Chillin’ at the coast with my girlfriends on our annual women’s retreat. Pitt artist pens.
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Awhile back, my pal Gina turned me on to the work of Portland, Oregon artist Gary Hirsch, the creator of JoyBots – “A tiny (and sometimes giant) robot army programmed to bring you joy.” Hirsch’s bots are tiny talismans painted on the back of dominos. They can be left in random places for people […]
On my long runs, I see lots of interesting objects on the trail or side of the road, and I wonder about the stories behind them. I save a list of them in my head with the intention of drawing them when I get home, but I never do. I also contemplate writing a […]
Sometimes when we think about art and creativity we imagine that it takes a huge amount of time and materials, when really it is often about expanding the way we look at things and using everyday items in a different way. Today’s “creativity moment” literally took five minutes. However, I couldn’t have done this in […]
Every year I participate in an online challenge called Art Every Day Month. (More info here.) Here’s today’s piece. I was planning to go to a Día de los Muertos celebration with some friends today, and was thinking about my dear grandmother Nellie who died a few months ago as I doodled this calavera. […]
Desperate to get out of the hospial for awhile, we went for coffee and found a lovely courtyard in between several shops and restaurants. Leslie finished charting yesterday’s patients while I sketched this rusty metal sculpture of Don Quixote.
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Last night I spent a couple of wonderful hours talking and scribbling with my visual thinker friends John and Veda. We are all reading Lynda Barry’s new book Syllabus and working through many of her exercises, acting as support group for each other. John also shared the stuff he’s been doing from Ivan Brunetti’s book […]
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Semi-blind contour drawing of the Sea Ranch Chapel. I think the section I did completely “blind” (stone wall in the foreground) is far more interesting than the section in which I “cheated” a bit (texture on the roof of the chapel.) I may add some watercolor later. One of the stained glass windows, from inside […]
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I’m off on a retreat with ten of my women friends. Step one: figure out who sleeps where. Joellen claimed the cosy, tiny loft bed and sat up there with a satisfied grin, looking about nine years old. I think she looks a bit like Marcie from Peanuts.