Bridging Worlds through Creativity

Posts from the ‘spirit’ category

Pears & Grapes

Summer is meant to be spent outdoors, and while I don’t consider myself a plein air painter yet, I love painting from nature. During the warmer…

Wild Abandon

The Wild Arts Festival will be happening soon, in Portland Oregon, November 17-18, 2018. Every year, hundreds of artists donate a piece of original art under…

Do I Love Nature?

I am asked to contemplate these questions: Do I love Nature? Does nature love me? It seems simple enough…Do I love Nature? Yes! Does Nature love…

Loosening Up

Open. It’s the word I picked. Or it picked me, popping into my mind when Andie Thrams suggested we select a word for the watercolor weekend retreat:…

Watercolor Retreat

Drenching rain is forecast for the entire weekend, and will possibly flood our camp. So much for my hoped-for sunny weekend in California… Camp Lotus is…

Jack the Dog

It’s been a few days since I’ve been in my studio, but on Saturday attended an all-day workshop learning the basics of encaustic and encaustic collage.…