Why am I grateful this #ThankfulThursday to Ali Manning of @vintagepage designs? Is it a coincidence that I finally developed the #morningpages habit just as I was introduced to the #handmadebookclub? Just today I wrote the final pages and added...
Thankful this month for @barizaki, one of the first people to teach me the fine points of bookbinding and box-making at her studio in my hometown of Chicago. Had a lovely afternoon at that studio yesterday with local members of the...
I don’t know if I’ll ever use a process quite this structured again, but the series of new paintings is coming along. My last Instagram reel showed the original still life and the tracing paper drawings that were made from every angle, then layered...
So I made a little reel and posted it on Instagram, showing the lead up to a series of 10 paintings I working on right now - six out of ten finished, I think. The project started years ago as the last assignment in my Composition class, just...
Time for #ThankfulThursday again, and a shout-out to another one of the artists that the COVID crisis brought in to my life. Thanks to @lucieduclos who, through the @winslowartcenter led the #paperpalscollageclub, inspiring and challenging us every...
Bel Mills of @scrap_paper_circus is my Thankful Thursday this month. She was one of many lockdown-era sanity savers who came to us via Zoom with great projects and skill builders. This paper wallet made the 3 year old girl who got it very happy...
My #thankfulthursday shout-out this month is to Dr. Merideth Hite-Estevez of @artistsforjoy . After years of trying, something about the free on-line Artists Way group she facilitates finally helped me flip the switch on morning pages and stick to...
I’ve been wondering why these colors have been insisting on being part of the new series of mixed media paintings I’m starting. They also showed up in the collage pieces I created as part of #collagejoylove. Today I realized it is probably because...
For #thankfulthursday this month, as I think about artists and art teachers I owe a lot to, I think back to COVID times, when the @theleftbrainartist podcast from @suzanneredmondart made my world bigger instead of smaller. She introuced me to many...
I don’t have to go far back at all for this month’s Thankful Thursday Artist. I’m just finishing off the series I worked on during Cat Rains’ Collage Joy on-line course - some final finishing to do, and some good advice to follow as I decide how...