I wonder who you are?! \’I am an artist.\’ \’I\’m a dentist.\’ \’I\’m a grad student.\’ \’I\’m a raging lunatic.\’ Standard answers that indicate our affiliations: (\’I\’m a Spartans fan\’, I\’m a Christian, I\’m a Democrat ) our jobs (\’I\’m a mother\’, \’I\’m a dentist\’) or other identities we hold dear. So dear they\’ve become us; define …
David Bohm on art
As a kid/young adult, one of my favorite radio programs was New Dimensions Radio – with Michael and Justine Toms. Michael interviewed physicist David Bohm and I feel the resonances of that talk rippling across the years of my life. The New Dimensions site is temporarily down today, but it\’s well worth checking out their archives and …
good books
One of my favorite books. If I get stuck, it becomes the voice of my muse- a quick way to connect myself back to that inner place where things are not always as they seem. p.231 – He’s been talking of women, in their traditional/ancient roles of courtesan (proficient in arts, literature and talk) housewife …
You belong.
Some days it just good to know that you\’re alive. That you have a pulse and that you\’re breathing. That\’s all we really have anyway. Our connection to Life- through our breath- is the most sacred, the most Holy spot on earth. Our breath is in fact, the center of our personal little universe. It\’s …
Eraser Magic
As if by magic, but actually by eraser, her hand is gone. It was awkwardly coming up from the lower left hand corner, and was weirdly small. This is another thing I love about this technique: eraserability (no, not actually a word says my spellcheck. really? It\’s perfect.) The ability to be erased. Nice. Anyway, …
Verithin pencils
I\’ve added more colored pencil- prismacolor verithins. This helps me block out the darks and make sure the all over color is going to be balanced. I used copic marker (E00 + E21) for her neck- checking how the color of the pencil shading will show through. What\’s great about this technique is that the pencil can …
practice practice practice.
I have had someone ask me to draw Merlin. So I am practicing. And this is how I practice. Grab a magazine cover and the markers. I chose this cover initially, because I loved this man\’s intense stare, thinking that to my mind, a Merlin may in fact have a similar countenance. This is only the …
women
why are we all trying to be men?!! Why do we feel that this is a good idea? I adore Joseph Campbell and love the Hero\’s Journey; like I loved the latest Star Wars. But as I explored in my work \’Banished\’ – I\’m just wondering who, exactly, is home to welcome the Hero as …
process…
beginnings of another picture. experimenting with colored pencil -(prismacolor verithin)I\’m really wondering how this is going to turn out- i usually make a black india ink outline and shade after, with markers first followed with pencil(normal prismacolors) after. My thoughts so far are centering around the feminine principle- how it is always young, vibrant; Life …
Banished
Roberto (my darling husband) posted my finished picture \’Banished\’ -on FB last night. Which has prompted me to write about it a bit sooner than I had intended. I usually take time to sit with my work after it’s done. In a way, I meet my picture for the first time in this way. Before, …