Louise's ARTiculations
Hazel E. Taniuchi: a lifelong creative passion. When friends ask when I started painting…I tell them that I started painting even before I was born. Until I posted my work on Instagram and Facebook no one except my family … Read More
“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.” – Ernest Dowson, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson. This post from September … Read More
“Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.” ~ Edward A. Albee. Doodling is creative magic. (September 2016 post.) If you have doodled while talking on the phone (more difficult these days with smartphones), or while in a lecture hall, … Read More
Tatiana Mack: art changes an entire family. Tatiana is a self-taught contemporary and abstract artist who took an interest in art at an early age. Born in Russia, Tatiana moved to the United States as a young adult. Here she … Read More
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely…or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~ Hafez, (approx. 1320 AD), a prolific poet, wanted to write poetry that was divinely inspired so he memorised the Koran. … Read More
What is in my basket…a look back at 2015…and looking ahead to changes. First published within a few months of starting this blog, What is in my basket is about the watercolour techniques I learned in one of the … Read More
Laura Hunt nurtures her artistic soul. My childhood on a central Texas farm, while idyllic in many ways, lacked any hint of art education. Once a larger world of art books, galleries, and museums, opened up to me, I soaked … Read More
Free Pet Portrait won by newsletter subscriber Trudy’s story as told by her owner. “Trudy had a natural, gentle kindness; she loved life and everyone and everything in it. She went everywhere with us and became the mascot for … Read More
Canada Day 2020 will look a bit different. Canada Day 2020 will be like no other July 1. There will be no parades, no fairs, no huge barbecues, no mass parties in city centres. Of course we will mark … Read More
We are captive on the carousel of time… On the carousel of time, we can only look behind. I am reminded, especially in June with two birthdays and a wedding anniversary, of years passing. When, for a second time, … Read More
