So, my impulse was to start this blog with a long-winded rant on why I generally think Valentine’s Day is a consumer-holiday-of-the-worst-sort, all “buy me diamonds” and “Disney-taught-me-everything-I-need-to-know-about-healthy-adult-relationships” malarkey. But I think that sentence will do… And given that every holiday is really just what you make of it, this year I decided to makeContinue reading “Handmade Valentines”
Category Archives: Projects
Progress Report: Sonatine
So, I have been working on this piece for the past few weeks. You can read about and hear my humble beginnings here. I am able to play about 2/3 of the piece. I am using the word “play” VERY loosely. Basically, I am still trying to figure out what to do with my fingers.Continue reading “Progress Report: Sonatine”
Cross-stitching Magic
Someone in my family (don’t remember who) first taught me to to cross-stitch sometime in elementary school. Since then, cross-stitching has been a consistent presence in my life. The years have been full of cross-stitch projects started (and never finished) at my grandma’s house, sewing classes that always seem to start with a cross-stitch project,Continue reading “Cross-stitching Magic”
Watercolor + Indian Ink
Last week I played around with Indian ink washes, and this week I painted over them, using watercolors to bring out the images I saw in the chaotic, grainy textures. This project was magical and weird, and forced my critical mind to take a backseat and let my imagination drive me right into a worldContinue reading “Watercolor + Indian Ink”
Indian Ink Washes
There’s a chaos to watercolor that I love, an element of surprise every time that water and paint meet on paper. In past blogs I’ve experimented with different materials to increase the strange effects one can get in this fluid medium, but this week I’ve found a new favorite addition: Indian ink. The amazing watercolorContinue reading “Indian Ink Washes”
New Year, New Piece
Because I was working on my Christmas album for the last couple months of 2017, I haven’t learned any new “real” piano pieces in a long time. The last piece I learned was Chopin’s Prelude in A Major (listen), and that was months ago. SO! I am now back on the classical music/official piano repertoireContinue reading “New Year, New Piece”
Since I’ve been GOOOOOOOOONE! Pt. I
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I AM BACK! I did a lot of creating during my blogging hiatus! Over the next few weeks I will show you all what I got into the last few months of 2017! It was LIT! Or, at least lit adjacent . . . First things first! My major project overContinue reading “Since I’ve been GOOOOOOOOONE! Pt. I”
Under Water: Community Art Project
Below you will find the creations we received for our inaugural Community Art Project! Projects are shown in the order we received them to ensure absolute 100% unbiased presenting, so congratulations to Mike for being our earliest contributor and thus getting the not-previously-coveted-but-perhaps-now-coveted cover spot on the front page. We loved seeing how each ofContinue reading “Under Water: Community Art Project”
Sketchbook Update: September
If you’re new to the site, allow me to explain: I’m learning to draw. These last two months I’ve made an effort to sketch daily, and while some days (ok, even a week here and there) I’ve failed at that commitment, I have been steadily drawing throughout these last two months (you can find my AugustContinue reading “Sketchbook Update: September”
Join October’s Community Art Project!
Eager for an opportunity to create?! Well, here’s a golden opportunity! Send us anything you create based on the theme below and on November 3rd we’ll post the artwork we receive! The Theme: Under Water (view this more as a springboard, not a destination) What You Need: Creativity What You DON’T Need: A certain skill levelContinue reading “Join October’s Community Art Project!”
Compulsive Creation 