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Be Curious….
I started a piece at a Reflective Art Activity hosted by a workplace. The background was made by layering crayon, ripped book text, and acrylic paint – drips & splatters. About 2 weeks later, I pulled this out to do some playing with molding paste and texture. As I used one of my stencils (face […]
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DLP Week 3: Color
Continuing on the DLP track….enjoying the challenges and approaching things in a different way. Here is the challenge for this week, and what I did. January Theme The Blank Page and How to Face It! January 17 Art Challenge: The Color Wheel Journal Prompt: “I found I could say things with color and shapes that […]
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DLP Week 2: Gesso
Week 2 of DLP focuses on: January Theme The Blank Page and How to Face It! January 10 Art Challenge: Gesso Journal Prompt: “The beginning is always today.” -Mary Shelley I started with the blank page, added gesso and then used spray inks (that I made) and acrylic paint markers to randomly apply color. As […]
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Beloved
I decided I wanted to make some artwork for our bedroom, we have a LARGE blank wall above our bed and I envisioned a large (36×48) middle piece with complimenting side pieces. I pre-planned color scheme and the idea that I wanted cherry blossoms and love birds. I then wanted to have side pieces that […]
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DLP Week 1: Goals
Last year I became aware of the “Documenting Life Project (DLP)” but was mainly a lurker….I did some of the prompts but didn’t really participate in the community. This year, I have joined and kept up with the two weeks of prompts thus far (yes, I’m aware that it is ONLY two weeks, but so […]
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More Reflective Art Activities
I have had the pleasure of facilitating a few additional reflective art activities in the last couple of weeks and have been blown away by the work of the participants. Both from an artistic and emotional perspective. It is awesome to see the way that art opens folks up to thoughts and feelings that are […]
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Paper Love Birds
I really enjoyed the musical love birds I put in to my cherry blossom painting last weekend, so I decided I wanted to do a series of paper/text-based love bird paintings ….I thought it would be fun to explore texture and various texts to make the love birds. I bought a pack of 12×12 canvases so […]
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Lots of Color Play
I have been playing around with a painting that I didn’t like initially, at all! Then it got wonky and then it got more wonky and then I liked it. I don’t have pictures of the original stages – the first picture is what I started with, then it took on a life of it’s […]
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