Do you know the twisting and turning feeling of falling down the rabbit-hole? The kind of serendipitous disorientation of following one thing that leads to another until you turn a corner…
finding inspiration
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As I mentioned in my last post, the lack of color in this Journey’s inspiration artwork by Aubrey Beardsley posed a creative challenge for me. Yes, I could have stuck more…
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The book was called Le Morte d’Arthur, a (relatively) modern reworking of the existing Arthurian legends by Sir Thomas Malory. The London publisher, J.M. Dent & Co. sought an artist to…
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I love this journey’s beautiful inspirations. Of course, I’m most drawn to the bird imagery in the painting “Birds and Fruit in Snow” by Kumashiro Yuhi. Even though it’s a subtle…
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When Frank Lloyd Wright was just a young boy, his mother bought him a set of Froebel Blocks. These simple wooden building blocks (the kind we have likely all played with…
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Have I ever told you about my attack-cat, Tiger? When I was about four years old we went to the animal shelter and I got to pick out a cat. We…
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My expedition for the Art Bead Scene’s Journey #7 started as an accidentally beadmaking session where I created these beads that were not supposed to look like leopard print but that’s…
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There seems to be a lot of cat-lovers in the beading world! Our theme for Art Journey #7 will honor those bead-cats with art centered on the big cats: lions, leopards,…
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We’ve been back from our big summer trip to Great Britain for a couple of months now, but I’m just now having time to sit down and flesh out the idea…
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Summer is always a busy time for my husband and I… and this year has probably been even busier than normal. Things are only now starting to slow down a tiny…