Fun with art

This is a piece of fabric - heavy canvas - that I painted with heavy body acrylics and then allowed them to dry.
I started to write with a calligraphy pen, but then I decided it needed more. Using Traci Bautista, the class I took with her, and the book and video. I have been [...]

after the great cleanup

Well, after the great studio dump cleanup, I was able to think and to do art. It was my greatest wish that this would be the result. I’m amazed at how well it worked!On Thursday I painted! It was such a pleasure to know where my favorite brushes were, to pull the paints out by [...]

Studio Space Revisited

So, as promised in the last post, I have placed photos of the newly organized studio. It’s not done yet. In fact, I’m starting to think that it’s a constant thing, and that’s ok. At least I can walk through hear and get to what I need and I know what I have. That’s a [...]

Reclaiming my studio space

It’s been a strange week. I got up on Monday and decided my studio needed quite a bit of work. It’s only Tuesday, but I feel like it’s a Thursday!
What inspired me to do this? I had taken some time this weekend to really think about my goals for my art and my studio, [...]

Back in Town

Last week I was in Boston, where I spent some time walking through the city, remembering why I loved going to school there so much and reminiscing about the times Dave and I spent there while we were dating. Some photos of Boston can be seen here. And we saw some of our friends, [...]

Unraveling

I am finally finding time to finish up the projects I started at Art Unraveled. This is a woven water color I created in Jacqueline Sullivan’s class at Art Unraveled. I had completed the weaving and the 8″ x 10″ background in class, as well as the watercolor that was used in the collage. However, [...]

Illustration Friday

I’m a week behind in Artwords, but I wanted to post this because I had a ton of fun with it. The topic was “Synchronicity” and I read the topic, took a nap, and this was the vision that came to me in my dreams:
I thought a long time about this topc, but when it [...]