Collage: Temptation
With all my work and writing behind the scenes of this blog, I haven’t had much time to create any new collages lately. I started this one a couple of weeks ago after taking a blurry shot of my niece...
View ArticleApril 2014 Common Thread Give-a-way
It’s time for the Common Thread Give-a-way again and just in time for Easter! This time I’m the featured artist and I am offering an Easter-themed photo collage I call “Easter Bunny.” It’s always fun...
View ArticleSomething New
Over the last year my photographs have been chosen for two Healing with Arts shows at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at DHMC in Lebanon, N.H. At the last show a fellow artist told me about a four-week...
View ArticleScenes from Class
Wax on Paper I had my third encaustic painting class tonight. We started with photo transfers on to a wax surface. You basically apply a xerox print to the wax, which you burnish and then use water to...
View ArticleChildhood Moments
Dancers at The Artist’s Childhood Exhibit, Rose Street Gallery The three dancers skipped over the hardwood floor of the gallery, pretending to catch fireflies. They reenacted childhood, creating...
View ArticleEvolution of an Art Project
My digital collages are frequently works in progress. While the initial digital aspects of the collage don’t often take long to create, it frequently takes me awhile to get to the sewing and drawing...
View ArticleMoon Child Encaustic
Here’s my first official encaustic painting. I say first official because the other encaustic works I have done all prominently featured wax-dipped collages. This does too, but at the base of the work...
View ArticleIt All Starts with the Children
It was a busy weekend. On Saturday I attended an Open House at author Jon Katz’s Bedlam Farm. Sunday, my niece Ellie came down and we went for a hayride at a local pumpkin farm where we got to choose...
View ArticleJournal Jam
My sister-in-law Gretchin and I are putting together a series of joint art and writing prompt classes that we are calling Journal Jam. We will be announcing the location of the first workshop shortly....
View ArticleWriting Projects
I haven’t been blogging much lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. I had three articles due by New Year’s — one on real estate sales, one on Rutland Regional Medical Center and one on...
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