Mixed Media Artist
February is one of my favorite months for celebrating. There’s Groundhog Day (Very low cost), Valentine’s Day (What’s not to love about a celebration of Love?) and Chinese New Year which gives me another excuse to eat good food. But my personal favorite is Setsubun. Odd that, but so it is. I first learned of …
What happens when you find an old map that your brother wrapped your Christmas gift in, you are thinking about what to make for the next Artist Tribe project and The Police are singing about Spirits in the Material World and their Secret Journey in the background? Well, this. This happens. Naturally. What else could …
Shoup, Lynda Diane. Always Running. 2017, Private Collection of the Artist. New spread exploring the time sensitive nature of modern life. Do you feel like you are always running? Do you have strategies to combat this?
Shoup, Lynda Diane. Half a Mind. 2017, Private Collection of the Artist. Documenting your work can be tricky. There are many different formats for citing works of art. When citing a painting in a paper, the citation looks different depending on the format of the paper. This is something familiar to me as I spent …
Art journal page prompted by Rae Missigman’s #artmarks30daychallenge While I haven’t been posting to my blog in a while, I have been fairly active on Instagram. Even before the last post, I made I started considering where this blog was going and some changes I hoped to make. Changes I hoped would make this blog more interactive. …
I’ve been hearing about The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron for a long time now. Several years ago my friend Cindi Huss told me about the book and about morning pages. I didn’t read the book, but I got the gist and started doing them off and on. About a year ago, the book found …
International Women’s Day journal page. The prompt I was working on was “primary”. The librarian in automatically thinks of primary documents. So I chose two from the National Archives – one of suffragettes marching on Bastille Day (they ended up in jail) and the amendment to grant women the right to vote. Keep marching. No …
Yesterday I read a blogpost by Jen Morris on her website Jen Morris Creative entitled What I’m reading this year: 17 books in 2017. She realized that she has many inspirational books sitting unread on her shelves and she is aiming to do something about that. It inspired me. Thanks, Jen. My bookshelf before the challenge …
It seems that the majority of my arting has been done on the go. While I continue to try to get my art desk under control, I haven’t spent much time at it. So I’m getting pretty good at creating wherever I am and in mini-bursts. More often than not, time at my art desk …
Life changing events are not always large. They can be small, seemingly insignificant things that would have no effect on others. They can be something another would forget within the hour. In High School I found out that my GPA was in the middle of my class. I don’t mean approximately. Smack dab in the middle …