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Essence?
I finished this piece over a month ago, but have had some issues with getting things photographed due to my camera not working and the weather not cooperating (to say the least!). It's hard for me to...
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Ephemeral
Often I am struck, and deeply touched, by how willing some people are to share their inner life with their blog readers. When I read posts such as Jude Hill's'As a child I was very afraid', or Denise...
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Searching for RoyGBiv: GREEN
I'm not feeling very wordy today, but let me just say that "GREEN" came around at the perfect time. After an extended period of WHITE...and GRAY, GREEN is popping out all over at long last! The...
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Blueprint for Enlightenment II
Blueprint for Enlightenment IIingredients: vintage book cover, vintage ephemera, woodblock prints, image transfer, Derwent Inktense watercolorpencil,vintage game pieces, metallic gel penI had lots of...
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Collage as an Art Form
There is just something about collage; I'm not sure if I can really find the words to explain why, but it continues to fascinate and mesmerize me like nothing else. Is it because of the juxtaposition...
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The Dharma and the Dao
This piece took form very organically, though it probably doesn't look like it. I had this figure from an earlier work that had just never worked out, and I really didn't think it was likely that I'd...
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BLUE!
BLUE is... the James River in Richmond, Virginia on this particular day in October... The clear sky on a fall day at Shabo Mekaw...The cystalline water of a Rocky Mountain lake reflecting the beautiful...
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Ephemeral II
When it's over, I want to say all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When it's over, I don't want to wonderif I have made of my life something...
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Fragments of Memory
New work:Fragments of Memoryingredients: vintage book cover, various vintage ephemera(book page, post cards, notebook scrap, envelope, dress pattern), vintage textiles, image transfers, colored pencil...
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Back to Shabo-Mekaw
We hadn't been to our beautiful get-away out in the country for some weeks, mostly because we were busy with this:....scraping and painting the house (which isn't finished yet),and this: ...planting...
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Where I've Been
If you haven't seen me around blogland lately, it's because I was on vacation in Sarasota, Florida! In keeping with the solemn tradition of vacationers throughout time, I now feel obliged to bore you...
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Where have I been? The Dali Museum
While I was on vacation, I visited the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which houses the largest collection of Dali's works outside Europe. The building itself was quite amazing. Looking down at...
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Just for Fun
Since my mind is kind of stuck in the surrealism mode, related to thinking about the Dali Museum, I thought I'd share something I did recently. I always thought it would be fun to try one of those...
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Where I've Been, part 3
While vacationing in Florida, I couldn't help but be struck by the difference in vegetation. The plants that people in Florida routinely grow in their yards are what we in Kentucky might refer to as...
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Paradox II
Quantum Theory forces us to see the universe not as a collection of physical objects, but rather as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of a unified whole....
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Play Time: Word Game
I've always wanted to keep a sketch book of daily drawings. I did this when I was in school, because sketchbooks were usually a course requirement. While working as a substitute teacher, which I did...
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Roy G Biviolet
Violet is the color to find for this month's Searching For Roy G Biv, hosted by Jennifer Coyne Qudeen and Julie Booth. Here are a few of the violets I found: wood violets - A bit literal, it's true,...
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News: Art After Hours and Book Cover
I have some good news to share! First, my work appears as the front cover illustration of the Spiritual Naturalist Society's Year 1 Anthology, which has just been released. I'm very excited to have...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Pink Dress
Pink Dress 5.25 x 5.25 inchesNot a very creative title, I guess, but here is my second weekly collage. Everything I used in this one is vintage, except for the peach and green swirly...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Entradas
Again, all the materials came from the mess on my work table.Entradasingredients: vintage map, notebook page, ledger page, school writing tablet page, and book pages; vintage lace; magazine cutoutI...
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