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...
The Handmade Book Club asked me (!) to present on a Meet the Member call this month, and I'm really excited. And, at the same time, have you ever gone back to something you've made and been really confused about exactly how you did it? I'll be...
Way back in 2018 I had an idea that I wanted to repurpose some holiday card boxes that were really too nice to just throw away. At the time I was sending out over 400 hand-addressed cards for my business, so I was invested! I had figured out most...