These fish were a part of my Thanksgiving weekend painting marathon. The drawing technique that I used that weekend was one that I had not used since Middle School. The idea is to draw your object without lifting your pen. These fish were my favorite …
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I spent quite a bit of time drawing and painting. I haven’t done much of either lately and it felt so good to do. Drawing is so much like play for me, and painting feels like meditation and rest. Here’s one …
I have a bad habit of buying fat quarters just about any time I enter a fabric store. So I’ve collected quite a few of these babies without any explicit plans to make something. I found this pattern for stuffed birds the other day and was …
Check out the Slideshow of Angry Birdy-ness from last night’s Trunk or Treat.
He’s sort of silly. But he was one of my creative projects this weekend, and I think that he’s so cute, so I wanted to share him with you all. Please allow me to introduce Pancake Date, or PD for short. My sister and I …
Food, is one of my favorite ways to be creative. Especially when I have a chance to feed people. Cooking for myself is ok, but having people over to sit at the table, to catch up on life, to eat and to laugh is one …
One of the most helpful tools for developing my creativity, processing my thoughts and talking to God is to journal.
I can sit down with a feeling that I don’t even know how to name, sit down for awhile with a journal, and after a half hour:
I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist’s Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day.
This idea has been on quite a few blogs lately. like this one, and this one, and this one. But I didn’t have canvas, and I didn’t want my melted crayon art to look just like every body else’s. We’ve been listening to a lot …
