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Charcoal used to be my medium of choice but these past years I’ve been shifting my preference to acrylic paints. I think it maybe a need for more color in life. Things are quite worrisome and grim nowadays. I’m constantly finding the balance between staying knowledgeable and not feeling overwhelmed emotionally about

the current state of the world. We can all use a bit more color, more things that brighten our day even for a small time. I wish you all peace and release.

So, this is tied to the painting with the black paint all over it for "Express Your Feelings." I'd planned to do something based on Carl Sandburg's Fog Poem (it creeps in on little cat feet) or Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening or I Took the Road Not Traveled By (which for some reason, I thought those were all one poem until I doublechecked. Want to do stuff with all 3 at some point - BUT, all of the sudden, Maya Angelou's poem that she read at O'Bama's election (when many of us were joyous and hopeful) "And Still We Rise" dropped into my head, so I had to do something with this after all. Tried to wash off as much of the black paint as possible, so some of the original would still shine through (as in hope, not giving up, etc.). I …

Wow, so many ideas I had for this one, but what I'm submitting came by, by accident. This was actually a painting I'd done a few years ago when Peyton invited people to create something in honor or Pride Month, with the theme "Love Wins," (I think that was the theme) to be exhibited at Jen's wonderful McCrae's Sustainable Goods store in Marblehead. I had many ideas of what I wanted to do for that, none of them ended up the way I wanted them to, including this one, so I ended up putting in something else. So, I decided I wanted to reuse this canvas and was spreading black paint on it to create a black background for what I had in mind. Then when I looked at the paint all over it, I thought - um, that's kind of how some of us are feeling right n…

Magic Under the Sea

I've been playing with a series of these, using acrylic paint, stencils, some glitter glue and glitter paint. I tend to do a bunch of these at the same time, in an effort to use up paint, since it won't keep. This is the first of one of them.

Still trying to dip my toe (or fingers) into using some of the gorgeous pastels I bought a few years ago after taking some workshops. I have a photo of a gorgeous mussel shell in just the right light, so I used that as the model. Pastels on pastel paper, with a tad of glitter paint or glitter something in the sand part.

I did this intuitive painting with acrylic, using some stencils, a bit of glitter, and acrylic paint, while listening to a favorite HOPEFUL Beatles song, "Imagine." It's a favorite of mine so far, considering I had nothing in mind when I began.

I took this photo of the kitchen table where I do a lot of my non-paint projects.

Plates were too hard for me to cut so my husband helped me cut. The design on the plates are perfect for my mosaic to commemorate my trip to South Africa and Zimbabwe.

This is a discarded display tower of some sort from the Clark School next door where Big Blue Bargains is relocating (in Swampscott). It was lying on its side in the snow and sun, and the light falling on it made it look so pretty, I had to take a photo.