Felted Lightning Bag
You have to knit a felted bag much larger than you want it, as you can see in the first photo below, in order to shrink it tight and strong to the size you desire.
Year: 2016
Book Review: The Forest Lover
This book is historical fiction of Emily Carr, a remarkable woman painter, who despite her confining Victorian upbringing traveled to Paris to study with Post Impressionists and returned to her cherished northwest Canada to paint the forests and native artifacts
Spring at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
I had a glorious time a the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, which was bursting in bloom with cherry blossoms, wisteria, azaleas, lilacs, peonies, and tulips, all somehow magnificent simultaneously.
NYC Five Boro Bike Tour
I completed it without walking my bike once– even up the steep climbs on the bridges– so although I was very chilled and wet, I was feeling pretty good about it!
Two Early Spring Plein Air Oil Paintings
I’ve been painting outside a couple times here this spring before the weather turned cold and rainy.
Bits and Clips for April 2016
I hope you find something here thought provoking, meaningful, inspiring, or helpful in these links.
Color Studies in My Artist Journal
I love an artist journal as a place to try out ideas before doing them on larger canvasses. Here are a couple of recent color studies in my art journal that intrigued me.
Book Review: Little Paris Bookshop
The main character is a “literary apothecary, or a “book epicure” that can discern which book is exactly the one each person should read to improve, heal, or grow in the way that they need to.
Who Are You?
This quote is longer than most I share, but I think it is really worth reading because gaining objectivity over your thoughts and emotions is the first step toward mastery, freedom and healing
Recent Black and White Photographs
I hope you are as enchanted by the variety, light, form, beauty, texture, contrast, and composition represented in these photographs as much as I was firsthand.
Earth Day Quote with Flowers
I know that there is something much stronger, much more unfathomable, than us, the humans. So do not despair.
New Painting in Pastel: Catkin Bursting in Spring
This new abstract pastel of mine is 16″ x 20″ and it celebrates spring.