Monthly Archives: February 2012
As The Color Wheel Turns
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” -Pablo Picasso For today’s color lesson, our assignment was to make a triadic painting using three colors from the wheel. Remember … Continue reading
Fun With Color
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas I’ve been lost in color swatches and wheels. I’ve mentioned before that I’m taking an online class about color from Chris Cozen and Julie Pritchard. In … Continue reading
What’s Original Anyway?
“We are totally arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all writers/artists who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas and soda pop of … Continue reading
Follow-Me! Follow-You!
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous – ‘I don’t know.’” -Wislawa Szymborska The above piece is mixed media on birch panel, sanded, more paints, scraped, sanded and finished with a layer of beeswax and then scraped again and … Continue reading
“He Dreamed He Could Sing”
Mixed media – acrylics, water color, collage elements. “Make for yourself a world you can believe in. It sounds simple, I know, but it’s not. Listen. There are a million worlds you could make for yourself. Everyone you know has … Continue reading
Road Trip-Back In The Studio-Color Class
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that the new world is born.” -Anais Nin I picked up my new car on Thursday and what do … Continue reading
Folk Art Piece
This is my first attempt at a larger canvas. I have one piece that was 18×10, but the majority of my two dimensional work up to this point has been 8×8 – 12×12. This one is 24×24. It was hard … Continue reading
My Valentine’s Poem
Love’s Measure Our gifts of attention show where our hearts belong in that first moment in quiet stillness transcendence is always possible in any living moment we can know love the secret lies in listening with your heart and discovering … Continue reading
Versatile Blogger Award
Meredith at Whynot Pottery included my blog in her Versatile Blogger Award post this morning — thank you! Blogging is such an interesting format for meeting like-minded folks. It always amazes me that anyone is at all interested in what I … Continue reading
On The Lookout for Joy
“In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.” -Rachel Naomi Remen I started working on my large folk art piece. This is a 24″x 24″ birch panel – … Continue reading
