Week 21: Little Mischief Just the beginning of color this week… Mischief! Among other things… i’ve been thinking about and distracted by a bit of mischief. i made up a game as a gift for my childhood friend who got married yesterday. She and i got into mischief together as teens, sneaking out to go […]
Week 20: Moxie Cake Becomes Ooda Cake You are in the river aiming for something on the far side but that feisty current has interrupted you, nearly tipped you as you went for it. Ooda! Hmm. Fight with a current? Better to float down stream, take the path of least resistance. Keep your bird eye
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Week 19: Abracadabra A few musings on Abracadabra with a magic themed drawing from last year. Abracadabra! The way we send our magic into the world. Our spell, the wave of our wand. We may use words or other forms of communication to invoke our intention to change, transform or heal something or someone. Does
Week 18: Mix, Nix & Moxie Cake This cake is nearly baked, it might just float… Despite considerable effort, it feels like i have only nibbled to complete a project i’ve been working on for several months. i think i’m close to finished, until i get some distance from it. Having cut a lot, upon
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Week 17: Rivercake its a traveling day offering, the pre-color start of a new piece and a stream write. i hope your ride down the river is a fun dream, frosting cream and all. Rivercake: a cake floating down a river, candles lit, fluffy frosting spills over, some floats up into the air. So much
Week 16: Compass &Tassels This week i return to an earlier idea i explored about resistance. First a stream writing sparked from the red tassels in this week’s drawing. Tassel, a thin red tassel at the bottom of my curtain trickles in the cool morning breeze, trickles and tickles of sweet fragrant air wake me
Week 15: Pink & Orange i’m surprised i keep picking pink and orange to work with. When i was a kid, i didn’t like the color orange except sometimes in nature. i wasn’t too hot on pink either. How we change… Do you ever find yourself drawn to something you used to resist or didn’t
Week 14: Stripe This week i planned to return to an earlier bit of writing i was tussling with, resisting, instead i realized i was still pushing too hard. Midweek, i played with numbers and it was just the thing to bring back the play. i want to bring it back into the writing even
Week 13: Experiments What if i only used red and tones of grey? i really liked how the red candlestand stood out when i first added the color but later as i added more colors, i felt like it lost something. So, i tried going back to grey tones except for the candlestand. It’s not
Week 12: More thoughts from The war of Art Below is a little riff on resistance from having recently read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield i think i am understanding resistance in a new way. The tension created from resistance is actually a gift. Resistance, that place that shows up as a kind
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