New Year's Eve...I love Eve's. They feel like that timeless space of hovering right before warp speed takes over. The eve of something begs for preparation, anticipation, reflection... a mindfulness about the next day and all that it will usher in. Christmas Eve feels like that, and so does New Year's Eve. The living room … Continue reading Roadside Word Picking
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The Anti-Inspiration that Works!
I have found some of the most unusual inspirations along the creative path as an artist. I may be the only one who finds freedom and renewed passion in these quirky anti-inspirations, but I'll share this latest one with you, just in case it helps you too! Here's how it goes... My passion for drawing … Continue reading The Anti-Inspiration that Works!
InkTober UnderWay
#InkTober is proving to be such fun for me! I saw that it was coming up a few days before October began from Liz Steele's Instagram feed. I thought it would be a great opportunity to just play with ink of all kinds...pens, washes, even a splash of color if I wanted to. I got … Continue reading InkTober UnderWay
FINALLY!!
SKETCHBOOK CHAT #4! Drawings from a two-day sketch crawl in Boone, NC with my parents! Tips and techniques for you to try as well! Enjoy! Artfully Yours, Jennifer
My Trellis
There's been lots of livin' and therefore lots of drawin'!! Somehow I thought life would slow down after the wedding, but since it hasn't, filled to the brim with all good things, I've taken to drawing to slow down the moments a bit, to lean into all the goodness jam-packed into my days and weeks. … Continue reading My Trellis
Homebase
Anytime I allow my fascination to carry me into mediums I haven't used in a while, I always find myself returning to a black pen. Every day I reach for the Moleskine, or the Handbook Journal, to log yards of lines in either a Sharpie fine-line pen or a Bic Pen or a thicker brush … Continue reading Homebase
Fascination & Play
I am fascinated by many things. Nature, faces, shapes of objects, fibers, color, line, stitches, light...on and on to where I'm fairly dizzy with delight. This fascination is surely the heart of an artist's life. Being an artist has less to do with raw talent and more with being fascinated by something and granting oneself … Continue reading Fascination & Play
Drawing to See
I was railing at no one and everything, howling at the just-up sun, grappling with the ongoing sense that my life is out of control (even though it isn't). I know this song and dance. I've heard it many times before. I've railed so many times in my life now that it sounds like an … Continue reading Drawing to See
All My Attention
Every drawing tells a story. It doesn't matter whether it is abstract or representational, detailed or dashed off, unfinished or complete...it speaks of life in that moment, what was going on either in the artist's physical world or in their feelings and thoughts. More often than not, it encompasses both. I often feel like Irene, … Continue reading All My Attention
Sketchbook Chat #3
I'm getting a bit better! This one is under 15 minutes! Woo! Hoo! In this Sketchbook Chat I share a demonstration of adding watercolor to a drawing of a privacy fence. What I aim for in these videos is not to teach you exactly how to hold the brush or apply the paint, but ways … Continue reading Sketchbook Chat #3