Recently I started taking a watercolor painting class through community education. I was so excited to take my first painting class. “Yay!” my inner kid was exclaiming. What joy I felt picking up the brush and playing with color at home before the class started. Then I went to the Read more…
After much hesitation and vacillation, I signed up to take a watercolor painting class this fall. I bought all the suggested supplies for the class and they have been sitting in a shoebox in my office for over 2 weeks, untouched and unopened. Worried that I would not know enough Read more…
My play today was this artist manifesto that describes my beliefs and intentions regarding the art I create… “There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday I did my first weaving using a loom. It was a type of weaving called Saori, free-style weaving for anyone. A friend of mine organized the class with a weaver who teaches in her home in Chaska, MN. What fun! Weaving Magic… The idea of Saori weaving was inspired Read more…
Quote of the day: “Being creative is about creating. It’s about doing. And so too is living, because life is an act of creation. Day by day, whatever else we make, our first act of creation is our own lives. We must first make the artist before we make the Read more…