Dabblings – Compulsive Creation

COLOR!!!

Normally, I would avoid using all caps and extra exclamation marks, but this week I’ve been doused, dazzled, drowned in color and the excessive title is necessary to convey my color-drunkeness. It all started when I recently funded a Kickstarter campaign by the watercolor artist Stephanie Law. She’d long been using a mini-watercolor palette ofContinue reading “COLOR!!!”

Terra Cotta FTW!

I don’t really have much for y’all this week EXCEPT that I painted a terra cotta pot. It has been on my to-do list since April to repot my peace lily. At first, I wanted to get one of those bougie pots that they have on Instagram but I felt like spending $45 on aContinue reading “Terra Cotta FTW!”

Community Art Project: I Am From

My mom sent me this poem template called “I Am From.” I did some more research on it and this poem template is a part of a larger community art project created to gather diverse voices and combat some of the awfulness of our world. The creators, George Ella Lyon and Julie Landsman are planningContinue reading “Community Art Project: I Am From”

PAINT YOUR OWN POTTERY!

This past week, I took my Little to Café Monet. It is a paint your own pottery place in Austin. For those of you who have never experienced the joy of painting your own pottery here is how it works: Pick a piece of pottery. Café Monet has everything from mugs to T-Rex figurines. Choose yourContinue reading “PAINT YOUR OWN POTTERY!”

Doodling

This post is in praise of doodlin’! After all, it’s been my longest standing creative practice, scribbling upon the edges of my notebooks and journals from as far back as I can remember right up to today. Since starting this bog I’ve been doodling less, allowing other more time-consuming art projects to act as outletsContinue reading “Doodling”

Egg Tempera Magic

This past weekend my mom was in town. While she was here we had an egg tempera paint session with my Little Sister (shout out to Big Brothers, Big Sisters!). To have your own egg tempera paint session, you need: Cups/some other container (the number of cups you need depends on the number of colorsContinue reading “Egg Tempera Magic”

I Painted a Shark

Last week it was my neighbor’s kid’s birthday. I used acrylic paints. I also used gel medium to thicken the paint and add a little sheen to it. Pro Tip: Gel medium makes a little paint go a long way. Anyway, this spontaneous, no-pressure art project really helped me to chill out during a week thatContinue reading “I Painted a Shark”

Geometrical Drawings

In last week’s post I shared some cards I’d made. For one of them, I needed to draw a perfect triangle. Well, this girl has carefully avoided anything remotely resembling math as much as possible, so I had to do some research and then pull out my hardly-used compass. The triangle indeed came out perfect,Continue reading “Geometrical Drawings”

Creatures of Paper

If you read my Christmas post, you’ll know that my partner Brian, when tasked with cutting out a paper snowflake, unexpectedly created the below reptilian-shaman-dancing-creature that’s been hanging on our wall long since the snowflakes have been removed. It will probably never be removed, firstly, because I love it so much and secondly, because I’m low-keyContinue reading “Creatures of Paper”

Crochet: The Scarf

Believe it or not, my creative life isn’t just an endless obsession with all things watercolor. Ok, it mainly is, but as an aside, I also make a habit of putzing around with different crochet projects during the winter times. I’d never tried my hand at any textile artform before taking up the hook threeContinue reading “Crochet: The Scarf”