Posted in Everyday Sketches on July 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
OMG!!! I was just sitting here after dinner working on the computer, gazing out my window at the apple trees laden with ripe fruit, when, clear as a bell came a “Cockadoodle doo!” from directly under my window where the chicken pen is. The hen pen, mind you. The chicks I raised [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Figurative Abstracts on July 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I attended a Vision Painting workshop with Ina Rolshoven yesterday which combined some of my favorites - meditation, movement, and painting to music. We were asked to choose themes, which I did only relunctantly since I prefer to watch and see what happens. I picked Nature and Spirit and just held them loosely [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on July 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Brushes and paint only were my self imposed guidelines for figure studio this week. I brought some acrylic abstracts I’d painted over pieces of old watercolor paintings and five acrylic colors. I’m feeling my way into what I want to do. THis isn’t quite it yet, but that’s the challenge of painting. [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks on July 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Just back from a three day mini vacation with the family - always an adventure incorporating the needs of two teenage boys with middle aged parents. It came together most successfully with our campus tour of the University of California Santa Cruz where we were shuttled about the breathtakingly beautiful campus and given a [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts on July 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I bought these little 5″ X 7″ stretched canvases for trying out ideas. In an attempt to get rid of the canvasy texture, I primed one with a new acrylic medium, let it dry, then figured I’d put some paint on it to see what happened. But I’m reading all these wonderful books [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes I use art as a way of communicating with an inner voice. It’s a kind of Shamanic journeying, and so I have to be ready for whatever comes through. This one is about abandoning fear and recognizing that destruction of the old makes way for the new.
The process for this one [...]
