Summer Sun

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside." ~ Maud Hart Lovelace Summer days, spinning around, blooming. Here we are at the precipice of another celestial event, solstice: the one that happens in summer. That moment when the sun is in its zenith above...

Springing Up

What you need:: Magazines, and art supplies (read about them here). Candles, music, a bouquet or a posy of flowers, tea, and company, as well as any other additions you dream up to setting your space, to be with creative practice are optionally limitless! "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"...

Winter Waits

What you need:: Magazines, and art supplies (read about them here). Candles, music, tea, and company, as well as any other additions you dream up to setting your space, to be with creative practice are optionally limitless! “May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break...

Leafing through Autumn

What you need:: Curiousity, magazines, and art supplies (read about them here). Candles, music, tea, and company, as well as any other additions you dream up to setting your space, to be with creative practice are optionally limitless! Rustling leaves dancing with breezes gently landing in ones, twos, and threes. Clear night skies. Early evening...

Basic Materials

Supplies to begin an art practice are paper, coloring implements, a notebook, gesso, glue and old credit cards, pen, pencils, and scissors. Paper Depending on how limited or limitless your time and resources are, paper can be as simple as a Canson 9 x 12 heavyweight watercolor paper pad, which holds multiple applications of paint,...

Repurposing:: cookbook into paintbook

Making an art journal with a very old, much loved and used cookbook starts with one cookbook that has well-stitched pages and a tub of glue::I use mod podge and glue three pages together, then three more, then another three and leave them open to dry before moving on to the next lot. Before gluing,...

Heart Journaling

Art journaling at it’s most basic is keeping a creative journal where you play at being an archaeologist and a visual storyteller . . . without rules involving ‘art’: it’s not doing art in a journal but an exploration; experimentally and spontaneously making discoveries while thoughts, feelings, and fingers roam in union, truly deeply freely...