Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s Butterfly and Butterfly Duo stencils I wanted to make a book out of them. Well, I finally did it! And along the way…made a few Oopsies but one totally pushed me to use a tool in my studio that I try to avoid at all costs! You can see [...]
Art Journaling
It’s Tuesday and that means a new Let’s Play link party for all of us to share what we’ve been creating! What play have I been up to? I’ve been making a plan and then not following it. The plan came about while I was checking out the all the fun stuff shared in last week’s [...]
Is creating always easy for me? Does it always go well? Do I always feel happy about what I create? Is it always easy to say Oops? Heavens NO! Here is what happened in my art journal on a particularly challenging day. Nothing serious or anything, just one of those days when everyday stress collided [...]
I love creating big pieces of color and play. It’s my happy time when I am just letting the pattern and color build up. But what do I do with all those papers? One thing I do is die cut them. Here’s the paper I made with paints and spray inks and my Connected Eyes [...]
“Can I go over to Christi’s house?” “Can Maria come over?” As a kid, I was always asking to go to a friends house or to have a friend or two come over. Now I am an adult and I still want to play! So I am interrupting my grown up day for a little play! [...]
I am going to gush a bit here. I am a huge fan of Brené Brown and her message about shame and vulnerability. I loved her And I Thought it Was Just Me…and The Gifts of Imperfection changed how I saw the world…and Daring Greatly spoke to my soul. So I wondered what on [...]
I am absolutely addicted to the fineline applicator. Why? Because it lets me write on just about anything in any color I want. The way the tip is designed, it doesn’t clog which is critical for me because I am not willing to clean. Not one of these has clogged on me yet. Beth Figiel [...]
I had a great time talking with Heidi Easley for her free online event, Creating From Your Soul. If you’ve just listened to the interview (and you can watch it here), here’s a link to the free workshop I mentioned. She asked each artist to share a tip or trick so I showed my way [...]
UPDATE ***This version is now closed to new registrations, but check out the latest version of Permission to Play here.*** Want to create, to play, to be loose and free but not quite sure where to start or how to do it? That’s why I created this free workshop, to help you reawaken your creativity by [...]
It’s that time of year when people I know love to carve up a pumpkin. It probably won’t shock you to know that I’d rather paint a pumpkin than carve it. While they carved, I used paint to create a background on my pumpkin, just like I would if I was creating a background in [...]
