For this month’s #thankfulthursday, the artist teacher/mentor/inspiration I’d like to highlight is @jesshuffco Thanks to her adorable #amigurumi patterns, I got big points with my niece and nephews. What is it about making the stuffie they choose...
This one has been with me for a long time as a work in progress, but it ‘s been a pretty continuous companion. I’ve written before about how it started, in a workshop with Carolina Oneto on Curves and Transparencies as a single little block. Then...
This #thankfulthursday art teacher shout-out is to Roben-Marie Smith (@robenmarie) for all I've learned as a member of Makers Tech U. The doors are closed now as Roben-Marie is moving on/moving back to other artsy-interests but her #techsavvyartist...
After upcycling and recovering a bunch of flip top boxes, I had a huge stash of beautiful papers and a craving for something a little different. Lucky for me I came across Nancy Akerly (@libertygrovepaperarts) and her online offerings. My favorite...
I rarely achieve "empty mind" when I meditate. Maybe like you, my mind seems to default to use this time to "plan", which is a nice word for obsessively reviewing my to-do list and my worries. One day this phrase came to me: Breathing IS planning....
Another #thankfulthursday post for my art teachers and inspirations My “work” life has involved maps and geography for years and the Map Haiku workshop with @valeriegoodwinart gave me a way to cross it over into my art life. Don’t judge her work by...
Keeping myself in gratitude, I’m sharing #thankfulthursday posts on Instagram highlighting the generous teachers who have inspired me and upskilled me in pursuit of my #passionsandpastimes. Today, thank you to @carolina_oneto for her help with...
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...