Posted in Everyday Sketches, Figure studio sketches, Uncategorized on October 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a harrowing week of hen hazing (as in the troubling acts of violence again freshmen recruits to fraternities). On Sunday night I slipped my two little Silkie hens into the coop with the five “large” hens (they’ve been living separately for a couple months because I didn’t want them pecked by the [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Workshops on October 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
While the students were engrossed with their gluing and painting and splattering and contemplating it all, one of them wrote a poem, which we read as a dessert after lunch. An exerpt of it follows:
Relax, reach in, find just you
Pour it, spread it, sumi new
Orange, black, how Halloween -
Expressing emotions that have haunted
Whew! [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on October 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Seems like I used to work a lot harder when teaching art workshops. In yesterday’s Contemplative Sketchbooking Workshop here at my Studio in the Orchard the students played so hard that they got a lot of work done, while I mostly went around and made encouraging sounds and took a lot of pictures, which [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on October 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Before I fell asleep I asked to have a visit from a spirit guide, planting a hopeful seed for a night of dreams. My request was granted. In my dream I was looking out my window at the valley while talking on the phone with a friend. I noticed that instead of [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on October 23, 2007 | 7 Comments »
We have no street lights here at night. No lights to cheer us on the short walk to the art studio. Flashlights show just enough of the path but keep the rest of the night secret. . .usually. I mean there’s starlight, a clear view of The Little Prince’s planet sparkling away [...]
Posted in Travel Sketchbooks, Uncategorized on October 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Haley and Cammie and I got together this afternoon for our monthly art workshop/playshop and as usual they were game for my nutty idea - this time to travel through the solar system as the Little Prince did and visit some other asteroids. Being wonderful story tellers as well as talented artists, they dictated [...]
Posted in Nature Abstractions on October 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
My saucy hens made up for their imperious natures today by presenting me with no less than 6 beautiful eggs, each a slightly different color and shape. So what could I do but celebrate them in a painting?
8″ X 12″ Acrylic on paper
Posted in Everyday Sketches, Uncategorized on October 18, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Sometimes I feel like The Little Prince when he traveled to the other asteroids, remember? This particular one is right behind my studio.
“Ah! Here is my subject!” clucks Gladys as I arrive in the morning.
“I order you to put feed in my tray, and make it snappy! “
“Why do you speak to me like [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on October 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know anyone who drinks as much coffee as my artist/blogger friend Miki in Spain, as many as 10 cups a day!? One small cup with lots of cream and sugar is my limit or my heart starts thumping and racing. Out of her supreme love for coffee and friendship she’s started this [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on October 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Winter weather in October. Sheets of rain, soggy chickens, muck outside and in. Meaning we keep tracking in the mud from outside, but also. . . mucking around with painting. . . for the twentieth time I try to “fix” my painting (which is way too hideous to show here) and realize there’s [...]
