Artist Friends : Jill Berry Blog

Crabs, Clams and Other Gifts

Posted on August 28, 2010 - Filed Under Artist Friends, Real Life | Leave a Comment

I know the most marvelous people. A few weeks ago my friend Lynne sent me some crabs. Not your everyday gift, especially since the part she sent me was dried up and inedible, but that is exactly what I wanted. Horseshoe crabs and especially their tails, which I learned to love to write with while [...]

Drawing Lab Book Giveaway!!!

Posted on July 13, 2010 - Filed Under Artist Friends, Publications I'm In | 64 Comments

Carla Sonheim an artist, teacher, and friend, has a new and already best-selling book out called Drawing Lab For Mixed Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun This book is third in a series by Quarry Books (the first two by Tracy Bunkers and Bee Shay), and it is FABULOUS!!! Not because I [...]

Face the Facts

Posted on June 23, 2010 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops, Artist Friends, My Hubby's Band | Leave a Comment

I am putting together new classes and old classes and writing a book, walking the dog, cooking for the hubby and headed out tonight to see his band. In other words, I am busy. Yesterday I waded through old portfolios and found drawings I had done, and actually took the time to ponder and enjoy [...]

Growing Old, or New

Posted on June 11, 2010 - Filed Under About me, Artist Friends | 4 Comments

Today I am praying for my friend Deandra, who is at the end of her journey with ovarian cancer. I am praying for grace to bless her and hold her, and her husband Luke, and her large and loving family. She told me once that she felt like the luckiest of cancer patients because of [...]

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 [...]

Beautiful

Posted on May 11, 2010 - Filed Under About me, Artist Friends | 3 Comments

Beautiful is the word on this pendant, that arrived in the mail to me on Friday, along with a beautiful card. Beautiful is when this kind of thing happens at just the right, and unexpected time. Beautiful is the heart of someone who would do this for someone they hardly know, because their heart moves [...]

Wild Women for Wine

Posted on January 5, 2010 - Filed Under Artist Friends, What I am up to | 4 Comments

In mid-December my friend Deedee had her annual women’s dress up ornament exchange party. 40 fabulous women in a room with trading, champagne, food, and lots of shenanigans is my kind of evening. I laughed, a lot. Have to say I went there with a mission, to get the ornament Deedee herself made. One has [...]

Angel Ann, and Andrew

Posted on November 20, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 5 Comments

Today I am thinking of two people, Ann Van Tassell, and Andrew van der Merwe. Ann is my friend, and the friend of many, who just passed away from a long, long struggle with breast cancer. Andrew is a lettering artist in South Africa. Both are calligraphers, both are people who strive to make the [...]

Paul Johnson, day 1

Posted on May 14, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 7 Comments

Paul Johnson, a book artist from Manchester, England, is staying with us this week. He is conducting four workshops for our guild that took me three years to get organized. It was almost like a wedding in the level of ordeal and then whoosh, the time is here and rapidly rushing by. Yesterday we went [...]

One World, One Heart. More!

Posted on February 7, 2009 - Filed Under Artist Friends | 1 Comment

A little earlier I was writing about the Inversion of the Dark Ages, how many blessed events are occurring to replace the bad stories and events of the last decade. Has anyone noticed that there are 911 participants in this particular event? 9/11 done over, in a good way. A positive relationship between those numbers, [...]