In the studio this week is a misnomer. I wasn’t in the studio very much at all due to the New Year’s distractions. I did start the second painting with Mark Making from the Mastery Program. I also managed to play a little with watercolor and painted an owl. Mixed Media Piece I started another…
I Invite you in the studio this week to see the results of my efforts. I had a mixed bag of art-making this week. I didn’t really know what to do since I had finished the primary lessons for Kaleidoscope’s August lessons. I had shared my previous week’s paintings with a group of women artists,…
Portrait drawing on an altered book
Self-portrait collage
This year has been full of ups and downs so far and I’m looking at where I am right now and trying to figure out just why I lost my mojo. I’m still creating. I still write Morning Pages in my journal each day. I have a support group or two of fellow artists. I…
Decide to Move! One cannot easily be a wandering vagabond when tied to a house. Put your house on the market and watch it sell quicker than you thought! Our new home won’t be ready for several months so anything we wanted to keep would have to be stored. See my previous post about creativity…
Part 3 of a series of highlights on traveling through Arizona and creating aart.
In a previous post, I wrote about how creative practices helped me through COVID. I recovered with no discernable side effects, but my husband ended up with viral pneumonia as a result. We had planned a winter trip to get out of the cold weather which was affecting his ability to breathe. For several weeks…
Last week I managed to complete four of the “taster” lessons from Tamara LaPorte’s Kaleidoscope session. T tried to choose lessons that used a medium I wasn’t comfortable using or a subject that I don’t typically draw/paint. Two of the subjects were portraits and those I tend to lean towards, but the medium was different…
After writing the Morning Pages and finishing my coffee (yum!), I typically allot some time to review new emails and clean up my inbox. If anything requires immediate attention, I get it out of the way to free up the rest of the day. Then I decide where I’ll spend some time being creative. I…
