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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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Walk Right In
This is one of those art inquiries where my whole self just walked right in to presence, to the call and response of creating something with the limited materials I had with me, in the setting where I found myself, letting the hand-and-eye dance move through me in whatever way it would. Continue reading
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Do I Care What Day It Is? I Do Not.
Steady gentle rain tapping on the skylight in my study as I type. Print collage, a torn swatch of fabric (thank you, MaryAnn!), three French knots (one tangled), a paint marker, India ink and dip pen, a Stabilo Woody. Art journal p.1 roughed up a little. Feels great! Continue reading
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Super Summer 23!
Two weeks ago while up on a step ladder re-siding our garage, Dave took a tumble, a tumble of the fractured-two-vertebrae sort. To our great gratitude—and astonishment!—no spinal cord damage, nothing else broken, no internal bleeding, no concussion. Following a few days of advanced trauma care flat on his back in hospital, he has returned 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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