Though life has been on a crazy busy tilt for some time now, I'm finding I have more drawings than I can keep up with on this blog.  A wonderful problem to have.  So we will take a break from our Field Walk and have a little Piano Therapy today, which I describe here. This … Continue reading More Piano Therapy

On my walk, this drizzly, murky day, I peered into the gray...there really are colors there! What colors? Just grayed-down versions of blue, green, and purple? No, there are also hints of gold and red too! I saw in the hedgerow a shock of autumn colors...are they not lovely BECAUSE OF the gray surrounding them? … Continue reading On a Gray Day

There are times when I take a step back from my drawings, and try to look at them with fresh eyes.  I wonder, what am I drawn to in these drawings? I seem to be drawing lots and lots of tangly lines these days. The more lines the better.  The more they intersect and criss-cross, … Continue reading On My Stoop

The present state of my youngest's room is, shall we say...a DISASTER! I don't know how she can find anything! It is truly a picture out of one of my favorite children's books from when I was a girl...titled The Big Tidy-Up.  Click here for a previous post about this book!

A few things I love: The outdoors, line, the color green (especially lime)!

Sitting down at the end of a day... needing line to make sense of it all... drawing what's closest at hand, and foot.

Remember this? The furniture that my mom & dad-in-law gave us last Christmas? The crazy "use up all your leftover yarn Granny Square Blanket"? Free Pattern here! And the green bowl my husband gave me which has shown up in many-a-drawing?

She sits comfortably on the couch, doing her homework, researching on the ipad...and I'm thinking. Thinking that next year at this time, she won't be sitting on our couch. But on some couch or dorm chair doing her homework...at college. <Snif> <Snif> I'm drinking it all in now... enjoying every minute I have with her … Continue reading Senior Moment

While the youngest has her piano lesson at Mrs. Randi's, I get to sit out in her outdoor room and draw, or knit, or just sit. Another  mom of a piano student called it "Piano Therapy" for the moms. I totally agree!

It has long weighed on my mind that I, as an artist, have a pretty heavy footprint in this world.  What I mean by that, is all the STUFF I carry around with me (and will leave behind when I'm gone) on this planet which enables me to draw, paint, collage, knit, crochet and sew.  … Continue reading An Artist’s Footprint