Four Simple Collages of Flowers (Keeping an Art Practice Warm)
Make something uncomplicated, keeping your art practice warm on the back burner, while considering your next, larger, creative moves.
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I’m Teaching Painted Paper Collage for a Week in Maine in August
Every year on this blog (minus the pandemic) you’ve come with me to Creative Arts Camp at Newfound/Owatona, on the shores of Long Lake, in Maine, at the end of August. It is a national church camp program for adults, a destination event for creative Christian Scientists. If that is you, I want you to … Read more
Random Compositions in Ink (Grid Journaling Idea #4)
Use these little compositions to make yourself explain why a composition works, and why it doesn’t.
Sam Boughton (Featured Artist)
Sam Boughton is an abstract landscape painter whose spare work I admire. Her efficient, decisive mark making is luscious, and how she beautifully simplifies the landscape is wonderful.
Two New Red Paintings in Pastel
People think pastels need to look chalky or light, and this is not the case!
Playing with Red (Sketchbook Ideas #13)
I’ve found that it’s hard to get a red red that reads only red!
Exploring Circles (Sketchbook Ideas #12)
The purpose of a sketchbook is to use it. Fill it up with trials! Give some circles a go!
Intuition or Spiritual Sense? (Deep Think #24)
Cultivating spiritual sense is thrilling, and I wish more people would experience this exciting connection, instead explaining it away materially, or hiding it behind the term of intuition.
Layered Scribbles by Others
Approach scribbling with mindful noticing and inquisitiveness, and let one thing lead to the next by asking questions.
Layering Scribbles (Sketchbook Ideas #11)
It is highly useful to practice scribbling and to know the idiosyncrasies of layering scribbles in different media.
Global Warming 2023 (New Abstract Painting in Pastel)
This year, more concern is felt because climate change has been resulting in devastating fires and seasons of pervasively poor air quality; it is starting to effect us where we live
Snorkeling in Guadaloupe (New Large Pastel Painting)
Have you snorkeled and studied what was deep below you in the water? It is fascinating, with the undulating plants, the shafts of light, the deep shadows and the darting schools of bright fish.