Haiku Friday

Posted on July 23, 2010 - Filed Under About me, Creative Exercises | 7 Comments

Across the nightmare
You guided my boy and yours
Gently back to dreams
Last night my mom called, past midnight. That is never good. Sam is with her in California, he has been attending golf camp near her house, and has perfected the chip. He is treating everyone around him with gentile grace. Then last night, he woke [...]

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Getting Smarter

Posted on May 29, 2010 - Filed Under About me, Artist Friends, Being an Artist | 4 Comments

Last week I had a very last minute change of plans, which has historically been not a situation that brings out the best in me, control issues and all. This time I decided to take care of myself, lose the stress and turn the day into something even better than it would have been. And [...]

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A Walk on the Beach

Posted on March 23, 2010 - Filed Under Being an Artist, What I am up to | 2 Comments

I spent the morning doing a piece of art, and by noon I needed to throw it away. It was inauthentic and just plain yucky. Since I have so little time to do this sort of thing it is frustrating to junk the art I make. It was clear I needed to be doing something [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day Limerick

Posted on March 17, 2010 - Filed Under Creative Exercises, Real Life, What I am up to | 2 Comments

There once was a dog named Teebo
Who when swimming would wear a Speedo
“It makes him look funky”
Said a passing by monkey
Teebo’s tears fell right on to his feeto.
By Sydney Erin Berry, poet, child, dreamer.

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Positively Black and Spontaneous Journaling

Posted on March 5, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, Creative Exercises | 6 Comments

I love working on black paper. In high school I had an aversion to black, and would never wear it or use it in art. Even now the only black paint I have is actually gesso. Black does not, in its absolute form, occur in nature. Dark colors do, but not black. What we call [...]

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Lust for Letters

Posted on March 4, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, About me, Creative Exercises | Leave a Comment

I love inventing alphabets. Quirky hobby, I know, but it is fun. This is a page in my journal of Mexico Letters, which were inspired by a book I have on Pre-Hispanic Stamp Designs.
This one was inspired by the work of Joan Miró. I did this in a workshop that I was not enjoying very [...]

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Poppies

Posted on February 26, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, Creative Exercises, Written Inspiration | 3 Comments

This is a piece that I did a few years ago. It is a wild on-the-floor journaling exercise that I did when I was working with Mary Oliver’s poem, Poppies. It took me about a half hour. Sometimes you just have to splash things around.
Some of this you can learn at Magical Midnight Stories at [...]

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Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 16, 2010 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 1 Comment

This Valentine was made about 1916, about 45 years after the greeting card for this holiday became popular. Now it is second only to Christmas, billions of cards per year. Yesterday I received three Valentines from arty friends, this is such a huge benefit to being in the art community. Last week I also received [...]

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Becoming an Artist

Posted on February 10, 2010 - Filed Under About me, Being an Artist, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

This gal, I call her Grammy, clearly lives in de Nile. Her epidermis had turned to leather, which she continued to bake daily. I drew her on the beach in Mexico a number of years ago, then came home and painted this. What I love about Grammy is that she reminds me that despite being [...]

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Magical Midnight Stories, real ones

Posted on February 6, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, Creative Exercises, My Work | 3 Comments

My friend Nancy had a stroke last week. She is out of the coma she was in, but it seems to me that she is still not with us. It looks sort of like her, but I think she is on vacation, trying to figure it out. Her hospital room is devoid of flowers, but [...]

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