Summer finally came, in kind of a bi-polar way. Some glorious days, some sweltering days, but all were welcome. We started to take advantage of the Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago last year, and continue to visit it for beautiful morning...
Another in my series of view from windows I’ve known. This one is a loose interpretation of the view from my bedroom window in Grosse Pointe Michigan. It was a small room with a view at the roof of the house next door and and an alley beyond. The...
Here’s another in the new collage series - this one is based on the view from the yoga studio at Miraval in Tucson, Arizona. I’ve had photos of this view for years, it’s such a striking vista - I usually meditate with my eyes closed, but this view...
All those new collage papers I made in Paducah set me off down the rabbit hold of fodder techniques. Time to put the big stash of new goodies to use - this is the first in a series called All My Dreams Flew Out the Window - in the best possible...
I finished it! One of those 100 day Instagram projects done and dusted. I decided to use this project to experiment with gouache - one of those things I had in my stash but had never used. As you can see on the left, a little gouache goes a long...
The stars aligned and I was finally able to stop by Ephemera in Paducah, Kentucky to take a workshop this month. It fit perfectly (kind of) into a road trip we decided to make for me to do a speaking engagement in Austin, Texas. And gave me a...
One of my favorite things in my studio is this gallery wall. I don’t really frame very much, like I said in the last post, but this lets me clip works in process or recently finished (or not so recenty finished) pieces. It’s adjustable up and...
It took me a while to understand why so many of the artists I follow always seem to post pictures of their work beautifully framed and hanging in well-curated rooms. I kept wondering how they afforded to frame everything, how they stored it all,...
The picture I chose of March is a sampler piece I completed during an on-line workshop with Valerie Goodwin, a quilt artist. The workshop is called Map Haiku, and the pieces are abstract representations of places, real or imagined, rendered in...
If you are an Instagram Artist, the #100 day project is familiar to you. If not, here’s the gist of it - starting this year in mid-February, if you choose to participate you choose some kind of project you will work on every day for 100 days and...