For Throwback Thursday, I am publishing a watercolour painting completed in 2016 in a sketchbook. If you wish to learn to sketch and paint in a sketchbook, visit my workshop page. This type of activity is inexpensive and very relaxing. … Read More
For International Women’s Day. (March 8, 2019) A few years ago, I participated in a year long gratitude journal challenge issued by Jenny Frith on Instagram. In my journal, I sketched, collaged, painted, and thought about all the people, events, … Read More
Playing in a sketchbook is good therapy. Have you had days when… Nothing seems to go the way you want it to? You have many projects in various stages of completion, but you don’t feel like working on them? The … Read More
February’s teacups are the epitome of femininity. Delicate flowers, tiny porcelain feet, gold filigree embellishments… For Valentine’s Day, I send you a virtual hot cuppa along with tender morsels of chocolate to sweeten your day. This post was previously published … Read More
For this Throwback Thursday, I looked through old posts and found this portrait which I used on my first business cards. I think it might be time to find a new image for my business cards. Any suggestions? I am … Read More
Journaling along the way… At first glance, the idea of having many projects on the go might seem…shall we say, a bit scatterbrained? I prefer to look at it as multi-tasking. So while I do have probably 8 different … Read More
Testing new palettes on a wintry day. It’s time once again to share a page from one of my oh so many sketchbooks. This one in particular is used for swatching colours and trying out new palettes. In past posts, … Read More
Sketches on a beach: capturing the idea “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.” ~ Paul Klee, was a Swiss artist who taught in Germany until his art was seen as indecent by the Nazis. He returned … Read More
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” ~Ezra Pound (For Throwback Thursday, I look to one of my early posts as a blogger published in … Read More
One year ends and another begins…with a giveaway As I close off 2018, and prepare for 2019, I am ever thankful for you, my friends from near and far, who have been loyal readers of my blog, or who have … Read More
(This post was previously published on December 19, 2016.) “We’re gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas!” (Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation). Whenever I see Christmas lights, I think of one of my favourite movies, National Lampoon’s … Read More
(This post was previously published on December 4, 2016.) Why do so many people cringe at the sight of fruitcake? Lovingly homemade, a Christmas fruitcake is a work of art. Nonna’s (we called her Nonni) Christmas cake was a lemon … Read More