Here is the my 100 day project - Days 17-24. The first four days are inspired by Celtic art in my Keys to Drawing Celtic Knots & Illumination course. This time done using pen and watercolors. I love how this daily art process reflects life!
Read MoreHere is the my 100 day project - Days 9-16. I keep learning new things… and going new places definitely effects my daily visual entries.
Read MoreThe video in this post shows how I make an easy accordion or concertina journal along with inspirational ways you can use it.
Read MoreHere is my 100 day project so far - Days 1-8. It has gone as expected with a pleasant surprise.
Read MoreWonder - word of the year poetry journal finished and flip-through. In this journal made out of watercolor paper, I featured and wrote various types of poetry inspired by my word of the year. Beginning with poetry printed on paper, stenciling with watercolor, finishing with pen and a bit of collage.
Read MoreI’m getting ready for the 100 day project: #100daysofmyvisualdiary. Even this early in the process, I’ve already learned something.
Read MoreIt’s a good time to jumpstart my creative life and connection with other creatives through a project like The 100 Day Project. Will you join me?
Read MoreGetting back into making art, having a word for the year and adding a new twist to a Word of the Year Journal, Vintage style.
Read MoreI’m just going to be transparent here. It’s been a hard journey the past few years. After rallying in 2020-2021 I began to lose my hope and vision. This post tells a bit of my journey from desolation back to consolation.
Read MoreThe journey continues with an update from the trailer with a short video. I’m exploring how to navigate the journey into the unknown future and nurture creativity and joy.
Read MoreThe journey continues as now I’ve moved out of my dream studio and home and into our trailer. I had grown accustomed to going in my studio and picking what I wanted or needed to work with and start making. It is an adjustment indeed! Looking at this move as an adventure helps look forward with anticipation and not panic, but it’s still not easy …
Read MoreI’ve been going through every inch of my studio and our home to clean out, get rid of what is no longer needed, and trying to decide what that is. We are looking to downsize so I know I will be going through the process again from boxes when we move in to our next home. To be honest, this process feels drastic, and yet I have peace in the midst of the turmoil. There is even a seed of excitement growing in thinking, ‘What could be next?’
Read MoreThis is the eighth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in Real Life.’ Joyfully making miniature nature houses aka fairy houses.
Read MoreThis is the seventh post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in Real Life.’ A house-shaped shadowbox with an arts & crafts flare filled with memories, mini journals, nature and hope.
Read MoreThis is the sixth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ Not knowing when our family would be together again, I painted a peg doll for each person in our family. I painted two of each person and kept one for myself, and am sending each family their own family peg dolls.
Read MoreThis is the fifth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ I’ve started the rewarding experience of making a forest meadow journal to chronicle my walks, thoughts, wildlife and nature discoveries. I’m learning to hold the opposites of the season, beauty and decay, light and darkness.
Read MoreThis is the fourth post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ Earlier this year I was struggling with sadness more than usual and needed to fill up my joy bucket, and for me one of the best ways to fill that bucket is to create something. I got the idea of buying some unfinished wood toys and painting them for the grandkids.
Read MoreThis is the third post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’ I’ve started the rewarding experience of making a forest meadow journal to chronicle my walks, thoughts, wildlife and nature discoveries. ‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special.
Read More‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special. This is the second post dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.
Read MoreThe definition of Art that has resonated with me the most over the years is ‘Art is to make special.’ If that is true, then it is possible to live an artful life by making the little, simple things special. I've decided to write some posts dedicated to making everyday things special by finding ‘Art in real life.’
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