From Holly: Hi Laurel, Love, love, love your 'untitled' painting. I understand this is part of an unfinished series - are you planning to exhibit the series and do you anticipate this painting will ever be for sale? (please say yes!) Many Thanks, LH: My hopes are to exhibit the painting in an exhibition, and yes, the whole series would be for sale. From Angie: Hi Laurel, What are your thoughts, when you begin to paint? Are you sad or angry, or do you paint from inside your feelings? The paintings you have made you see so many emotions. The Redhead touched my heart, maybe a reflection of myself. There are so many emotions in all the paintings, maybe it’s a whole story you are trying to tell us through your amazing, wonderful, beautiful paintings. Thank you, Laurel. LH: I don't know if I would give away my thoughts that I go through when I paint. They're pretty private as they are coming from my emotional life. I do know that a painting is usually better when I'm stirred up a bit. I still have so much to learn with painting, and I'd like to do it more full time. My feelings toward acting are evolving in a different way. I rarely watch television, actually never, so it's a hard medium for me to stay excited about working in. I constantly have to push myself. From TuCatz: In regard to the process of acting and painting and the comparison between the two, what do you most enjoy about the process of painting and what do you find hardest? What do you most enjoy about the process of acting and what do you find the hardest, and which of the two challenges you the most? Kind Regards, LH: I like painting because I can do it on my time frame. I can paint then pick my kids up from school. If I'm on set, I usually miss the whole day plus dinner, and tucking in time with my kids (days are often 16 hours). I find painting difficult sometimes when I get lost in the process and I originally had something great. It can be easy to destroy good work. I love acting when the material and the character is great. Having great co-stars is also good. I sometimes love auditioning and sometimes hate it. The industry is changing dramatically now and actors have lost their power. I hope to go back to theater at some point. I think it would fire me up more and there are so many great parts now that I'm older. You probably won't see me chase too many guest parts unless they're on cable. I find so much television really formulaic. I mostly miss indie film. I would love to be in something like "Frozen River". Melissa Leo was amazing and the whole movie was so authentic. From TuCcatz: Miki, what is the inspiration behind what you photograph - do you look for certain shots or is it more instinctive than that? Do you have a preference of what you photograph - people, landscape etc and why? MT: I really like photograhing people and capturing their emotional state. It's often better when you catch them off guard but there are times when people look right into the camera and it's just magic. I find a lot of beauty in landscapes and sunsets/sunrises, too. I'm just less inspired by them. From Ana: Had there been a time during the process of painting where you found yourself in a place inside that you feel that you can’t quite carry on painting? LH: That's a good question, Anna. Mostly it's very simple. I need to stop if I'm overly tired or frustrated. I mostly get frustrated because I want to be better. Or, what I want to express isn't coming out the way I want. Loss of Identity had a lot of ups and downs, and I was very close to it emotionally, and yes, I forced myself to take breaks from it.
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