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The Valentine’s Day Gift Shop.
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Valentine’s Day Gift Shop
How to Be Intentionally Original When Creating Art
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You can be intentionally original when creating art. It takes a little work on your part, but the lessons learned and the wells of creativity you will find in the process are worth the time and effort. Copying Art One … Read More
My 2020 Year in Review
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We Survived! I have been thinking about my 2020 year in review. It’s that week between Christmas and New Year’s when we collectively reflect on the past year and look forward to the new. It’s been cold and rainy day … Read More
Creating Bookmarks, a Good Excuse to Laminate
How I Got Started It started out innocently. I started laminating when I taught art classes for kids. We made these really cool books that held their lessons. As they completed their lessons, they added them to their book. An … Read More
I Love All the Colors… Prismacolor in Particular.
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I love all the colors… and when creating mixed media art, Prismacolor pencils in particular, not only give me a wide array of colors to chose from, but also they can be used in my art to make it more … Read More
My Obsession with Poinsettias – Christmas Story One
How it all started My obsession with Poinsettias started as a child. Each Christmas season the altar at church was beautifully decorated with the brilliant red blossoms. They seemed exotic to me because they were so unlike any of the … Read More
Self-Care for the Holiday Season
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Self-care for the Holiday season is more important now than ever because of our increased levels of stress.
Can I Keep a Croton alive? My Plant Adoption Story
My Question Not that I really try to keep plants alive. I have always had an, if it lives it lives, and if it dies, that poor plant wasn’t meant to be kind of attitude. Surprisingly, I have been relatively … Read More
We have Changed the Way We Shop
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Strategies for Holiday Shopping 2020 Style I hope that what I have to I share with you will be helpful; how to navigate shopping this holiday season. My intention is to send a cheerful message. However, the top story in … Read More
The Return of the Prodigal Son
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The Value of Literature My Encounter with the Book A close friend of mine introduced me to this book at a critical point in my life, where I too was encountering a piece of artwork that would change the course … Read More
Connecting to Art – Art Story Three
Connecting to art as a child The National Museum in Washington DC is expansive, room after room meant for exhibitions, and when you are a 12- year’s old child, it is enormous. For me as a young girl from Ohio, … Read More
Knowing How to Overcome Creative Block
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Steps to Relieve Creative Block First, I admit that I am not on my game. I lower my expectations, and maybe I won’t tackle that 18 x 24 painting, or the detail inside the flower that I want to get … Read More
Art Project One: Colorful Autumn Leaves
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There is an autumn leaves watercolor project that I do every year. I teach it too. Art Project One: Colorful Autumn Leaves
An Artist Who Loves to Write Books
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Winnie Tataw – Guest Blogger Hello everyone, my name is Winnie Tataw. I am a two-time published author. And the third book of my fantasy series The Gods Scion will be out for sale this December. Now if you read … Read More
Are Digital Downloads for You? Things to Consider.
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A little History Clip art is an old school term. When I worked as a technical illustrator in the art department, there were large books of what we call clip art. This was before the era of desktop computers. If … Read More
Can I paint your photo?
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There’s a story behind one of my favorite questions, “Can I paint your photo?” It was an extremely bad day at work, one of those days with a lot of pressure and not enough time, when I got a text … Read More
An Artist’s Reflections on the Sermon on the Mount
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Listening to a Bible study on the Sermon on the Mount, I began to think about how I can take the very important things that Jesus taught on the hill and relate them to my art and business. I want … Read More
Digital Watercolor Quilts: My Art and Design Intersect
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Remember, I told you, I love to tell stories. Here is another story. It’s about how I came up with Digital Watercolor Quilts. My Christmas Card Tradition All of my Christmas cards are handmade. This tradition started the first year … Read More
For the Love of Hydrangea: One Beautiful Shrub.
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My grandmother was a gardener and she loved her flowers. She loved her garden so much that when we wrapped up our visits with her, we could not leave until we looked at her plants. She would take us to … Read More
Art Story Two: My Art is Pretentious.
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When I paint, I want to paint beautiful things. When I went to art school, beautiful art was characterized as decorative art and excluded from contemporary art. I don’t think that is true anymore. There are so many women artists … Read More
My First Launch: The Quilt Note Card Collection.
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Here we go. The day has arrived. This is my first product launch: The Quilt Note Card Collection. In my previous blogs I have talked about how The Quilt Note Card Collection came to be, my motivation for selling notecards, … Read More
Good Vibes Come by Handwritten Notecards
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What if there is a relatively inexpensive practice, which only takes a few minutes once you understand what you need to do and the purpose behind it, but whose reward is a sense of welling being not just for yourself, … Read More
Artist Interview One: Annette Kennedy, Fiber Artist.
Connecting with childhood friends can be interesting… yes, very interesting, especially when you are an artist and you discover that old friend of yours is too. Since 2003, Annette Kennedy has been creating pictorial art quilts that incorporate hand-dyed, painted, … Read More
The Quilt Notecards Kinda Just Happened.
Sarah likes to keep it simple. She has been making quilts for Project Linus, for several years. Her designs aren’t elaborate, but Sarah takes her time to think about her choice of fabric and the colors with which she can … Read More
Art Story One: I am Fascinated with Quilts, Here’s My Story.
Every journey has a beginning. My story of why I love quilts began the morning that I gathered enough courage to walk up a path to a little log cabin near the campsite where my companion and I were staying … Read More
Exploring Art in Isolation – One
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Watercolor Toilet Paper Art I started to write this a month ago and it was put to the side as I shifted gears and made face masks. Two of my sisters keep asking me where is it? So, here is … Read More
Art Question One: Dealing with the Background in Your Artwork.
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Jon asked me, “Background first, or not?” How I Teach I am not teaching art classes at the moment, but that doesn’t stop me from teaching art. I guess it just oozes out of me. I guess it is because … Read More
Art Talk One: Kim Collins, Fort Worth
I aspire to write about art, artists, and exhibitions, among other things. When I heard Kim Collins speak at North Haven Garden Center in Dallas Texas on Saturday June 8th I decided to begin. Her work was part of the … Read More
Art in a Garden (Center)
Everyone loves a garden, and for those of us who love to put our hands in the dirt, a garden center. Located on nine acres down a quiet suburban street in North Dallas, the North Haven Garden Center includes a … Read More
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I always wanted to design cards. I get to sometimes in my work as a graphic designer. It is my favorite part of my job. You have to start some time today is the day.
Exactly who is that woman?
Someone recently asked someone I know well, that question. This blog in no real way answers that. I just feel chatty tonight. This week the company I work for launched its new website, www.gomarquis.com. Well, maybe it was last week, it’s … Read More
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday I arrive early to church because I remember last time seats were filled before I got there. Still, this time I sit where I did last time, by a pillar on the end of a row towards the … Read More
Creativity is messy
I finished this painting this weekend. I started it several months ago. I probably paint once a week, some times more. This watercolor has been painted maybe twelve sessions. I really emphasize to my students to take your time and … Read More
Doggie Art
As much as people love their pets, I love to paint them. I waited until after Christmas to post these because I gave them as a gift. They are watercolors, with a lot of watercolor pencil added to achieve detail. … Read More
First Post
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I finally am finishing my new website. It is WordPress and will contain my portfolio, blog and art class information and sign up.
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