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Some sketches to celebrate Spring!
My sketchbook, and the western Colorado weather, is saying it is Spring! I suspect it will be a short-lived spring, jumping much too quickly into summer, as it is already 80+* here this Easter weekend,...
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Moving forward, but slowly.... very slowly
While much of America is ‘getting back to normal’ and getting out and about because the pandemic is ‘over,’ I am still much more comfortable staying in my shell a bit longer. Because the pandemic is,...
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Birth of a Tapestry!
Poe, who has to be involved November, 2020Just before the Pandemic began, we adopted two kittens. Throughout the shutdowns and isolations, they have been our constant companions. They are very...
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News from my Studio…
This was in our local paper a few days ago. I had not seen it and was a bit confused when neighbors told me they’d seen my name in the paper. I was really pleased to have a piece selected for this...
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Where Did My MoJo Go?
It has been hot here.....No, It has been H.O.T! here! We have never had multiple days over 100* in June, but a week ago, we had a full week of days, plus a few more, above 100! It was record breaking...
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First Five, of Thirty
Little Joe Lake, Ontario, Canada w/ Charlotte HamiltonStarting on the 1st of July, I've been participating in a #30places30days challenge with other Sktchy artists. Each day there is a video...
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Seven more, plus a Bonus Peek.....
I'm still doing the 30 day challenge to sketch a different place, in a different style, with a different artist every day for a month. The sketch above was of a duck pond in England, done in...
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More sketches, and a new Tapestry...
#30places30days is moving on. We're up to Day 22 now. Here are 8 more sketches in (from top left) watercolor in England, ink in Rome, markers in an interior, ink in Spain, watercolor in Colorado,...
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30 Places, 30 Days, and Beyond...
These are the final sketches from July's 30places30days Sktchy challenge. I enjoyed doing them all; trying media and techniques I'd otherwise not challenge myself to try. I especially loved doing the...
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Inktober 2021
Prompt: StuckIt is that time of year again! The time when I pull out ink and pens, as well as the Inktense pencils and pan paints, and create daily sketches based on the official Inktober prompts....
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Enough is quite often enough.
After doing 21 Inktober sketches, three weeks of this year's challenge, I decided I was done with it. The later prompts do not inspire me, and I am wanting to use my limited creative time weaving or...
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The Tapestry Arch tapestry...
The Tapestry ArchJust a year ago, in February of 2021, my husband and I drove to the Arches National Monument, a few hours away from us, in Utah. We have been to the Arches a number of times, over the...
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Some Study, Some Experimentation...Some Fun!
Telly at StonehurstEight or so years ago, I painted regularly, as I was in a gallery and needed to keep my space filled. I sold fairly well, which was also motivating. After leaving the gallery (which...
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Little Things….
Sometimes life throws a lot of Big Things at you, and it seems like doing anything at all is beyond you. That is when you need to do little things. I have been doing little things for awhile now, and...
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Long time away, not much happened….
I have mostly been busy doing family ‘maintenance’ for the past months. But I did manage to recently rewarp the Shannock, as I felt a strong need to weave. I listen to those strong urges, because to...
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Selfies....Why?
This afternoon I did this self portrait to end my current sketchbook. I have made a habit of beginning and ending my sketchbooks with self portraits. It is a way of checking in with myself, to see...
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Come see us, if you can!
I have a few tapestries ‘out there in the world’ right now, which is a big change from the past few years, when the pandemic made all exhibits online only. This one, “Yin/Yang” is in the 14th American...
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Summertime, and the living is….HOT!
My life recently has been showing up mostly in my sketchbooks. We went to Kansas to bury my Father, and I sketched on the trip. I also sketched the very small town we lived in for a few years when I...
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Every little thing is gonna be alright!
I was hoping to be adding sketches and photos from a trip to New England now. But that is not to be. We went to the airport, checked our bag and went through security, and settled in to wait to board...
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The trip that finally happened!
We finally were able to take the trip to New England that my heart attack at the airport had delayed. Our flight was the same one we had booked before, very early in the morning. I brought a...
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Recent trip sketch journal
I previously added a few pages from my travel journal from a trip we took to New England. I used the same small sketchbook for our trip a few weeks later to Bryce Canyon National Park, and to view the...
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Inktober… I didn’t miss it!
I have participated in Inktober each October since 2016, but I forgot to post the ink sketches here this year. So here they are. They were all done in a large sketchbook that has paper that won’t take...
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Ready or not…….
It seemed that Thanksgiving snuck up on us this year, with summer easing quietly into a warm fall.And you don’t even have Thanksgiving dishes done and the National Dog Show watched, before being...
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String Theory
Ok, I don’t know anything about string theory, except maybe what I see on The Big Bang. But there is an excellent fiber exhibit right now at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod by that name, now through...
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Challenge accepted!
This is RingoThe American Tapestry Alliance hosts an unjuried exhibition every two years, in conjunction with the Handweavers Convergence conference. It will be held in Wichita, Kansas this summer in a...
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