mixed media
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Front yard Art Sale day one
Today was our first day of our second annual art and lemonade sale during the citywide garage sale. We painted a colorful abstract painting together, as well as ourselves a bit too, to use as our sign. Leif really enjoyed… Continue reading
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Unfocused
Today I spent working on tasks around the house which occupied my body, but left my mind free to wander. Sometimes this is a creatively productive exercise, but today it was chaos. I would get an idea for a poem,… Continue reading
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Painting from a memory
Sometimes I like to paint from a photo without looking at the actual picture, but rather my memory of the experience. Today’s painting is one of these exercises. As the majority of my family is up north right now I… Continue reading
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Daydreaming on alternate realities
I may have mentioned before that I’ve been working on an idea for a tv series where there is travel to different parallel worlds. I was imagining what the computer screens might look like in a time where there was… Continue reading
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No Straight Lines
My husband was teasing me about my recent artwork having a lot of straight lines, geometric shapes and sharp angles, so I decided to make something without any of those at all. As I started off making the first squiggly… Continue reading
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Under a Red Sun
Today I had a question about the type of ink I used in my last painting and it got me thinking whether a ol’ ball point pen would work under watercolor. I happened to have my red editing pen handy… Continue reading
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Time-Space
Today I had an idea for a watercolor with geometric shapes. I started by drawing in ink some lines and circles. Then I started putting down the color where it felt right. Sometimes I followed the lines I had drawn,… Continue reading
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After the storm
Today was supposed to be our art club’s Paint-out at George George Park, but the weather didn’t cooperate. The rain really was coming down, about 2 inches in just a couple hours. Our street was flooded much of the afternoon… Continue reading
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Zooming to Greektown
This morning during our zoom session I decided that I wanted to paint some buildings. I was drawn to this picture I took in Greektown, while catching dinner before seeing a show with my friend. I used some making fluid… Continue reading
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Day 186 – July 4
Today my asthma is really kicking my butt. I can’t go more than a minute or two between wheezy coughs. I was holding off on using my inhaler until my art for today was done. The relief it give comes… Continue reading
366 Days of Art 