A Rainless Day
Today is supposed to be rainy, which is rare in Colorado and I was all excited to see that on the news last night. It is a great time to heat up the tea, cozy in and get things sorted. But, it is not raining and my rainy day plan is not running smoothly. I already lost my sunglasses and smooshed my brand new other glass to render them unwearable. My studio is filled with parts and pieces of book projects, kits left from teaching in four states, and lots of stuff to file. It is a wonderful place, but does not in any way resemble the studios you see in magazines. I want and need a personal...
Read MoreVirginia, there is room for you!
I am teaching next week at Art and Soul in Virginia Beach. Last year was lovely, being right on the sea, making art with friends. This year will be fabulous too.Wednesday and Thursday will be “Under the Influence” which is a painting workshop. It is a brief foray into art school, where you will learn about four artists that have influenced my work. Here is a post about this class. Here is a link to sign up. The other class is called Journal Texting Two, and it is about making letters, inventing alphabets, playing with all kinds and shapes of letters and tools. Chapter two of last...
Read MorePostcards with Jane
Jane Davies is a popular teacher and I can see why. I finally met her last week, at Art & Soul in Kansas City, where I taught and she did too. She offered a free postcard class one evening, and I went. She told us to make four very distinct designs on one piece of paper. All I had to work with was some pens and a bit of paint, not the roller carts of paper and collage materials most of the others had, so I set about drawing. The first quadrant I did was the marker faces, which I scribbled with a Pitt Big Brush Pen and filled in with neon green Molotow...
Read MoreJournal Challenge for Myself
In October my friend Connie presented me with a journal she made, it is stunning. She made it using a cover of a vintage book. She decorated every single page. Each one is so thoughtful, so full of texture and imagery that she glued, stitched, drew and collaged. Most of you know that I normally work on white pages, so this journal was a bit of a challenge for me, both because it was already so beautiful to look at, and because I was not sure how to approach a page with so much content already on it. I decided to try and work with the pages so what Connie did and what I added looked...
Read MoreLove Letters in Tucson
Last week I had the pleasure of teaching for Paperworks, in Tucson, Arizona. It was 70°, blue and crisp the entire week. I stayed with Stan and Linda Penny, who are so very good at hosting I considered squatting for a spell. The class met in a building on the agricultural part of the U of A, formerly known as the “Meat Science Lab”. There was some kind of event going on there, so while we were inside writing love letters and poetry, we were serenaded by moos and bleating outside. It is comfy being surrounded by large Angus cattle, maybe for me because that is my family heritage,...
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