Ready? Set? Here we go, bravely heading into 2012! You’ve been on my mind since last week. Many thoughtful, appreciative comments came in on The Realm of You. What an intelligent and capable group of people you are. Here’s part two: How to Gloriously Rule your Realm in 2012. Yes, this year will be turbulent….
Category Archives: creative process
Art-making, Wine-making and Your Life Now.
“We live on the leash of our senses” Diane Ackerman wrote, then added “There is no way to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.” Ready to become the artist of your own life? Deliberately re-engage with your senses, one by one. Consider: Everything you know and believe, all…
August update
Hello you! You’ve been much on my mind. August has been non-stop and the long post I want to write you is still several days away. But the turbulence everywhere, mixed with positive change appearing in with the breakdown of so much, triggered my short note to you. Amidst work for my local show, a…
Santa Fe Standards Necklace
Santa Fe Standards is a polymer necklace reflecting my experience in northern New Mexico. The finished necklace costs $720 and exhibited in August 2011 at my Souvenirs Show in Santa Fe. Santa Fe combines layers of culture and belief as varied and obdurate as the rocks that shape this area. Color, pageantry, enigmatic emblems, deep beliefs,…
Tahitian Flora Sketches and Polymer Mokume Gane
Update – Studio work for my Aug. 1 show: My theme is souvenirs of places I have visited, in real life or in my imagination. Today: Papeete, capital of Tahiti: Floral fecundity. In a grand and intriguing gift from the Universe (thanks!) I went to Tahiti several years ago with a small group of wonderful…
Excursions, Explorations
Ever noticed how when you start something really new, you like having company around? I want to share a creative project with you that I just started and that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. The process will be a grand adventure. We’ll travel across creative action, polymer clay, aesthetic choices, jewelry construction,…
Focus and Mayhem in my Studio
A couple of weeks ago, I vacated my studio for a month so that an out-of-town artist friend of mine could work while visiting. Ian Ingram is an astonishing artist. His current work is a series of 12 hyperrealist charcoal and pastel drawings, 7 feet high, yes feet. Magical and disruptive, and very beautiful. We…
Psst: My Studio has 8 Helpful Tips for You
Working in my studio for 27 years, through hard and easy times, has taught me a great deal about persevering through turbulence. The personality of my studio has emerged and developed over the years. A blend of Annie Dillard and Terry Pratchett, it likes the name Sam. Sam is a specific aspect of my nature:…
Cutting through Creative Confusion
Artist and creative coach emphasizes your creative response to these changing times needs to support your personal goals and benefit you first.