artist at play
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Feeling Scrappy
I feel scrappy and carefree as I work on this piece, determined to get paper cut-outs and scraps glued in place in the little ink-outlined box in my art journal come what may. No matter that:• the glue messes up,• the ink smears and is uneven,• I don’t yet have the right scissors at hand,•… Continue reading
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Shape Up or Ship Out
Oh my gosh, I am dialed in to shapes everywhere I look, and today’s mini-Matisse was inspired by the ribs of a wooden ship, so shape up or ship out, dear readers, hahaha! I continue to experiment with background texture that will enhance without overpowering. Played here with penciled journaling. Even with a light hand,… Continue reading
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Cut Out for Cutting
She began cutting and we stopped talking, both of us listening, I think, to the sound of the scissors. For those of us enamored of the world of textiles, this sound is a little symphony. —Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending I keep a small bare-bones sewing kit upstairs for simple mending jobs. It’s a tin… Continue reading
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Hangin’ Out With Henri
I like to imagine I’m hanging out with Henri at his place, every horizontal surface layered with painted papers, cut-out shapes, and scraps. We chat in a relaxed way about this and that, work companionably in long stretches of silence, narrate process and observation to ourselves periodically as we investigate collage configurations and compositions. Every… Continue reading
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Précis
The major purpose of a précis is to present faithfully, as briefly and clearly as possible, the important ideas of a reading selection that is being ‘cut down.’ To ascertain those central important ideas, the writer of a précis has to read carefully, analytically, and reflectively. In my work with students of any age, when… Continue reading
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The Write Way
I think I was 14 years old when one of my younger sisters sweet talked my dad into letting her break our family’s 3-cookie-limit one night. I was furious! Not fair! Not doing things the RIGHT WAY! I marched upstairs and started a journal, writing out my indignation with words in a small notebook. How… Continue reading
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Snow Day!
Even though I am no longer a student, am no longer a full-time teacher, and have only a small case load of tutorial students in my new status as more retired than not, and even though it’s a Sunday and I am therefore not required to study, teach, or tutor in any case, a day… Continue reading
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I Hear Tell It Is 2024
Were we not just fretting about Y2K a year or two ago? Blink. 2024. Really? As this new year opens, I see that my studio isn’t rising to the challenge of containing my creative clutter so I take advantage of my tutorial schedule’s being on hold until next week and expand the mess into 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 life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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