It is with my sincerest apologies that I have not moved forward on this initiative before now. We are back on track and the derivative art has been created: You should be able to click on the art to enlarge it and see the details. On the last two pieces of art, I have placed the words "Art Hearts for Haiti"....I am open...
I am thrilled to tell you that Chance of Rain won an Honorable Mention in the Open Aqueous Show hosted by the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society at the Punta Gorda Visual Arts Center! Chris and I went down to attend the reception last evening, and as always, came away from the show impressed with the caliber of the work, the artists and the...
I tried to post a new short "film" of Simon's cat but it's way too big for the blog and it would not let me resize it. So do yourself a favor, especially if you have cats or are in need of a laugh, and visit this site and watch all the little shorts - they are hysterical!! This individual has obviously been...
The lovely Pam Johnson Brickell of South Carolina Low Country blog has awarded me the Sunshine Award for creativity and postivity!! Yay! (She must not have been looking on those days I was whining!!) The Sunshine Award - how perfect is that for Florida!!! Thank you, Pam, I greatly appreciate it! I am to pass this award on to other blogs that I think...
Those darn weekends! Blink and they're gone!! This one flew by! I did a presentation at the Bloomingdale Library on Saturday on Artful Journaling and ways to add art to your journal. We did a really fun (and easy) project that I thought I'd share here.... Skim through your photographs and find one you like. If you have the capabilities on your computer,...
Continued from Dealing with a Critic.... Criticism: Who Needs It?!! Critics. We all have them. Both internal and external. We usually have a love/hate relationship with a heavy emphasis on the hate. Because we identify strongly with our work, with the struggles of bringing it into this world, let alone finding the courage to share the work, we tend to take criticism to our very hearts....
There's one! A red phone booth! I've always wanted to see one–in England!!* And here I am!* I was riding on the top of a double-decker bus (which I'm going to sketch next) and there was a delay. So I started sketching.....and then we started to move and I wasn't finished [with the sketch], so as we traveled around I would draw from...
Did you see it?!! Did you see the Critic in here? Can you believe the audacity??!! To just show up on my blog like that!! Of course, the Critic was invited. I even held the door open.... In yesterday's post, I made the statement, "....I can't help but wonder if the time may have been better spent on a brand new attempt!" That,...
Sitting at dinner last night, my husband casually asked me if I had stopped posting to the blog as he had noticed no new posts lately. Oops! Ummmm, no not really, I mumbled. I decided to check in (thinking it really had not been that long ago that I had posted) only to learn it had been over a week since my last...
