
The information in this book shouldn’t be so hard to find. There is a class at the church creative arts camp I attend each fall where they make their own journals, and they are lovely indeed.
I’ve let this blog post gestate a while before writing it today. I waited to find my peace about this first, but still it seems to me there are issues here that bear discussing. Several factors have converged to make me feel this way. First, I painfully listened to an award winning representational artist teach … Read more

The information in this book shouldn’t be so hard to find. There is a class at the church creative arts camp I attend each fall where they make their own journals, and they are lovely indeed.
Still doodling in church to hold my concentration, it also becomes a nice record of what I’ve been thinking about and working with. I hope you enjoy these too…

This page represents April 16, 2010 to April 27, 2010.
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Enjoy!
God wrenched me out of bed early this morning to paint this abstract of a person playing. The painting is 24” x 30”.

I’m especially pleased with the carved one, which I painted with under-glaze when wet, carved, and then after it was fired, coated with a clear glaze before it was fired again.

This page represents April 4, 2010 to April 15, 2010.
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Enjoy!
I was pleased that my two paintings got great placement at this show at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. You can see my above two paintings closer up by clicking here and by clicking here on this blog. As the first photo shows below, these paintings of mine are placed in the cameo spot where … Read more
This is the new large painting I finished today. It is done in acrylic on a 28 x 36 inch stretched canvas. Enjoy!
I did an exercise of a watercolor pear on four different papers. The pear and the palette were the same in all four, but the papers were very different. I learned that papers make a big difference!

This page represents March 23, 2010 to April 3, 2010.
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We had a good time dying Easter eggs and frosting egg-shaped sugar cookies today. It was balmy and lovely outside. We worked part of the time outdoors at the picnic table.
Here are my first results playing with Yupo, a polypropylene synthetic tree-free paper (see here). On the one hand it has some great possibilities for vibrant color, which are thrilling, but I am concerned about the archival durability of it as there is no “tooth” for the paint to cling to. 10492

I’m not a huge fan of either of these new paintings of mine, but they both represent first efforts with techniques or materials that are new to me, and therefore are forebears of work to come.
This page represents March 11, 2010 to March 22, 2010. See close-ups of recent entries below. Enjoy!

From time to time I’ve shared my doodles here which I mostly do in church, as they help me concentrate. A couple of these were done while in waiting mode somewhere…
As I said I would on the blog here, I pursued the above Andy Goldsworthy books, and really enjoyed reading them. They were inspiring, thought provoking and wonderful. My least favorite was the snowball book, and my most favorite is the one on the bottom, as it is the best overview of this man’s awesome … Read more