Design: The logical selection and arrangement of visual elements for order and interest. Everything our eyes rest upon can be described as a design. For example, the veins in a leaf, the lines on a hand, or billowing clouds. Even when we doodle or scribble, we can call these marks we make with our tools—pencils, sticks, fingers—designs! It’s quite Continue Reading
Palette Colors for Painting Blue and Cloudy Skies
“Once you have tasted the taste of the sky, you’ll forever look up.” — Leonardo Da Vinci Are you a cloud gazer who enjoys looking up at the sky, curious to see what familiar shapes and images might form? It can be exciting to see a shape emerge as the wind currents blow through the moisture in the clouds: a dog, a cat, an angel, maybe a shape like a Continue Reading
Grand Coulee’s Grandeur to Creston’s Fields of Gold
In 2018, Kirk and I took a road trip from our home in Edmonds. We headed north then east over the scenic Cascade Mountains and then up to British Columbia, Canada. Since it was at the end of summer the kids were back in school so we happily missed the tourist season crowds. On our return trip, we chose to travel south then east through northeastern, Continue Reading
Can You Say: Caulk a Doddle Do?
“You can’t use up creativity, the more you use the more you have.” — Maya Angelou I was in my garage art studio looking at a thin piece of 30x36” Masonite board that is sitting in the corner. I had just finished a repurposing project using up some of the old baseboards. The outdoor planter I created was almost finished and required a little bit of Continue Reading