Wabi Sabi Alchemy: Four Weeks of Hands On, See How I do it, Video Classes Art and Spirit have always traveled hand in hand for me. Wabi is your inner spirit and feelings, while Sabi is the material world around you. Wabi Sabi is an approach to life. I’ve combined those concepts with art lessons…… Continue Reading
Sometimes a painting calls to you later. This painting was done in early 2015. It was fine for the experience I was seeking at the time: to create a likeness with a bit of an abstract background. But today, I felt it needed more. Sometimes, paintings, like life, need to be reworked a bit. I…… Continue Reading
What’s NEW for You? Every day, seek out the NEW for YOU experience. Focus your consciousness on that bright, far out, thing you can try, risk, explore, and you draw new energies to you like a magnet. It changes everything! Let this become your Daily Mantra. This is why I don’t like ‘bucket lists’. They…… Continue Reading
Allow your Passion to be your Guiding Force throughout the day! Each day, I make time for Play. Creative Play. Daydreaming time touched by some insight that seems to float into my awareness. When I listen to what I’m inspired to do, it’s touched with passion, originality, and the inner creative force. If I sat…… Continue Reading
Freedom to me was escaping from an 8-4:00 ‘job’. I loved teaching high school, but I was locked into an established schedule. Be there, parked, mailbox checked, classroom doors opened by 7:45 for that first 8:00 class. Five classes of 28 students each every day, a 45 min lunch break, a homeroom, possibly study hall…… Continue Reading
In art, the best results often happen with least materials. Just using red, yellow, and white, with the right technique, can lead to amazing, satisfying results. It’s an interesting way art works. Once we learn the ‘secret’ technique to doing it, it becomes so easy, fast, and fun. Layers of color build up just as…… Continue Reading
It’s so interesting to me how this process works! I let thinking get the better of me yesterday. Working with oil pastels on a new Wabi Sabi project for the soon to be offered online classes, had me including way too much info, working on far too large of a format, and developing just plain…… Continue Reading
Or we try to, at least! With every project planned and presented, so many little things can go wrong. You do your best to anticipate the mistakes, to foreshadow the accidents, to provide just the right amount of what to do and what to avoid! So I make several examples for each project, then of…… Continue Reading
Art with a Purpose is the WHY of Doing It. I’ve never been one to just smear paint on a surface, or sprinkle glitter on a crown, just for the #&%# of it. Why do it, I ask??? I don’t get it. Years ago back in Chicago, 3 women created yet another approach to learning…… Continue Reading
Wabi-Sabi has intrigued me for decades! I made this bowl in the ’70’s, when I first heard of Wabi-Sabi. Very little was written about it at the time, since it’s essence was considered a mystery, an enigma, something only understood by the Oriental mind. It was a way of life, a belief system, a way…… Continue Reading