August, 2023
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 month with examples and prompts. When you check out Lucie’s work (photo is my work, not hers), and I hope you do, you’ll see a really distinctive and memorable style that is instantly recognizable as hers, something I aspire to someday – I think.
June, 2023
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 it, to great benefit. It still astonishes me when I see the filled journals that have piled up.
I’m looking forward to a conversation with her next week to talk about how #enneagramtypes influence creative practice — look for this and other topics on her Artists for Joy Podcast. I’m an Enneagram 6, and to be honest don’t know much about the types, but when I read the basics and started to consider the questions she is posing, it feels like there is a lot of insight to be had.
May, 2023
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 other artists that I follow and have learned from to this day.
The podcast ended in 2022 as Suzanne redirected her focus to other endeavors, including her own art. And that’s another good lesson – don’t be afraid to move on to the next great thing when it’s time. (But you can still find episodes on any podcast app)
April, 2023
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 to mount.
So many things kept me moving through this course when so many others I have signed up for are still waiting. . .
I really appreciated the combination of making papers and making pieces. I really appreciated the “color palette first” approach – color is almost always my spark – and the focus and coherence that comes from finishing the palette.
I’ll take titles more seriously and keep a notebook of marks. I’ll make small studies. I’ll think more about warm and cool.
At least I hope I will!
January, 2023
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 advice has been tremendously helpful to me, and I’m sure to many others.
The only tricky part of this post was figuring out what image to use, because there are traces of her influence in many places in my digital eco-system. This time it’s not about creating art, it’s about the art of creating the ways your art can be seen.