Posted in Everyday Sketches, Uncategorized on December 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here they are! The donkey girls, Abby and Katya, from the Nativity procession on Dec. 21. And I believe that is Joseph with the glasses between them. It was a rare moment when the donkeys were quite well behaved - the girls too, I would have to say! For the rest [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on December 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
watercolor, Sharpee pen in Moleskine sketchbook
Around holidays, with family and all that busy-ness of the food and the gifts and, well, you know. . . I get to itching to do some art, but there’s no time for going out to the studio. So I’ve learned to sit in the midst of it with [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
paper collage, acrylic, stamping on Lama Li sketchbook paper
When you combine a winter solstice with a Christmas celebration you get a little bit of magic. In the little town of Bodega California where there are only a few hundred residents you can step back a few centuries. That’s what my son Ben and I did [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts, Paintings on December 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
We all love our angels, however they appear to us. For little girls angels are like fairies. I remember. They wear those sparklely sheer party clothes with sequins and gold and silver and they can fly on gossamer wings and grant all your prayers to come true. So when Haley and [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Everyday Sketches on December 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
When a sketchbooker gets dismayed, overwhelmed, stressed, confused, whatever, she sits down and does a sketch of it until things start making better sense. After all, we are all the creators of our very own lives. So when the holiday blues hit me (2 years ago) that’s just what I did. So I [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
collage, acrylic mediums and pigments, watercolor pencils, gel pens, you name it!
Please don’t spend any time trying to figure this one out. I mean sometimes you just have to doodle and this has been my doodle piece for days now - a few minutes here and there. It has the kind of texture [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts, Paintings on December 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Acrylic on illustration board, 20″ X 30″
There’s a story behind this painting, not just one but several, since it unfolded over a period of a month until finally I had to declare it finished and move on. There’s the obvious bird spirits with whom I commune in daylight and in dreams. Also during [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on December 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s that winter cold seeping deep tired snuggle down tune out holiday noise crush feeling. The bears and the plants know what to do. Hibernate.
So when I looked at my sketches from Thursday night figure group I started cutting to revive them from winter torpitude, pasting pieces to restore them, grabbing an old [...]
Posted in Nature Abstractions, Paintings on December 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
You must know by now how proud I am of my hens. You’d think I just became a grandma the way i brag. I found myself at the feed store announcing to the clerk who took my money, “The five chicks I got here in the spring? They are laying 4-5 beautiful [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on December 2, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Why is it that all figure models spell their names unconventionally? I’ve learned to ask them to spell their name. Of course Cassandra is not exactly a common name at this time and place, but she assured me that (at least) she spells it in the expected way. But wouldn’t you know [...]
