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Flower Delivery

I’ve been looking forward to the new spring season of flower deliveries from a local flower farm, Boone Fox Farm. The first bouquet of delicate peach and purple flowers arrived this week just in time […]

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Design Ideas

Sometimes when I want to start a blank journal page, I refer to my library of art books. Most have exercises to teach art concepts and inspire creative thinking. This week I didn’t have an […]

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Facing the Blank Page

If you are thinking of starting a visual journal, you may find that it’s hard to know where to start. You may feel that a blank page is intimidating. You may worry that you are […]

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How to Feel More Creative

In recent discussions about art practice, I’ve heard several friends say some version of “I want to feel more creative”, “I wish I were more creative”, “I’m not as creative as [other person].” “Creativity can’t […]

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Word and Image

  How do you feel about drawing? As a visual artist, I often start a journal page with a drawing and add words. That seems natural to me. But sometimes people say “I don’t know […]

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Almost Finished

This week I’ve added more layers of paint to my coneflower painting.  I darkened the stone wall and added a pink sky. I covered some of the white spots in the background that were distracting […]

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Working in Layers

This week I’m adding layers of collage and paint to my large piece. My actions are mostly intuitive in this part of the process while staying with my basic design and color scheme.    

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More Folded Paper Masks

After folding paper to form 6-pointed snowflakes as masks for gelli printing, my mind was spinning with other ways to fold and cut paper. I folded the paper in accordion folds to make horizontal repeating […]

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Freezer Paper for the Win

This week I continued working on the June module of A Year of Gelatin Printing. It focuses on manipulating paper as a printing tool. We were making masks from folded and cut paper. One example […]

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Torn Paper Printing

The June module of A Year of Gelatin Printing focuses on manipulating paper as a printing tool. Torn paper is used as a mask to create shapes with undulating edges. For these prints, I used […]

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