united way fundraiser

As as personal fundraiser for the United Way this year, I am selling posters of some of my photographs, with inspirational quotes on them. Prints (laminated 8 1/2 x 11" colour photocopies) are $10 each, and PDFs (electronic versions of each poster, which can be used as desktop backgrounds) are $2.

Text on the above poster: Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. (Oprah Winfrey)



Text: In spite of illness, in spite of even sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintigration if one is unfraid of change, insatiable in curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. (Edith Wharton)



Text: You never grow old; you become old when you stop growing.



Text: Play nice.



Text: Remember your humanity and forget the rest. (Albert Einstein)



Text: Sleep when you're tired.



Text: That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. (Emily Dickinson)



Text: Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. (William Morris)



Text: Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. (Greg Anderson)



Text: Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)



Text: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. (Owen Meredith)



Text: One must ask children how strawberries and cherries taste. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)



Text: The flower offered of itself, and eloquently spoke of gods, in languages of rainbows, pefumes and secret silence. (Phillip Pulfrey)



Text: Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. (Emily Dickenson)



Text: Now Autum's fire burns slowly among the woods, and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. (William Allingham)

Just found this awesome collaborative animation on YouTube. I am so inspired now...

my new art journal

I bought this awesome 100% recycled-paper Ecojot journal at Dandelion Mud Pie yesterday.



I love the sturdy coils and thick, cardboard covers.



Last night I started prepping the pages - randomly pasting in scraps of coloured paper and ephemera. Later I wrote notes to myself on some of the pages.



This morning I finished the inside front cover spread. The collaged paper on the right side was actually the first page, describing the journal. I ripped it out and tore it and pasted it back into the journal on one of the sturdier note pages.



This is the second spread that I completed this morning. What I love about this journal is that it can stand on its side, which will allow me to display one page at a time. I'll have to remember that when I'm composing future pages.

more recent sketches

Most of these were created the same weekend as the ones in the previous post. A lot of these sketches are spontaneous images - suggested by colours or forms that I've pasted on the blank pages. I rarely start with an image in mind, but let whatever wants to unfold happen. All images created using collage, Crayola wax crayons, coloured pencil, pencil and china markers.





The above image started as an exercise with Crayola washable markers.

recent sketchbook spreads

I haven't created much art lately, being too busy with my new job. But last weekend I took a much-needed break from working, and spent hours with my sketchbooks, just playing around. All images are collage, with Crayola wax crayons and occasionally pencil, coloured pencil, or china markers.

green stars #2

I think this drawing (from one of my art journals) was actually created before green stars #1. The image is made with Crayola wax crayons and black china marker.

I love working in an art journal, because as I write and draw on future pages, the colours from earlier, adjacent pages become imprinted upon each other, adding to the visual complexity and rhythm to the images.

increase

This is another drawing based on an I Ching reading. The image was created the same way as that in yesterday's post.