I’m taking an online class from Lisa Solomon and Katrina Rodabaugh. It’s a 4 week class and we’re learning all kinds of cool things to do with thread. The first week is all about crochet and let me tell you, me and crochet, we’ve never seen eye-to-eye. I’ve tried, many a times, to slay the…

Hey January 2013, I’ve got something to say to you — Screw you. What a crappy way to start a new year. I got sick on New Year’s eve and ended up with pneumonia and two colds on top of that. No more, I’m done. It’s february 1st, it’s warm, the sun is out, the…

Via IntoTheWoods.tv

In a western town, beneath the northern lights, where the pine trees pine for the fall of night, you believe in cards, you believe in signs and I’ll be leavin’ soon, but I’m here tonight. On a mountainside, well below the stars, keep your lovers eyes in mason jars and I should be scared but…

I’ve been working on imaginary topographical maps. Here’s one: Miles from Nowhere 20″ x 26″ Gouache, marker, block print on paper

Warning, major whine fest ahead. It’s amazing that I’m not asleep right now, but it is what it is. I felt like writing this down so I don’t forget just how horrible things are right now. To put it in perspective, we’re mostly healthy, barring some stubborn pneumonia, so horrible is all relative. Our nightly…

My latest article for Red Tricycle

I sit here in the armchair wrapped in a blanket, listening to the sound of creak creak creak coming from my lungs by way of my throat. The sound reminds me I’m still deep in the woods. I came down with a cold New Year’s Eve and on January 7 I was diagnosed with bacterial…

I was diagnosed with pneumonia a week ago tomorrow. The doctor thinks I was walking around with it for a good long while. I rested all week as best as I could. Tom stayed home from work all week to help take Juniper to daycare and take care of the dog so I could sleep.…

Today I was sick. I have laryngitis, so I don’t feel that bad, but I felt like I had to take it easy. I wanted to work on graphite drawings but didn’t want to inhale graphite. I wanted to try and push the oil paintings further but didn’t want to inhale fumes, so I got…

1. Spend as much time as possible working. Breaks for eating are ok but leave dishes in sink. No housework, no errands unless they absolutely can’t happen while Juniper’s with you. 2. If you’re tired, do jumping jacks and drink coffee. Ignore the “I don’t feel like it” attitude, you do feel like it, just…

wiki entry Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a “human interest and a semblance of truth” into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the…

“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, capsule so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” –Fred Rogers

I keep coming back to Chinese Brush Painting. I see and feel the influence, so I’m watching videos about chinese brush paintings. The similarities are that Chinese Brush Painting incorporate drawing/painting, literature, poetry, calligraphy and seal carving. I’m interested in music literature, poetry, block printing, image transfer and tracing. The differences are what really interest…