As those of you who visit often might recall, I am doing a year long workshop based on Mary Todd Beam’s book Celebrate Your Creative Self. I am tad bit behind the group but was catching up by doing a painting using sand in gesso. I agree with Todd Beam in that the one thing… Continue reading Sand in Gesso
My mother loves roses so this piece I dedicate to her. She talks to me like understand. She ought to know I can’t even keep a cactus alive. Plants and I are mortal enemies and since I am still kicking, my guess is I have killed the plants. I am not totally sure I am done… Continue reading A Rose By Any Other Name
I know it will seem late to a lot of you but the graduation season has started here and that means congratulatory cards for many. I have been known, since my oldest graduated from high school five years ago, as the one who makes all the cards. I have gotten lazy, lost instructions for various… Continue reading Graduation Art Weekend
The challenge this month at The Latest Trends in Mixed Media was jewelry. I am slowly making several pieces but want to include some items I have made previously. I am big on pins, which I consider jewelry though others may call them artist trading pins. Most of my pins have been made using dominoes. … Continue reading Jewelry Making
Every month I look forward to my visit to Michelle Ward’s GPP Street Team blog so that I can see what Michelle has come up with for the crusade of the month. Last month it was paper casting which is something I love. This month it is IRRESISTIBLE – wax resist! I set off to… Continue reading GPP Street Team Crusade #21 – Irresistible!
I belong to a group of artists – The Latest Trends in Mixed Media – and monthly we have been doing either a charm or pin challenge and swap. This month the swap was beading. I carefully considered all the different beads I have on hand. I didn’t have the time or money to go… Continue reading Beading
No, Michelle Ward and the GPP Street Team are not casting a new movie. But the Street Team is casting paper into all kinds of things. I missed, or haven’t yet caught up with Crusades 18 & 19 but will get back to them eventually as I do have all the items gathered to do… Continue reading Crusade 20 – Casting Call
I love the flowers as they bloom and the vibrant colors they bring to the road side and yards around my area but it was coming down the hill yesterday that I was taken by the vibrant and many shades of green there are in spring. There were the ever dark greens of the pines… Continue reading The Color of the Spring is Green
I am taking part – although I seem to be behind as usually – in an online workshop on photo manipulation. While most will think of this as a digital form of art, we are doing a bit of digital and actual manipulation in the workshop. My first attempt was with an image I took… Continue reading Photo Manipulation
In the workshop I am doing this year that is working the way through Mary Todd Beam’s Celebrate Your Creative Self, we are working on a seascape this month. I have been behind due to some unforeseen and some foreseen life circumstances. I just started mine today. This post will be a continuing one with… Continue reading Celebrate Your Creative Self – Seascape
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