Why I Don't Have a Favorite Medium
People ask me all the time: what's your favorite medium? I don't have one — and that's the whole point.
11/11/20261 min read
Oil, acrylic, watercolor, cyanotype, printmaking — I teach them all, because each one taught me something different.
People ask me all the time: what's your favorite medium?
I don't have one.
I started in oil paint when I was six years old. Since then I've worked in acrylic, watercolor, cyanotype, relief printmaking — linocut and woodblock — and book arts. And I teach all of them now, because each one taught me something different.
For me it has always been about "what if." That's how my art pours out of me — it's not planning, just allowing. I pick up a material and see what it wants to do, and what I can do with it.
Every material teaches imagination, creativity, and play. Oil teaches patience — you wait for layers to dry, you build slowly. Watercolor teaches you to let go — once the wash is down, it's down. Printmaking teaches you to plan backwards. Cyanotype teaches you to be surprised — you never quite know what the sun will give you.
And there's something real happening in your brain while you do it. Making art lights up the part of your brain that imagines, experiments, and makes connections — the part that asks "what if." Every time you try a medium you've never used before, your brain builds new connections to figure it out. That's why a new material feels awkward at first, and then one day it doesn't. You're growing the creative part of your brain, the same way you'd build a muscle.
Art has been part of my life since I could remember. And yet I'm still learning how to create — trying new things, developing, letting each new material teach me something I didn't know.
That is what being an artist is all about. The dare, the process, the experiments.
That's why I don't have a favorite. The favorite is the next thing I haven't tried yet.
Come try one with me — check out the available classes.
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