My class – Totems at The Creative Nomad Retreat February 3, 2016

Spread 211 – Totem

21 Jan – 1 Feb, 2016

Vintage and personal images, ink, nova color paint, matte medium.

A group photo on the patio of our wonderful space at The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, California

My class in action!

Last January 21-24 I taught along with Roxanne Coble at Tracie Hanson’s Creative Nomad Retreat. My class was “Totems”. What a wonderful group of creative souls joined us!

Tracie created a wonderful, amazing retreat and we were totally spoiled! Thank you Tracie!

2015 in review December 30, 2015

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for my blog. Enjoy the year that was!

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 21,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Orly Avineri’s The Journaling Game! December 13, 2015

Orly Avineri‘s The Journaling Game!

I am pleased to help my dear friend Orly Avineri introduce The Journaling Game. A set of 48 cards, 3.5 inches X 3.5. inches in size.

The box reads “Sparks of inspiration for individuals who work solo or in a group setting with materials mostly found at home, in nature, and on the street.”

The game would be excellent for art get togethers or for artists working alone looking for prompts.

The journaling game came about from when Orly was at a mountain retreat and friends were having a hard time knowing how to start an evening of art journaling. Orly came up with the idea of each person taking turns giving a simple prompt. Orly introduced me to the game later at another event. We had so much fun. I have introduced many friends to the game, Terry Garrett, John Arbuckle, Jacki Long, Irene Rafael, Thomas LaBadia. Some of my most treasured meaningful afternoons have been spent playing the journaling game with these dear friends. The spreads we created together have so much deep meaning for me. Thinking of those times still bring tears to my eyes thinking of them now. I will include them below.

Head over to Orly’s blog and leave a comment on her blog for a chance to win a set of cards! They are soooo fun!

Created in Minnesota at Terry Garrett’s home with John Arbuckle and Thomas LaBadia.

Created on a treasure afternoon at my home with Terry, John and I.

Spread 207 – “Lay It All On Me” November 23, 2015

Spread 207 – “Lay It All On Me”

October 11- November 23, 2015

Vintage and personal photos, matte medium, black gelly roll pen, Nova color paint, black gesso.

For the last few months I have been in a funk. A not happy with my art, not making art funk. A not happy with myself funk. Then today I woke up and I realized, enough.

This spread was started in one of Orly Avineri’s classes, it has evolved and is finished today.