I am a color junkie

One in every color: walking into a bead store like Beadazzled or all the quilting fabrics at G Street in huge store sized gradients always thrills me.

It carries over into my art supply addiction, I have a wonderful basket full of pens and pencils and yet I find my self continuing to work on wanting more and just focusing instead on using what I have.

My current addiction are Faber Castell Pitt Artist pens with brush tips. They are so much fun to color with!



My friend Soodesh went to New York last weekend to shop in Jackson Heights -he very kindly brought me some fun Bindi jewels to use in my collages and assemblage pieces. It's fun to have a touch of bling! I can't wait to make something cool with them....

The Evaporation of Summer

How is it August 14th already? My summer is evaporating rapidly. The radio is full of ads for back to school sales - they always make me want to go and buy new crayons, pens and pencils.

In a strange and bittersweet twist as August ends so does my time as "the mother of a student". Greg is finishing at University of Maryland at the end of the month. Since he's been living at home I haven't completely disassociated with this persona of mine. Even though he's grown up and independent, it has been a part of my mental identity that it's time to shed...

I know I will find new and different things to color my world this fall. This weekend I plan to be a student myself, I am determined to re-master Photoshop! I haven't used it in years and found that I have forgotten most of what I used to know how to do...it was on our old home computer and I just never use that one. It's now installed on my laptop and I dug out my Photoshop Elements for Dummies book and even downloaded some new brushes of grunge frames to try out. Here's to a digital visual weekend.

amazing nature - diatoms

eye candy from the Manchester Hermit

Color Wheels

I have always been intrigued by color wheels, and in general I am just a color junkie.

This is a very interesting post about the history of color wheels I came across today.

This is a fun test about your skill at color recognition...coughing modestly....I got a perfect score.

I haven't done any more journal pages in a while, hope to do some art this weekend.

Summer Color

summer color.......

in the beginning....

"ex somnium, color" ?

"from dreams, color" or as close to that as rusty Latin allows.

I am a dreamer, I dream in color. I love those times when I can not completely fall asleep, but my mind is in a dreamlike creative state, snatches of visions, colors, shapes textures all dance across synapses. Inspiration for art as ellusive as wisps of fog that creeps in with deep sleep, but there if I can grasp them before I sink under the surface of the night....
This collage is called "the dreamer" and this is my plunge into the blogoshere. There are so many I enjoy and admire, I was inspired to try this medium of creation and sharing myself. It seems a bit insane, since one of my biggest woes already is not having enough time for artistic pursuits, but art for me is about taking risks. My hopes are that this will be a good one....