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• Integration, Harmony and Transformation

  While looking through a book about mandalas, I read that they are symbols of integration, harmony, and transformation.  That's exactly what I want in my... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Influenced by George Rouault

  

  The thing I fell in love with in Georges Rouault's painting years ago was the way he outlined shapes in thick black lines. In desperation, that's what I tried i... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Modern Art Four - Today's Featured Abstract Painting

  

  MODERN ART FOUR Pictograph games. Original 44" x 44" acrylic painting on canvas requires no frame and is ready to hang - $2100 Limited edition Giclée prints on... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• More Thoughts on Death and Dying

  I used to think of dying when I was in a deep depression and couldn’t imagine ever feeling better. In my bipolar highs, I was invincible and life had infinite... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sweeping Changes Made in New Painting Session

  

  I let my red white and yellow painting sit for quite a while before I decided it needed more work. I just wasn't happy with the intense yellow and red. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Preparing to Die

  When I experience a new ache or pain, I immediately think it is a sign of something terminal.  I say to myself to assuage the fear, "I have had a goo... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Six New Abstract Paintings Are Now on My Website

  

  I recently added six of my new abstract paintings to my website on the gallery page I have reserved for my latest work. There is always a lag between creating... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Today's Featured Abstract Painting: Tortoise View

  

  TORTOISE VIEW Not slow, but sequestered in intricate layers. Original 36" x 36" acrylic painting on canvas requires no frame and is ready to hang - $1550 Limite... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Meandering Mind Looks Inward at the Women's Writing Circle*

  I haven’t been kind enough to myself in the past, but I am gradually learning how to do it better.  For example, as we were having our “moment of quiet”... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Trip Anxiety

  Does everyone get trip anxiety?  Does it get worse as we get older? When I was seventeen I got on a plane (before jets) and flew 3,000 miiles from my... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Today's Featured Abstract Painting

  

  TRIANGLE POSE In a lyrical wishing to be. Original 36" x 36" acrylic painting on canvas requires no frame and is ready to hang - $1550 Limited edition Giclée... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• How I Became an Abstract Expressionist Painter

  When I was a child, I always colored carefully in my coloring books, never straying outside the lines.  When I began to draw and paint I tried to copy... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Do I Have a Drinking Problem?

  I am not going to think about how much I’d like to have a glass of wine right now, or the fact that I agreed with my therapist this afternoon that I would engag... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A New Pen and Ink Drawing for Spring

  

  We've been getting snow flurries in April this year, so I had to find my inner spring in order to create this drawing. It's filled with the color, movement and... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Drawing with Colored Calligraphy Markers

  

  Every now and then I take a break from painting and get out my Zigg memory calligraphy markers. I love the way the line changes from fat to thin as I sweep the... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Working in an Abstract Expressionist Mode

  

  I was happy to get back to my abstract expressionist mode with this new acrylic painting. I used a medium sized brush, applying the paint directly from the tube... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Revising the Red, White and Yellow Painting

  

  Some paintings are easy to keep working on, while others seem like pulling teeth.  If I am enamored of my first efforts, I often find it hard to change the basi... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mindful/Mindless Eating, Part 2

  In my previous post, I wrote about the virtuous nature of not "wasting" food as a reason for my mindless eating.  But that's not what happens... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Artists Are a Target for Scammers

  

  When someone shows an interest in our art, and in fact says they want to buy it, we are naturally excited and eager to make the sale.  We have more artists... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mindful/Mindless Eating

  I know it would be a good idea to eat only when I'm hungry, to do nothing else except eat when I'm eating, and to savor each bite, stopping when my stomach tell... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION