Tag: abstract art

  • Get Messy Pattern Play Workshop

    Get Messy Pattern Play Workshop

    Join me this August for an pattern-based art journaling workshop with Get Messy! My lesson, Pattern Play: Security Envelopes dives into one of the most ubiquitous art supplies around. Together, we’ll get inspiration, create our own collage materials, and create two different art journal spreads. I’ll also walk through all…

  • Messy May 2023

    Messy May 2023

    Over the weekend I took part in a Creative Hour conversation with Caylee Grey, Meg of Meg Journals, Claudette Hasenjager and more than 100 other art journalers. Caylee is the founder of Get Messy, and Claudette, Meg, and I are three of thirty artists leading this year’s Messy May, a…

  • Why abstract art?

    Why abstract art?

    I admire photorealism: it takes a huge amount of patience and technical skill to represents external reality well. What I love about abstract art, though, is the conveying of emotion, experience, thought, and existence through form, color, movement, texture, and composition. It represents internal reality. When I create my work,…

  • Greens & Neons

    Greens & Neons

    Recent mixed media art journal pages featuring a variety of papers, acrylic paints and inks, tempera paint, oil pastel, paint marker, graphite, and colored pencil.

  • Rust & Olive Branches

    Rust & Olive Branches

    I pulled together images from last year’s trip to Tunisia (the olive branches at the bottom of the collage), a rusty sheet of metal, images of my own mixed media art, and part of an old family photo.