Love Quatraine

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Drawn on Coffee

One more post before the month is over. I still have a lot of sketches to share and  am working on finding time to do some more collages (wow, the previous sentence needs to have more conviction to it!). Lots of changes going on around the world…. I am just sitting and seeing it all turn. [...]

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Calling all the Archangels

The Archangel Michael leads the Army of God. According to Wikipedia, {argh}. Michael is an Archangel in the Christian, Islamic, and Hebrew traditions. He is the patron of the warrior. I love the power of iconic images, the symbolism of the Catholic faith I have left behind yet respect in its ability to give visual [...]

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Fading to Cheshire: An Art Exorcise

From Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Cheshire Cat: Oh, by the way, if you’d really like to know, he went that way.  Alice: Who did?  Cheshire Cat: The White  Rabbit.  Alice: He did? Cheshire Cat: He did what?  Alice: Went that way.   Cheshire Cat: Who did?   Alice: The White Rabbit.   Cheshire Cat: What rabbit?   Alice: [...]

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Henna Tattoo [a first]

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Words…Words…Words…..Swords

It is said that the tragedy of Hamlet is consumed between ‘words’ and ‘swords’. Words, words, words murmur the duelling characters… Some may say words are swords, of the most insidious kind, and that that which is uttered – or written- has a potential for far more damage than a weapon meant to plunge in [...]

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Old Time Radio

While I work, I sometimes listen to my ipod, my Pandora Channel or NPR. I recently embraced the gospel of the Flylady, as I have to seriously declutter and organize my living quarters, and audiobooks keep me company during my chores, i mean, my ’27 Fling Boogies’… But my favorite audiocandy is stories: I am [...]

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A Missed Anniversary

It has been a year and a month (almost) since I started Sketchbloom, and five months since it bloomed. So happy 1st yr. Birthday to me. It’s also been about a year since I gave up my physical studio @ Brokers Building in Gaslamp; miss the extra space but, ironically I produce way more creative [...]

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Healing Art

Art is a wound turned into light. Georges Braque (Thank You Lamees)

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