After painting eight wooden eggs, I was starting to feel as if inspiration had fled. Nevertheless, I decided to paint three wooden eggs today, even though I had absolutely no plan in mind for them. Unfortunately, my creativity was taking a nap… I looked at the eggs and blanked out. I didn’t have a clue… […]
Imagination, come back!!! Read More »
It’s Wordless Wednesday, so the colorful art is going to do all of the talking!
hues and random art things Read More »
In today’s blog post, I’m going to talk about four color-related things. I made another painting with the matte pastels on canvas, and I attempted to create a color wheel within the center of the flower, but it really didn’t work well. Which is okay. The goal of daily practice is to sharpen skills, not
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Happy April! This month brings another edition of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, along with the annual Blogging from A to Z challenge, always held in April. This year, I’m collecting challenges like my dad used to collect stamps. Yes, my dad was quite the stamp collector and he and I bonded over the stamps that
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Today, I traveled to Florida. It was amazing to go from a frozen wasteland to warm and sunny. There are palm trees and live oaks and more. I will talk about them in the next few days. One of the great things about traveling is seeing different types of plants and birds. The big highlight
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on feeling invisible It’s easy to feel invisible in a world that doesn’t always celebrate our differences as human beings. A world that wants everyone to fit a mold that we don’t fit. A world that sees our differences as weaknesses, not as our unique individuality. I remember, when I was in high school, wondering
It snowed and was very cold most of the day. Not as cold as yesterday, but still a good day to stay inside. And paint. Now, if there were only something to paint. So, I started drawing random lines and thought that was fun. And slowly, little by little, I added color to the spaces
Today, for my photography challenge, the prompt is “black and white.” For the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, it’s “four.” So, I am combining the two to create this mystery story, which I am making up on the spur of the moment, based on photographs that I took between yesterday and today of four different places. The
down for the count… of four? Read More »
Today, after a long week doing journalism for the local newspaper, I decided that it was time for a complete change of pace. I got out a pencil and a bunch of brush markers, and some small pieces of hot press watercolor cards, and I created a design. I had no idea of the image
In my career as a human being, I have doubted myself over and over again. I read that people are their own worst critics, and that is certainly true for me. I gave up art at the age of 15 when I suddenly and with little reason decided that I couldn’t draw. Actually, there was
Q is for questioning myself Read More »