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....
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...