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Long Time, No Post
Looking at my blog just now, I was shocked to see that I hadn't posted anything since last month's Searching for Roy G Biv. I keep meaning to do a post, but sometimes life just keeps happening.So for...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Copper Cliff
Back to my weekly quick collages, and hopefully, posting much more regularly.Copper Cliffcollage, 5.5 x 5 inchesInstead of the short quotes I usually post with my collages, I thought I'd share with you...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Reverie
Reveriecollage, 8.5 x 7.25 inchesDown near the bottomof the crossed-out listof things you have to do today,between "green thread"and "broccoli" you findthat you have penciled "sunlight."Resting on the...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Biosphere
Biospherecollage, 4 x 5 inches“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.”...
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Invisible Influence
Invisible Influencecollage, 7.25 x 6.75 inches"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the...
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Drawing Challenge: Shinrin Yoku
Shinrin Yoku is something I do a lot, though I hadn't known those words for it until Veronica named it the theme for her drawing challenge.Shinrin Yoku is a Japanese phrase that translates as "forest...
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Drawing Challenge: Sixes and Sevens
"Sixes and sevens" is a phrase I've heard, but never really gave much thought to. When I found out it was this week's drawing challenge, I just had to look it up; inquiring minds like mine want to...
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Drawing Challenge: Cocoon
This week's drawing challenge, hosted by Patrice, is COCOON. An fascinating concept to me, since much of my art has transformation, or metamorphosis, as a continuing theme. A cocoon is something that...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Yellow-legs in Manitoba Slough
Yellow-legs in Manitoba Sloughcollage, 7 x 5.5 inchesThe love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore...
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Storytelling With Collage
If you happen to follow me on facebook, you'll know that my work appears in Roxanne Evans Stout's new book, Storytelling With Collage: Techniques for Layering, Color and Texture. I'm extremely excited...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Being Human
Being HumanThe bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet. Yehuda BergRead more at:...
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Healing Mandala
Have you ever made a piece of art that completely baffles you? I made this piece back during the winter, and I just have no idea what to think of it. It's not really like anything else I've ever made,...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Connections
Connectionscollage, 5 x 5.5 inches“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever...
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How to Push the Envelope
If you've ever felt stuck, like you're basically just doing the same painting/collage/sculpture (or whatever) over and over again, you're not alone. Once you find a technique, style, or process that's...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Going East
Going Eastcollage, 6 x 4.25 inches“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no...
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Drawing Challenge: Prayer/ Meditation/ Still Point
Indestructible Truthcollage, 6.25 x 6.25 inchesingredients: vintage ephemera, image transfer, ribbon, azalea blossom, featherThe lovely Tammie Lee of Beauty Flows is hosting this week's drawing...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Golden Day
Golden Daycollage, 4 x 6 inches“I thought the earth remembered me,she took me back so tenderly,arranging her dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds.I slept as never before, a stone on the...
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It's That Time Again...
It's that magical time again, when all the plants and trees are waking up from their winter's sleep...Out at our place in the country, the tiny, delicate bluets are blooming... ... as are the trout...
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Weekly Quick Collage: Landscape I
Landscape Icollage, 4 x 6.75 inchesIn honor of Earth Day (yesterday), I thought I would post a landscape. Making a collage in a landscape format seems like it would be fairly simple, but for me it was...
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The Taft Museum (part 1)
Yesterday we went to the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati to see a special exhibit called Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape. Since Daubigny was an artist I had heard little about, I...
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