2008 March : Jill Berry Blog

What an amazing roller coaster my life is right now. The good parts are wonderful, new and exciting, the bad parts are deep-in-the-soul painful. On the side of great things is my new exposure in print, more than four publications already this year, including Somerset Studio. Yesterday Jenny Doh at Somerset asked me to work with [...]

Kindness and the Election

Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under Artist Friends | Leave a Comment

I am having a complex time of it lately. First of all, I am an election delegate for the first time. Seems I have some rather strong views that, interestingly enough, are being satisfied by this process. It also means that the phone rings all day long from people who want my support. Add on [...]

Symbolic Language and All the Elements

Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 1 Comment

This is a page I made yesterday and just tore down today to make a book. I started with symbols from Africa and various other places, drawing them with a Sketch Wash pencil, and coloring them in with watercolor crayons. Then I did a layer of watercolor in the background and put it aside to [...]

Tempting Taos Workshops

Posted on March 11, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

This summer I am headed to Taos to teach for two weeks. The first week is a book class using just about everything I can get my hands on. We will paint papers and incorporate them into books, working in copper, wood, all kinds of found objects. It will be a lot of instruction in an organic [...]