When I was a child, my Aunt Mary was my window into the world of craft, or as I think of it, art. She, along with one of my grandmothers, were the ones who could sew, knot, crochet, and opened that world to me. In many ways my Grandmother had a...
October passed me by too quickly to get this post out and included in my month-end summary email. It’s important to me, marking the passage of time even if no one else ever read it. October is a long month, but it felt short. I met my own...
I’m carrying on with revisiting some old mixed media paintings - some I knew were unfinished, some I thought might be unfinished. It’s really fun to reword these. This one is an example of a piece I thought might be finished some time ago, but...
Well, I sort of stayed home in August. One quick day trip from Chicago over to Grand Rapids to attend a quilt exhibit and show. Great inspiration pieces and a great opportunity to do a little exhibit hall shopping as usual. This was the...
Moving on from collage to mixed media painting. I have a stash of unfinished pieces that need some resolution. Love working in layers, but boy if you get interrupted it can sit there for a while in a pretty unattractive place. Sometimes I just...
The series of 10 collages based on views through various windows that have been meaningful to me is finished - pretty fast for me considering I began it during a class in June and there has been a lot of away time since then. On the left, what I...
The series continues. This “window” collage is from the Montreal Botanical Gardens, a really magical place, and is my interpretation of a view from inside a little pagoda-type structure in the Japanese Garden, I think. I highly recommend spending...
It’s hard to believe a year ago I didn’t own a car, hadn’t owned one for five years, and now we have over 20,000 miles on our little Accord. July was another cross-country month, starting with a quick lunch with the family in suburban Detroit,...
I think this series - which I’ve called “All My Dreams Flew Out the Window - in the best possible way” - will run to about ten pieces. The piece of the left is inspired by a beautiful cherry tree that bloomed in the spring in the side yard of our...
More on our road trip later, but July included a stop in Montreal and yes, there are museums and churches, etc. but my favorite things aren’t necessarily the most typical. Well, maybe this first one - the Botanical Gardens were spectacular....