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• Final Step in Commissioned Painting

  

  In this final painting session, I spent a lot of time staring at the canvas, deciding what it needed in order to call it finished and send it off to my client. Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Things I Wouldn't Put On My Resume

  I wouldn’t mention the one-week job I had as a legal secretary in the 1960s.  The one where my boss asked me to pick up a birthday card for his sister... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Getting the Color and Mood Right in Commissioned Painting

  

  I liked the way the composition in this new commissioned painting was coming along, but the color and mood were not right yet. It was too bright with too many... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Learning How To Listen

  I know you need to make eye contact and to signal the speaker that you are listening by making a comment or asking a question periodically. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Adding Detail to Commissioned Abstract Painting

  

  Today I began to add detail to the commissioned abstract painting I'm working on. Each layer has to dry before the next can be applied, especially since the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Continuing Work on New Abstract Painting Commission

  

  After painting a basic background on this new abstract painting commission, I began to mix the acrylic paint for colors that are not available straight from... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• If You Never Get Anxious, Don't Read This

  For those of us who suffer from anxiety, our lives can become limited and small if we let it interfere with the things we want to do. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beginning A New Painting Commission

  

  I recently got a new commission to paint a large canvas in the style and colors of a small painting I had made with acrylic on watercolor paper. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Abstract Drawing in Blue and Green

  

  I began this drawing using the broad nib of a double-tipped calligraphy marker. I worked with a variety of shades of blue, creating a free-form image with a... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The What If Game

  What if this and what if that? It is a silly, futile game bound to lead nowhere, yet somehow drags us into its machinations.  Sometimes we use the what... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• First Abstract Drawing of 2013

  

  I wanted this first abstract drawing of 2013 to have a celebratory feeling. I began with shades of green, using the broad nibs of colored calligraphy markers... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• ASK MIZZY, Part 2

  Dear Mizzy, I am embarrassed to be writing to you, but I’m at my wits end. I work hard every day at a job I don’t even like, but when I come home at night the... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Abstract Drawing in Black Ink on Paper

  

  This abstract drawing I made with black ink on paper reflects a bit of the mood I was in at the end of the year. Days are short and my mind wanders down... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Blue and Gray Match the Sky in New Painting on Paper

  

  I am still working with acrylic on watercolor paper, in a size small enough to fill completely in one painting session. I began with ultramarine and cobalt blue... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ask Mizzy

  Dear Mizzy, After 22 years of a good marriage—at least I thought it was good, but I must have been badly mistaken—my husband “Albert” told me he has never had... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Landscape Feel in New Painting on Paper

  

  I didn't begin this painting with a plan in mind, but it ended up having a landscape feel to it, though not one with a typical horizon. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Waiting for Something to Happen

  My daughter used to say that there was a cloud of chaos surrounding Adrian and me.  There was always an emergency, a problem, or a project to engross... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beginning a New Abstract Painting on Paper

  

  In this new abstract painting on paper, I started with Pyrole orange, painting it on with a brush. I began with five shapes--a large block of color in the cente... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Another Black and White and Gray Painting

  

  Continuing my fabulous feelings for this time of year, I painted again in black and white and gray. With a foot of snow outside my window, the white is... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Reading the JUST SO STORIES

  One of the amazing things about reading to a young child is the fact that they want to hear the same story over and over and over.  I wonder, is it new fo... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION