Triumph and defeat seem to be best friends in my studio. Every time one showed up, the other was just around the corner. Perhaps what I thought of as defeat is simply being way outside of my comfort zone. The plan was to do the color prompt for Fall Fearless and Fly. I had [...]
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I am happy- there is paint on my fingers! Every so often my muse takes long vacations away from me so I work on the mundane parts of art then. Here is a piece of rosin paper (big cheap roll from the hardware store!) with tags gesso’d on. I have sheets of these I made [...]
“Too many word stamps. You never use them all,” said my irritable inner critic. Lately my inner critic has been full of constructive advice said in a gentle tone. Not tonight. She was in foul mood. But I can be a real pain the rear too- just ask my kids! So I decided to show [...]
Just a quick post today- lots to be done and not enough time…The sunshine lately has just brought on a sense of joy that led me to start playing around again with my hardware store punchinella. It is such an inexpensive supply – especially since it is self adhesive! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV2vbP41YWw I made a huge sheet [...]
Thank you all for your kind words as I celebrate my first article in Somerset Studio! Good news is always better when it is shared with friends. As I am writing this I am deep in negotiations with YouTube, my internet provider, and my computer. Apparently there is discord in my electronic world and they [...]
Being creative for me involves lots of stuff. Thankfully, Creative Every Day helps keep me on the path to using my stuff everyday. I am envious of artists who use just one medium and can neatly put all their supplies on one small desk. Not envious enough to get rid of some of mine or [...]
This works fabulously when the paint palette is loaded with a rainbow of colors, especially if you are finished painting for the day and there is still loads of paint on the palette. I just dipped the cardboard circle (a fancy tool – the center from an old roll of masking tape) into the paint [...]
Watercolors can add a subtle background to an art journal page. This is a very serendipitous way to add a layer to a background. Here is my purple tag background after stamping with watercolors. You can see it in a finished journal page here. It started as this: Step 1: Start with a prepped journal [...]
I’ve been making space in my studio for 2012. What does that mean? Facing the reality that if I haven’t gotten to something in a very long while I probably won’t and that space needs to be freed up for other creative endeavors. I have had the slick stix by crayola for a very long [...]
Art Every Day Month Day 9! I had an 18″x24″ canvas to paint. I grabbed one of my favorite brushes – but really it would take me all day to paint it with that little thing, especially since this was just a background layer. My impatience led my hands to start smearing paint around – [...]
