Trying anything new is always trying. I'm deep into my illustrating project and I'm visiting places I've been before. The whole progression was a learning curve. First I designed my characters. Then I did a storyboard of each page. Those parts went fairly well. Next I had to find out the specifications and format I . . . → Read More: Trying IS Trying
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Read this first: Down In The Valley My breath was knocked out of me at Jean Do's plight because I absolutely cannot imagine my brain being alive and not being able to do what I'm doing now – communicating my thoughts and words to you. But he wrote a whole book AFTER this happened to . . . → Read More: What’s My Hurry?  One comment  art, Bikram yoga, Books, careers, Family, Health and Fitness, home decorating, illustrating, personal development, photography, self-improvement, Spirituality, Weblogs, working out, writing  being present, down in the valley, Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, slow down and enjoy life, the Steve Laube agency Tonight, after a harrowing day of taking my daughter for lasik surgery yesterday, I wanted nothing better than a quiet evening in my chair, with a glass of wine, after a nice dinner. (It all turned out fine even though we sat in traffic due to an accident, arrived two minutes before the appointment because, . . . → Read More: Taught By Tulips If you don't know Keith Jennings, get to know him through his Sunday newsletter, Root Notes. A few weeks ago I published a post about Keith's newsletter on his resolutions. Keith is a writer and shared with us some very wincing things we do when we write, and his resolutions to fix them. I . . . → Read More: A “New” Writer? I firmly believe that the relationships between mothers and daughters and fathers and sons are sacred. They reach far, far into every other relationship in our life. They determine how we will find and treat a spouse. They determine how we will raise and treat our children. They determine how we will behave in close . . . → Read More: That’s True, BUT… Yes. A day of studying trees. Today while working on my illustrating project it became apparent, as my focus shifted from my main characters to the backgrounds, there are a lot of trees involved. I needed to explore tree parts and shadows. I also think each picture is going be quite small, so I needed . . . → Read More: Studying Trees Some days are just filled with love. Not big, huge starry-eyed I'm falling in love love, but teeny tiny fondness love for little ordinary things. This weekend, as I cleaned, relaxed, and did artwork, I found myself saying "I really love and appreciate ______." to my husband four or five times. I asked him to . . . → Read More: iLuv Lazy Sunday afternoon, no more football, cold outside….almost February first….time to move on. Away with the snowflakes on the window and the snowmen around the room. Time to pull away the furniture, wash the floor, vacuum the ceiling fan and the multitude of other tasks it takes to clean a room from top to bottom . . . → Read More: Moving On How familiar is that phrase? For the last two weeks I've had more "I don't feel like it" moments than is normal for me. When it came time to go to yoga or fit club, to write, draw, go to a meeting, etc. I had two choices. One, I could just get up and push . . . → Read More: I Just Don’t Feel Like It Today’s quote in yesterday’s Cape Cod Times was: “Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” ~ Danny Kaye I love this quote. Right away I picture a white canvas with all bright colors being spattered and swirled all over it. Life. Big, beautiful, exciting…..etc. Then . . . → Read More: Painting! |
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