Crazy, crazy, crazy week. Some good crazy. Some necessary crazy. And some completely useless crazy. A normal week. But I hadn’t had enough art and paint time so it felt so much crazier. Thankfully, I made it to the studio to play! Of course, I should have been working on the new workshop or the [...]
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Seth Apter over at The Altered Page is hosting his annual hunt for buried treasure – in your old posts. I looked back and found this! Check out his site- so many great places to unearth creative treasure! Excavating Paint Posted on July 10, 2011 by Carolyn Alcohol dissolves paint. When I heard that I [...]
Black is a paint color I rarely use on my Gelli Plate but every now and again I do. So I cleaned off my brayer in my vintage journal like I do with the rainbow of colors I usually use. And it sat. And sat. Most of my other colors get lost or look muddy [...]
The sun is shining, the grass is green, and the peonies will be blooming any day now! In honor of spring, I am working in greens. I usually work in a full rainbow of colors so I wasn’t sure how this would turn out… A background made long ago that sparked the green theme. [...]
I used to fight making mistakes. Pointing out all my imperfections to myself with a strong dose of harsh judgement. No shocker that being creative often ended in frustration for me back then. But it doesn’t any more. Why? I just say Oops. This is a random mess of a page. I was using up [...]
I was spinning my wheels, not really going anywhere artistically today. Ever have those days? Well, it all changed when I started ripping things up! Many moons ago I had extra paint on my palette and brushes so I made circles on a piece of ephemera. Then it went onto the pile of [...]
This started as a way to loosen up and get the gremlins out of my head. It wasn’t until I was sewing on the quote that realized how true it was…I just wanted that cranky gremlin in my head to shut up. I started doing something, anything, to get that gremlin to go away. By [...]
I always invite my muse to come into my studio so I thought it was only reasonable that I pay her a visit over spring break a few weeks back. Where does she live? In Turks and Caicos. How do I know she lives here? Because when I am there I am inspired like no [...]
Sifting through a drawer I bumped into my bingo cards. My precious, must save, can’t bear to use, bingo cards. The words on 1 really caught my attention- 12 different ways to win on every card. Just like life, there are always lots of ways to “win”. My old ledger colored randomly from [...]
I never who will show up when I get my paintbrush out…especially when I am in a fabulous mood! This is a cheap cheap cheap spiral notebook that I used to clean a couple of paintbrushes. I hate to waste paint so I will use extra paint on just about anything I can find. [...]
