Chaos to Cosmos
…an adventure in abstract art. After much playing around recently, I am beginning to get a little more comfortable with abstract art. However, I find that it is of little use to try to make a plan, but rather can … Continued
Free Watercolor Printable to Celebrate National Watercolor Day!
Today is National Watercolor Day! While watercolor is not my primary medium, I do enjoy fooling around with it on my coloring pages, in my art journals, and in sketchbooks. I love the fluidity of it and even the … Continued
With Glittering Eyes
I love Roald Dahl’s notion of watching the world with “glittering eyes” for the hidden secrets. Sometimes I charge through my day without noticing the truly remarkable and even miraculous things happening all around me! Today I am going to … Continued
Seeing the Beautiful
I’m gonna be watching for the beautiful today!
Spring Flowers
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” Lady Bird Johnson Though it has felt like a return to winter here in central Kansas, I am trusting that spring weather is just around the corner. That is probably why I have … Continued
A House Without Books
I love books, and have a fairly extensive library of them even though it seems I never have time to read these days. But even just their company in the same room seems to impart some sense of knowledge and … Continued
The More That You Read…
I have always enjoyed all the places that I have visited through reading. As a kid I loved looking through my mother’s copy of Richard Haliburton’s “Book of Marvels” and traveling to those places in my imagination. And of course … Continued
If You Have a Garden and a Library…
Today’s quote is from my Book Lovers series. This one is by Cicero. I do own my share of books, but I tend to grow my flower gardens on canvas instead of in the earth, does that count?
MLK Art Journal Spread
I have always had an attraction to the power of words. Whether a novel or a newspaper, words have the power to change the world we live in. It follows then that I have long collected quotes. I have … Continued
