Juliejordanscott

LATEST ARTICLES ( 824 )

• Monday Morning: In All Your Gorgeous Imperfection *much Like Mine* Welcome!

  

  Monday, with all your imperfections, welcome. You are in good company with your cracks and mottled not-quite-matching-all-the-time colors. Not one of us is... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Four Week Adventure with "Chemo-Face"

  

  Four weeks ago today I drove to the pharmacy with determination in my step and retrieved medicine labeled “dangerous” and started applying it to my face. The... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Creating When the Flow Stops Flowing - What Do You Do to Keep Going When You...

  

  I have to express something and it feels so contrary to even say it so I am just going to breathe it out: I’m feeling creatively flat. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Following the Flow Into Process... and the Most Important Product of All

  

  I have learned my process is oftentimes the sole product necessary. This was one of those days.   For some reason "russet" spoke to me. I didn't actually know... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Living Into Art Every Day & Consciously Supporting the Community That Grew with...

  

  This Art Every Day Check in post has three distinctive parts. If you solely want to see the visual art imagery, the photos/editing of the hotel room will be... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Art Begets Art: Peeling Paint and Twenty Three Years Or Many More Years Later

  

  I have purchases several "Umbrella Mugs" at Estate Sales lately. I've actually found myself collecting memorabilia when others are selling it off. Today, I... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Following the Flow.... Always Feels Better (and Better and Better)

  

  Following my intuition, I found autumn, my favorite ducks, changed landscapes and wrote with Literary Granny Virginia Woolf as my Guide The night before, I slep... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Following the Creative Flow Down Yesterday's Road. This Time, Perhaps, in Layers?

  

  When I started the Art Every Day Challenge I knew my approach would be different than earlier years when I had a plan. I knew where I was going, I had a map, an... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Morning Pages + Blobs of Cheap Acrylic Paint = New Awareness X Feeling Better...

  

  This is the a-ha that came at the end of the paint blobs and the morning pages. :-) My journey to today’s art combined morning pages and a serious amount of flo... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Going with the Flow: Photos from the Mouth of the Kern River (less of a Flow Tha...

  

  Yes, I had Jaxon duty yesterday from 11 to 7. He is a good co-creative to travel with... as you can see here. Yesterday started chaotically and stayed chaotic... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Video Performance of "Sometimes I Hate to Write Poetry" (You Might Call This an...

  

  I was first conscious of this poem’s nagging to be born in August or September. It was dribbling lines and ideas into my mind but I was pretty good at tossing... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Allowing the Space to Feel Into the Battle for My Face

  

  I wish I could remember more specifically when I started to feel it: must have been about five days into my facial chemo treatments. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• "Scribble Scrabble" -- When A Day in the Life of Art Everyday Meets Fussy, This...

  

  If I was a baby, I would have been fussing all day yesterday, perhaps waiting for a tooth to break through or having a gassy belly from something Mommy was... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Beautiful Comes in Different Packages

  

  We might think we know what beautiful is until we encounter it... differently. Beautiful. It comes with different faces. I had a rough day yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Follow the Flow into the Creative Process: This is What Flow Looks Like....

  

  It was only hours earlier I decided to undecided on my theme for Art Every Day Month. Usually I have a theme but this year, given my circumstances of health... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Following the Creative Flow, One Day at a Time #aedm2014

  

  Art Every Day Month usually begins with a wild, passionate, purposeful pronouncement of what you may expect from me throughout the month of artfulness November... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• It is Bold to Just Sit There, Doing... Not Much of Anything with an "Ing"...

  

  Not watching, not talking, not engaging, not... anything-ing It is bold to do this nothing. Awake nothing. Not falling asleep or being (I hesitate to use that... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• It is Bold to Stop Procrastinating and Simply, Finally, It's About Time... Begin

  

  This morning my skin smells slightly metallic, sort of like the way a hypodermic needle smells after they’ve pushed the medicine under your skin and the nurse... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• It is Bold to Be Countercultural, Even in Seemingly Insignificant Ways

  

  A new week, a white canvas, new opportunities to create!   It is a bold act to be countercultural, even in the seemingly insignificant ways. This morning I was... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nobody Ever Said Boldness Was Going to Be Fun, Easy Or Simple to Understand

  

  There are some forms of grief that are difficult to understand, share and experience. This is one of them. I haven’t written about this because it still makes m... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION