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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Week 11 Not so many words this week, catching my breath from some unexpecteds. It’s a rainy day here, noticing the tones, more than the colors, layers of fog, dark mountains, patches of fields as i ride through the countryside to see my brother and back to the dale. So it seemed a good word
Week 10: Slack Back to Who’s Driving and thoughts on a challenging week below but first a stream write: Slack, a loose rope or a flat band, really, a slack line, slightly elastic, buoyant, with bounce yes! Bounce back, that is what slack allows you, to bounce back, up and down, not just down. Up
Week 9:Crow in Disguise i’ve come back to the previous drawing of a Crow that looks like an Eagle, now in a finished state. (there may be some minor changes but i don’t think i’ll post it again) Below a stream write, i hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading! “Words Escape Me” You would
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