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Fortunately, Unfortunately Jill

Posted on March 4, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 8 Comments

This weekend I am teaching Painted Pages and am busy getting ready when my little darling, Sydney, comes down with a cold. So, stop everything, heat up the soup, buy apple juice and cough drops, and get to playing Mexican Train. She wants to be right near me, so I am entertaining myself while she [...]

Fort Worden Map, Phase 2

Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 3 Comments

the critters are coming to life!

Fort Worden Warning Map

Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | Leave a Comment

I am going to Artfest for the first time this year. It is a very last minute decision and, amazingly, it is coming together. Against all sane thinking I signed up to do the Fatbook, which has a theme of Artfest and Sea Monsters. This is the map I am making for my pop-page for [...]

Journaling small

Posted on February 13, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 1 Comment

Sometimes making small pictures makes you notice the small things. Here are small things in the desert.

Red Beach

Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 1 Comment

Here is another exercise Jennifer. Take a piece of overdone papers (not that you ever made one ;0) and add a transparent layer on top. This is a piece of crazy red paste paper that I painted over with acrylics, watercolor and colored pencil. The golden house is the one I live in. You can [...]

Re-writing History

Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 1 Comment

My friend Jennifer is recovering from surgery and really needs me to get bossy with her while she idles away the hours on the couch with her cat. So, here is assignment number 1, an exercise I do in my journaling classes. It is fun, and a simple way to re-write an article, a letter, [...]

The Spirit of Hundertwasser

Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Being an Artist, Creative Exercises | 4 Comments

I spent the weekend attempting to channel Friedensreich Hundertwasser, a brilliant Viennese artist and architect whose work makes me swoon. His spirit made a small, weak attempt to enter my body, but inadverantly I shoved it away. Too conceited maybe, closed to more that I had guessed. At any rate, I wanted to try working [...]

Obamangel

Posted on December 17, 2008 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | 2 Comments

This is a small watchmaker’s tin ornament I made for my mother. She likes Obama. Actually, she loves him. Mom and I went to D.C. a few years ago after Art and Soul, and had a very patriotic time of it. We even saw the Queen. Our patriotic connection, as every other connection, goes way [...]

Cathedral of a Woman’s Day

Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Creative Exercises | Leave a Comment

This is the book I made from the page below. It is an homage to the daily task of women, starting with the sunrise in the garden, moving to the juggling act of house, children, husband and art, to the actual husband (depicted here as a martini glass with a face). The last two pages [...]