Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s still space in the March 8 workshop:
Soul Reflections: Contemplative Sketchbooking.
Check out the video on the right to get an idea of what it’s about (click the green button on the little screen).
In this one day workshop at my studio/garden in North Sebastopol, CA we will approach art making with the attitude of an [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Workshops on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
“Clownface” was my 4 minute painting of the feeling of silliness in the Vision Painting workshop. Later in the day this was followed by a demo I did of painting on rice paper collage texture, which turned into this “Sportman” character. What I mean by this is that he literally appeared unbidden on [...]
Posted in Workshops on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
For the Sunday morning workshop warm up we did seven simultaneous paintings. We had 5 minutes to work on each one, then pass it to the person on the right. Then each person got to take home the one she had started. Everyone was pretty amazed at how relevant the results were [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks, Figure studio sketches, Workshops on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the new “wall of visions”. My studio will never be the same since a group of inspired vision seekers painted here all weekend, fearlessly and colorfully exploring the great unknown with paint and collage. Have you ever seen such a colorful clothesline? This was our warm-up where we painted [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Acrylic on illustration board, 11″ X 7″
In this Fantascape #3 I seem to have jumped into the sea! A dream of sailing in the South Pacific perhaps (on Miki and her brother’s boat?) A sailing regatta (I’ve been listening to the book on CD, Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sumi ink, acrylic, collage, pen on Lama Li sketchbook
Why do I rush around so much? Good question. I mean I have the “to do” list that everyone has and I’m always a bit behind where I want to be. So I dash - to the house - to the car - to the [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Acrylic on illustration board, 7″ X 11″
All those places we go in our day- and night- dreams where we are unhampered by the boundaries of logical mind. . .can we go there also by making a painting or by looking at one? This is what the Fantascapes are about, unfettered travel to the imaginal [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on February 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Watercolor and pen in Moleskin w/c sketchbook
Wanting to capture the last rays of February sun I sat to sketch on the garden chair which has a table attached. Some of you may have noticed that I have been neglecting my chickens for quite some time now. You would understand that one does [...]
Posted in Fantascapes, Nature Abstractions, Paintings on February 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Acrylic mixed with flow medium, gesso on illustration board
Some months ago I made the acquaintance, through our blogs, of an enchanting French artist living in Spain. It has grown into not just a friendship but a creative collaboration, and all without ever having met in person. Miki has the kind of unfettered creative imagination [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some dreams are more real than the waking state. Like this one last night. I woke from it at 3 am and wrote it down so it wouldn’t get “lost”.
I’m driving up and up a mountain and realize I’m on auto pilot. Even though I’m alone in the car and in the [...]
