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View fullsize Days 20 and 21 in #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver. I got swept away yesterday so 2 for 1 today and sadly an ending to this wonderful challenge! The insight, sharing, support and inspiration has truly been a daily pleasure for 3 weeks. I Dream fo
View fullsize Day 19 of #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver and our prompt is From the Archives. This was a piece ala Andy Warhol, I used ink and collage, many years ago before I was on Instagram! I still like it a lot....I used my sons likeness, swipe for a curr
View fullsize Day 18 in #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver has arrived. CELEBRATE is our prompt. I thought about this one long and hard. There is no single event that changed my course in 2019. There was lots of great stuff that happened tho , new partnerships,
View fullsize Day 17! #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver. Our prompt is Largest Painting. I generally top out at 30”x40” and 36” square although I do have a 4’x5’ white canvas staring at me in the studio. Sooooon! Very soooon!! I do
View fullsize Day 16 in @taraleaver #21daysinmyartworld and the prompt is Smallest Painting. This little guy is 5”x7” acrylic and collage on canvas. It’s the only small I have....even my sketch book is larger. The smallest I generally work on is
View fullsize This is an oldie but perfect for today’s Prompt in #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver. Day 15: How I Name My Paintings.....Historically this has been a point of consternation. I’d hemmmm and hawwwww and then pick something super unimag
View fullsize Day 14 of #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver. Wow 2 weeks gone already! Today’s prompt is SOLD. I usually don’t post sold paintings (I believe there was one exception) but based on the challenge prompt I will share that December was a H
View fullsize It’s a snow filled Saturday here in SE Michigan! We’ve had a super mild and snow free winter so far so it’s a vision of beauty thru the windows on this Day 13 with @taraleaver #21daysinmyartworld ❤️Today’s prompt is Process In
View fullsize Day 12 of #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver and the prompt is Current Motifs. I am a doodler from way back in catholic school when the nuns gave me detention for messing around on my bookcovers! So my current motif is doodles, lines, pen work and
View fullsize Today is Day 11 in @taraleaver s #21daysinmyartworld. The prompt for today is Turning Point. I reported last year that my turning point was plunging headfirst into acrylics. A year later I still agree with this change in medium and still consider it
View fullsize Day 10!!! #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver and our prompt for today is a Selfie. 😆. It will be so nice to put faces to names although I’d be lieing if I didn’t say I looked at our prompt list twice expecting Artists Hands! This is a
View fullsize Today is Day 9 in @taraleaver #21daysinmyartworld!!! Our prompt is Where the Art Happens❤️ This is my studio. Otherwise known as The Nest. Also known as Up Top. A spacious place with tremendous light and lots of room for all my supplies! We live in
View fullsize Today is Day 8 in #21daysinmyartworld with @taraleaver. Our prompt is Inspiration. Where do we get our ideas from? Currently I’m working on 2 fairly large series. One is The Neighborhood Series. These are my wonky houses and if you’ve bee
View fullsize Day 7 in #21daysinmyartworld is here...Happy Sunday! Today’s prompt is Colour Palette. It’s simple. I Love blues and pinks with some cad red medium thrown in! Different hues and values but the pallete holds true. Even when I’m going
View fullsize Day 6!!! Our prompt today for #21daysinmyartworld is a Current Challenge. As artists and humans we face numerous challenges on a regular basis. Some huge, some tiny. In the scheme of things this challenge is small....mostly annoying, irritating, frus
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View fullsize Happy Hump Day!!! Today is Day 4 of #21daysinmyartworld hosted by @taraleaver !!!! The prompt is Art Book. I am a collector of all things books including Art Books. I wax and wane thru them, and always revisit for inspiration based on a current work
View fullsize Today is Day 3 in the wonderful world @taraleaver created for us in #21daysinmyartworld !!!! Our prompt today is WIP...a work in progress. This #wip is 100% in its ugly, awkward, where am I going and how will I get there stage!!!🤣 It’s a good
View fullsize Happy Tuesday! And Day 2 of @taraleaver s #21daysinmyartworld challenge!!! Today’s prompt is Lesson Learned. I’m not going to think too hard or too deep on this and just simply say Don’t let fear get in your way! Don’t second
View fullsize Day 1 of @taraleaverart s #21daysinmyartworld is TODAY!!!!! Today’s prompt asks for a favorite painting... I chose this 36”x36” mixed media piece on cradled wood panel.... swipe to see last years Day 1 fav and also the launching pie