creativity
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.
Books of Sketchbook Examples (Sketchbook Ideas #10)
These are not how-to books, but rather inside cameos of what other artists have done in their sketchbooks and artist journals.
Two New Small Collages
Lately I’ve been experimenting printing collage papers, and these two small acrylic collages utilize some of them.
Small Art Kit I’m Taking Abroad
Packing light for a trip to Europe, these are the art materials I’m taking.
Examples of Interesting Drawings (Sketchbook Ideas #9)
Drawings I like flaunt an abbreviated short hand that is an approximation of the artist’s experience or view, hopefully with a little creativity thrown in.
Exchanging Things into Thoughts (New Large Conceptual Painting in Pastel)
This painting is inspired by a favorite quote.
Recent Artist Journal Pages
My artist journals are where I try out either new ideas, like new compositional ideas, new color combinations, new materials, new ways to mix media, new mark making combinations, new layering methods, new concepts…
Two New Large Abstract Paintings in Black and White
It was time to ponder in monochromatic layering.
Recent Pages in my Artist Journal (watercolor and ink)
It is so therapeutic and refreshing to spend some time with color when the results do not matter.
Abstract Face Play (Experiments Part 1)
Let’s try something new: include people in our abstract paintings without being literal or realistic, or putting the eyes in the wrong place.