june at noon

In my creative space this week: I’m breaking out some Autumnal colors and just playing around with leaves and old drawings from three (!) years ago. And here’s a thing about my ever-changing color tastes: I’m really liking the rich berry colors I’m seeing this Fall. But I thought I was liking these colors before [...]

The bad news: I have tendonitis or arthritis or some sort of -itis in my thumb (that’s an official diagnosis, of course). It is making simple things, like opening containers or typing on the computer, a bit painful. The good news: It’s in my right hand, and I draw and paint with my left hand. [...]

I’m sure we’re all a little in shock that I actually managed to add a new piece to the shop this week. I certainly am. I plan to add more to that one to create a series. And then there’s this piece: I’ve been working on it very slowly, and I like what I have [...]

I’ve got multiple things on the go in my creative space this week. I continue with my artistic identity crisis, so I’m just doing a little of everything and feeling a bit aimless. It actually affects my mood negatively when I get in these “who am I?” funks, so I’m making plans to snap myself [...]

Today’s creativity has been scattered throughout the hours of the day. There was some more collaboration with little artists-in-residence earlier, but tonight—finally, and quite late—I’m doing some creative play that’s just my own. I bought a new Tombow pen and am experimenting with its water-soluble properties. Quite apropos as I listen to the rain continue [...]

This week I’m putting together a custom travel kit with some basic art supplies so I can make use of them on the go. I put some thin magnetic strips on the bottoms of the watercolor pans so they won’t fall out but can still be removed for cleaning or refilling. Then I added a [...]

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed that I’ve been revamping my gallery page a bit. Once I started accumulating a larger body of work, I realized my existing design just didn’t quite suffice any more. I needed something a little cleaner, more organized, and easier to navigate. You may [...]

This week I’ve been working on preparing pages for my “Junk Mail Artist’s Book,” the last project I’m doing along with Carla Sonheim’s wonderful online art courses. I had no idea what the shoulds were, no idea what it ought to be like in the end, no idea if I could catch the “surreal” vibe [...]

I’m working my way through “Faces 101″ with Carla Sonheim. We’re going to draw 101 faces over the course of the week, and they’ll be in a variety of styles and techniques. Today is one-liner drawings (you can’t lift the marker from the paper once you’ve started) with some smearing of the marker for shading, [...]

The aftereffect of Cushion Week continues. (That being that you have to look at all the photos of my recovered throw pillows.) As such: This rocker needed a new sitting cushion too, so I used an old pillow case and some ribbon. It is so much happier now. Log Cabin in brights and linen. Central [...]