) for your art helpful! I saw some comments on other platforms that cleaning and organizing a space can be overwhelming, and so can even trying to FIND a space in our homes. Hey, I can help with that, too! I was going to list all…