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Precious Metals III
The simple act of walking home on a beautiful Autumn day can strike inspiration for creativity. And isn’t that a wonderful thing? In fact, last November I was walking home with a friend when I came upon four ginkgo trees on the side walk. The abundance of leaves on the trees and on the ground […]
Tulips
Last month I had a vase filled with gorgeous tulips. I took many photographs of the flowers as they opened. This photo inspired the piece I am working on now. I chose to use a method that I learned from Denise Oyama Miller several years ago — she calls it broken color. I like the […]
3-Year Anniversary
Today is the 3-year anniversary of my first blog posting. Keeping a commitment to this blog — really a form of journaling — is part of my sincere wish to be a person who lives in the moment. Being mindful of what is happening — the big events as well as the tiny ones — […]
Sketching
I think it’s not so much a problem of lack of inspiration for sketching, it’s more a matter of being overwhelmed by everything that could be sketched. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it for now. For this sketch I played with creating the background wash first. When it was dry I simply put […]
Distracted by Dryer Lint
I cleaned out my lint trap the other day and couldn’t throw it out. You see, I usually toss the lint so frequently that I don’t have much to toss. Thanks to my recent slovenliness in this area, I had a nice 1/4″ deep pile of lint in an interesting shade of gray. Well, one […]
Inspiration Leads to Precious Metals
Remember those postcards I created using the themes of gold, silver and copper? Making those little gems inspired my putting the three together into a larger format. Thinking about all that glitz naturally led to beads. It sounded like such a good idea and then I started beading — that’s 39″ of beading on a […]
Mendelssohn – Creating an Art Quilt
People often ask how long it takes me to create an art quilt. That is a very difficult question to answer: Each quilt has a unique inspiration and execution time. Some small pieces have taken a few hours or days. Others have been in the making for much longer. Mendelssohn is an example of the […]
