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Doodling: Let Your Mind Play—Remind It of the Value of Play
I’m often doddle and draw on non-art papers—simply because I’m sitting at my desk working and all that I have immediately around me is office supplies—bond copier paper and Post-It Notes™. (You see both of those types of paper in the first image today.) I wrote earlier this month, and many other times in the […]
Journaling on a Circle Grid
For eleven days in September this year I worked on a “grid” made of circles, just for grins. I thought you might enjoy seeing the process and how the project grew. The first image in this post is the completed grid. I’m going to lose the quotation marks around the word grid—I see it […]
Ink Only? Paint It? Or Let It Go?
Everyday we make choices in our journals. The simplest for me is stop at ink only? Paint over the ink (opaquely or transparently)? Or leave the texture alone all together? We get to make a different, individual decision every time we turn a page in our journal. Long ago I was more strict in my […]
Collage Fun with Doodles
Of course I doodle chickens all the time. And I like to save those doodles. They depict friends who come out of my brain. Characters with whom I want to spend more time. If you’ve got a pile of doodles; or if you’ve got sketches that aren’t quite finished, but which have parts that […]
Another Look at Hair
Today, another look at hair, this time with opaque paint on a pre-collaged page spread. I was working with leftover Schmincke Horadam gouache paint—mixes I had used in another painting. I mostly used filberts that were I 1/2 inch wide. I selected the stiffest brushes I had because this background was difficult to move the […]
Repairing Our Creative Capacities
Everyone has ups and downs, blips in the continuum of their creative efforts (or any of their efforts in life for that matter). It’s important to remember that we have the capacity to repair our creativity by being tenaciously devoted to our practice. We need to be intentional, regular, and playful, but not sloppy and […]
The Flux and Flow of Journaling
Often I work ahead in my journal, adding collage to different pages. I’ll deal with the collage when I get to that page. Sometimes it means I paint over the collage, sometimes I work around it, sometimes I add more collage. Usually I think I’ll work in a certain way on a page when I […]
Registration for Textures Class Closes Friday
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In Contest—Paper Comparisons
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Simple Approaches for Backgrounds—A Five-Part Series: Part 2 Multi-color Backgrounds
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