artist at play
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Process! #4
Fourth step: cycle through steps 1-3 as many times as you choose, layering additional dripped lines, splatters, mark-making, and intentions for 2025. ✅✅✅✅ Step 4.1: Amanda doesn’t include an explicit step for working collage into the exercise, but she has bits of collage showing through in her painting, so how can I not follow suit?… Continue reading
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Process! #3
Third step: dip your fingertips into wet paint of various colors and fingerpaint swooshes and marks onto your canvas. ✅ I opt for shades and tints of the colors I’ve got going already and, to the fingerpainting, I bring a dip pen and India ink into play. Engaging. Satisfying. Continue reading
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Process Interruption
Turns out part of my Process! series of posts includes pressing pause on the January creative exercise I’m working on to experiment with more gift wrap! I turn to my still inexhaustible supply of 12 x 12″ sheets of tissue-like Dixie All-Purpose Food Wrap and get to work. I paint with a different color palette… Continue reading
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Process! #2
Second step: drip lines of paint across the canvas. ✅ I have yet to find my stride with drips, truth be told; I don’t know why they challenge me. But I get into the anything-goes spirit of Amanda and improvise my way to some partly-dripped, partly-dragged, partly-painted-with-a-different-brush lines. Next up: think in present tense about… Continue reading
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Process!
It’s time for a process post here at dotty seiter: now playing. I’m on artist Amanda Evanston’s mailing list and, as part of a New Year’s Day email, she included the link to a creative exercise she’s done for several years, usually sometime early in January. I’m in the process of following the steps she… Continue reading
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Wrapping Up 2024
As has been the case for the past 2-3 years, I was inspired again this year to pull a 12 x 12″ sheet of Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap from my seemingly endless stash so I could create hand-painted wrapping paper to provide visual pizzazz to two money gifts. Satisfying last-minute venture partway through Christmas… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 7
Way back in the day, year after year, I baked cookies, cookies, cookies for sharing during the Christmas season. Now, it seems, I “bake” bookmarks, bookmarks, bookmarks. Back in the day, a new friend was likely to receive a plate of cookies in December. Now, a new friend just might receive a bookmark instead. Bookmark… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 6
from a place in my heart, a signal to my hands:putter joyfully! Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 5
My daughter Meg informed me many years ago that the image she carries of me in her mind is of my head’s moving through space of its own volition, trailing my body behind it and my toes’ dragging along barely touching the ground. Enter qigong! I practice it both in a wonderful class on Monday… Continue reading
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Bookmarking Joy in December, 4
It is my great grand good fortune to participate in a yoga class that nourishes me week after week, a class I bumped into in the unlikeliest of ways. That story: had a mammogram a few years back. Results not definitive. Had to have a repeat done at a different facility. Met afterwards with ‘my’… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my creative practice.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
In 2025 I begin writing poetry and include a poem and painting in each post.
My compass points: shake hands with fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
