To ring in the new year, I opened up my studio and began work on a new tesserae piece. I had an older work I could not paint over, as it had oil pastel on the surface and would not allow oil paint to dry or adhere to the canvas. So, I volunteered it for…
To ring in the new year, I opened up my studio and began work on a new tesserae piece. I had an older work I could not paint over, as it had oil pastel on the surface and would not allow oil paint to dry or adhere to the canvas. So, I volunteered it…
It is a week until Christmas here in picturesque New England. And it is raining … coming down buckets of cats and dogs. At the same time Old Man Winter is blasting the sodden landscape with fierce winds and erasing the little bit of snow cover we have had for a while. It really is…
Metacognition – Thinking about thinking. I came across the word one day and apparently had way too much time on my hands … or more likely I had a boring to-do list for the day … because once I stopped to think about thinking, I found I had wasted the entire afternoon. In looking up…
Just got an email message through my fine art website, from The Star Seed Council, “Trying urgently to get in touch” with someone called Thelma. As I have never met any Thelma, I was somewhat confused about their reason for contacting me. According to their best sources, I am her last known contact and she…
Blind contour drawing is the practice of putting a drawing utensil to a piece of paper, covering one’s hand with another piece of paper so the hand is no longer visible, and then drawing an object using a single continual line. The method works to illustrate what is important to the eye. It works because…
My apologies for not keeping in touch with you all. A picture being worth a thousand words, I wanted to let you know I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed … hence the drawing, which is quite an accurate description of my current mental state. However, it turns out I couldn’t find myself listed in…
Okay, enough with the cold and wind and rain and sleet and never-ending winter weather. The ap on my phone lies to me every day, and those cheerful weather reporters have become really irritating. Here in New England, our temperature readings may be normal for this time of year, but the wind never lets up.…
Last summer in response to my ramblings about “Diddly Squat” friend Mary challenged me to riff on … my apology has no kickstand. So here you have the logical & totally nonsensical outcome of how I spent the last six or seven months thinking of other things. My apology has no kickstand … Does this…
For those of you who were in touch this fall, I wish to apologize for my tedious kvetching about the new kitchen and office project being installed. I found it difficult living with all the discombobulation and upheaval, the lack of any normal pattern to my days, the constant presence of others in my home,…