Mixed Media Artist
I got my hands on Gwen’s holiday stencils and the ideas immediately started going round in my head. I mean, look at them! And yes, those are fairy lights shining down on them. I do so love to have fairy lights shining down on my desk. First I stenciled on white paper. Then on a …
From time to time most bloggers ask themselves the question. “What question?” you ask. That question. Why do we blog? If you are asking this question, pull up a seat and have a cold glass of peach infused ice tea. “Why this tea in particular?”you may well ask. “Why not plain? Why not coffee? “Because …
Sometimes it’s increments of the smallest measure. Sometimes it’s bigger. Sometimes it’s grand. A few dots. Several lines. Once started the gel pen moves almost on it’s own. Just a few minutes is enough to keep the momentum.
Transformation – it’s everywhere. Especially in this season. I attended a art journaling hangout on Google with Amy Maricle a few months ago. She has some really helpful things on her website, so make sure you go and check it out. Today looking through a spread I did during that time I decided to take my pens …
See the paint on my fingers? It was great to see it there and even more thrilling to see the design of the stencil printed on my fingers. It’s been a busy month for so many reasons, not the least of which is preparation and the beginning of a new school year in tandem with …
This spread was done during our Artist’s Retreat and was inspired by the wonder that is Cindi Huss. Cindi has never ceased to amaze and delight me with her openness to people who have a wide, and I really mean huge, span of cultural, political, socio-economic, gender, add whatever else I have left out, backgrounds. …
First meal of Artist’s Retreat – on the shore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Photograph altered with Brushstroke app. Artist’s Retreat. Doesn’t that sound romantic? Maybe expensive? Certainly illusive. Well, at least that’s how I felt about it. Every year I’d talk to Cindi Huss, a dear friend who has moved far enough away that we don’t …
I feel a little sheepish, but I realize I didn’t include a link to the Mad Tea Party revelers in my Mad Tea Party blogpost. I thought I was being clever in preparing my post in advance, as the Mad Tea Party fell in the middle of my Artist Retreat. The morning of the party …
Today is the day that my dear friend, Cindi Huss arrives for a few days of making art. We have talked about taking some time together for a long time. Our “Artist Retreat” has taken some unexpected turns and has toned down from the original idea. I trust that it is unfolding just as it …
Recent visitors to RMBM know that I have been enjoying exploring art journaling. Friends have heard ad nauseam about how excited I was to take my first ever class with Kelly Kilmer at Kept Creations in Whitman, Massachusetts. Well, lovelies, I was not disappointed. It was a wonderful day of creating, learning, laughing and stretching …