Photo Friday: Shoes
I was really looking forward to this week’s lesson for the Jane LaFazio sketching class. This week: shoes! I chose to sketch the Electric Purple Chucks that I bought myself as part of my 40th birthday presents. They’ve become my favorites. But, they are not as dirty as they look …
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UFOs: Great Creativity Challenges
Many years ago, I was the charity quilt coordinator for my guild. In that role, I was the recipient of many, many donated UFOs. What absolutely surprised me was how much I loved dealing with other people’s UFOs. I have rarely felt as creative as I did when staring at …
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Creative Play Date
Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s also Creative Play Date Day. I’m not feeling very creative today because I am still getting over the plague that my daughter brought home from school so I decided I would just play today. For me that means working on personal quilts rather than professional ones, …
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Photo Friday – Continuous Line Drawing
Continuing this week with my Sketching and Watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. This week – continuous line drawing. I’m getting a little better. 🙂
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Creative Play Newsletter (Vol. 1: Issue 8) – Creativity is Innate
I have been thinking about the nature of creativity for years, but nothing has helped me understand the topic more than having a child. My daughter created fearlessly from the moment she could first hold a crayon. But, judging from the stacks of papers other parents took home with them …
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Welcome Mat, 2017
The Muse seems to be stuck on political work lately. This new piece is no different. This piece is entitled “Welcome Mat” and it is roughly the size of one at 20″ x 30.” I used fusible, raw edge applique to add the Arabic letters, which say “Ahlan wa Sahlan,” …
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Photo Friday – Leaves
Here’s my project from Week 2 of the sketching and watercolor class with Jane LaFazio. Happily, they do actually look like leaves, but my watercolor painting still needs a little work. Still, stretching myself a bit with a new medium is great fun even if these paintings will never see …
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Groundhog Day Do Over
Do you remember the movie “Groundhog Day”? Bill Murray had to keep doing his day over again and that inspired me to write this post today. If I had a quilting do over, what would I do? It was easy to pick a quilt because I am currently doing it …
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Photo Friday – Fruit
My photography class has ended, but now I am taking Sketching & Watercolor – Journal Style with Jane LaFazio so for the next few weeks, I’ll have some of that work to post here. This week’s lesson was in drawing and painting fruit. What I did does actually look like fruit …
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Two Rows of Names
I’ve been working steadily this week on my “Victims” quilt (which may explain why I am in such a mood of melancholy). I now have two rows completed to share. When it’s done, the quilt will be about as long as it is wide now.
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