I am consistently interested in fitness and diet. It isn’t because I want to be skinny, it’s because I want to feel good in my clothes and in my body. I’ve been a range of weights from...
Hi there! It’s been a heck of a week and I’m happy to be back writing this morning! Tonight we are celebrating both my honey’s birthday and my own and since my parents love our cooking, we...
I missed my deadline, again! Kicker is that I completed my Marlene Dumas inspired work last weekend and never wrote about it. Bad blogger. Marlene Dumas So this weeks inspiration from Love Art, Happy Life...
This weeks prompt for Journal 52 reflects on sunshine and rain. I found this amusing when I read it as this morning I had done something very out of character for me: I gardened in the rain. Who does that...
Every year, like clockwork, I end up battling beetles. They are the literal scourge of my weeping pussy willow and cherry trees as well as my beautiful roses. I tend to blame the former occupants of our home...
The second canvas I used to practice my abstract art was awful. I didn’t like it at all. The colors were blah and I was not pleased. So, after seeing several YouTube artists ‘just paint over...
The weather this year has thus far been unpredictable and varied. Our late Winter and early Spring has consisted of a mix of 70F days and 20F days, often within 24 hours of each other. It hasn’t done...
This week didn’t see a lot of progress on the deepening of my knowledge of photography, but it did see some increased breadth. What I really learned was that art feeds art: photography feeds sketching...