What inspired my art play today? Aggravation…not the game…the emotion. Thank goodness for Julia Cameron and her morning pages from The Artist’s Way so I could get it all out of my system! I have used Morning Pages to write, on paper with lines and an ink pen, what I’m feeling, thinking, etc. without worrying about grammar, punctuation, spelling, [...]
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Why is play important? Why is happiness important? They are the same question to me. If we talk about kids, most would agree it is necessary for children to play. It plays a significant role in how they develop socially, their physical well being, and cognitive development. But why is it just good for kids? [...]
I didn’t have what I needed…so I used what I had around to create it! I felt a little like McGyver when the idea popped into my head to make a flat calligraphy dip pen just so I could write Star Wars in my art journal for this week’s Let’s Play link party. I’m [...]
I want to be the type of person who chronicles every day in a scrapbook or planner or journal. Reality check…I’m not. I might do it a few days, then miss a bunch, then do it again, but by March, I am usually so far behind that I never pick it up again. But what I [...]
Amazon boxes mean cardboard is everywhere thanks to some last minute shopping…which means I have a cheap and plentiful place to paint and play. A little Santa on my counter that was left over from another day’s play (you can see it here) sparked the silly story to come. I never know where my mind [...]
The twists and turns of time have been on my mind with the new year coming and what is on my mind comes out in my play. I was darn sure I knew exactly how my life was going to go. I was 18 and full of wisdom…or so I thought. All this self reflection [...]
It is super easy for me to get caught up in the overwhelming to-do list of the holidays, the rush to get to every event, and all at the same time be in the moment to feel the joy of the season. To get to the joy of season part, I had to find a [...]
Art journaling is all about capturing moments for me. And sometimes, I want to get the date in there. But there is a catch. I generally dislike my handwriting so I’ve created a stencil that solves this issue for me, the Never Ending Calendar stencil in 4×4 and 6×6 sizes for StencilGirl. Plus, I have [...]
I was Gelli printing® with the Doodle it Dream Landscape stencil and had the idea to use it as a coloring page. All those wonderful lines in black paint just screamed opportunity to play to me. You can see how how to make a reverse print with the Gelli Plate® in a video here. But…there was an [...]
What am I sharing for this week’s Let’s Play link party? Plop, plop, but no fizz fizz, but oh what a relief play is…okay I might be a little slap happy from the play…As I was playing with a little Gelli Plate® and a stencil, I got the most wonderful thrill plopping it right on the paper. In [...]
