green, green i'm going away

the Irish have long had the tendency to miss things before they are gone, I find myself doing that lately too ~ we are at the height of summer and I am already starting to lament it's passing...ah, perversity!

Green is such a loaded word these days and "going green" de riguer, it makes me feel a bit ~ old in my "hippy" days I was such an earth mother and filled with energy and zeal - we really lived green, of course going to college in a rural area and living in a neo-commune environment like The Wynne Road Home for Wayward Adults helped my illusion...

Today I enjoy my pots of herbs that comprise my "edible" gardening attempts, I do try hard to recycle everything and keep our thermostat set frugally and be mindful in general.

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....

Rock & Roll

This is a journal page I made inspired by the small piece of post it note I found on the washer, Greg must have pulled it out of his pocket (at least he checks them now!). I was already thinking about what fun it was to be interviewed for his paper for History of Rock & Roll. My studio is conveniently adjacent to the laundry area so I stuck this scrap in my moleskine and made a page about it. I am also very proud to report he found out yesterday he got an A+ in the class -not bad for a senior level history course at Univ of MD...

Summer of Love

August arrives tomorrow and with it the 40th anniversary of Woodstock - in celebration I am getting the Woodstock Moleskine...

they just look so cool and fun. They are sort of hard to find, but Barnes & Noble in Rockville had some so I had them save two for me -I am going to give one to Greg (shhhhh) since he did so well in his history of rock & roll class this summer.

Perhaps I'll have to get some music too, hmmm maybe this?

The Sketchbook Project

I love moleskine notebooks and signed up today to participate in a national sketchbook project that will tour as an exhibit. The Sketchbook Project will send me a moleskine and a theme, I fill it up and send it back to them for the exhibit...should be a fun and interesting challenge.

Confirmed Exhibition Dates:
December 11 - 13, 2009 Atlanta, GA

Art House Gallery
309 Peters St Atlanta, GA 30313
February 19 - 21, 2010 Brooklyn, NY

303Grand
303 Grand St.Brooklyn, NY 11211
April 8 - 11, 2010 Los Angeles, CA

Art and Shelter Gallery at The Salvation Army Alegria
2737 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90039
April 16 - 18, 2010 Saint Louis, MO

Soulard Art Market
2028 S. 12th St Saint Louis, MO 63104

another grey page in progress

Sunday Morning

4 23 09 journal page

back to some color and using some found "inchies" another art fad I fell prey to...

a page a day this one was 4/22

One more grey page... next on to some color. I am so happy that am enjoying my Moleskine again and trying to do a little something everyday rather than feel like I have to wait until I get a big block of time to do art -because that rarely happens. This page was inspired -OK mostly copied - from a page done in Pam Carricker's Shades of Grey Class by Gill McCowan

shades of grey pix