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I found myself with many 8” x 8” swatches of the august sunshine fabrics.

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As part of my fabric design journey I’ve create new designs for each month. I generally find inspiration in my art work. For August, there was no exception.

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Do you find yourself with with an extra half yard of fabric after using it for a project? I’ve a perfect option. Make a tote, a bag you can grocery shop with!

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The idea of a capsule wardrobe has always intrigued me. I know what you are thinking. Capsule wardrobe. Ugh. I‘m about to show you a boring bunch of separate in some kind of neutral - gray, beige, black. Yawn.

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I can't remember when, but somewhere on the internets I came across the concept of printing ones own designs on fabric. It marinated there for awhile. Until the point I got tired of wearing the same Old Navy swing dresse...

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There is a reason artists procrastinate. Why do we sketches and value studies and fritter away our time watching you tube videos and reading books about other artists. It is to avoid the white canvas. Because until the ...

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During this time of life during the coronavirus, I have been forced to create all my art alone and in my home. I had thought working from home, making art all my myself, that I would continue to follow my usual routine. ...

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Historians will wonder, how did America respond to the pandemic that spread throughout the planet like wild fire in the early months of 2020. There will be discussions, op-eds and entire books devoted to the topic. Some ...

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When making one of my paintings I have developed a process. Whether it is unique or not I cannot say. I suspect it isn't. I do my backgrounds first. They are pre-made from a variety of color combos and a few different va...

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My art class has been postponed for the rest of March due to our current health crisis. While I understood the why I was still left with a Saturday without art. A sacred Saturday with no person to paint. But then I was ...

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What is an art journal? It's anything you want it to be. Above I have an example of some collaging and watercoloring I did in an old sewing manual I found among my mothers things. I love the look of the print behind the ...

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Just about any book on creativity, or any creative person for that matter, will tell you about the inner critic. The inner critic, or censor, is that loud voice that tells a creative person that they suck. It tells them ...

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Like all artists, I have certain motifs I return to. Certain pictures I like to create over and over again. Years ago, when I first purchased a digital camera, one of the first things I photographed was the El train pul...

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I created a logo. In Photoshop Elements 2020. The much vaulted Photoshop. I thought is would take a couple of hours. It took half a day and I'm not completely satisfied. Logos should be clean and graphic and this one is ...

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My Saturday mornings are sacred. That is the time I attend life drawing classes. On these mornings, just like that first evening I picked up a paintbrush, I enter that zone of grace called making art. For three hours, mo...

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This year, I have returned to creating monthly gratitude journals. Some might call it a junk journal. I start with sheet of card stock and few sheets of assorted papers. I fold and trim the papers to fit. Then paste a mo...

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While I may not have considered myself an artist until my fifties, I have always been crafty.

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It had been an awful day sometime in March, 2014. I can't remember the details. I do remember it had not been the first day that sucked. Worked sucked. My relationship sucked. Everything sucked. And, to make matters even...

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Recently I took a Sunday morning watercolor class at https://www.thefarmatsouthmountain.com/ through https://phoenixcenterforthearts.org/ . A lovely place, BTW.

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I know, I know. You were expecting a blog post about art seeing that is what I have setup here. But while art is my passion, my career is in information technology. Currently, I am a PeopleSoft consulting specializing in...

","url":"https://planet-penny.com/f/from-cobol-to-ruby-on-rails---my-long-strange-trip","title":"From Cobol to Ruby on Rails - My Long Strange Trip","summary":"I know, I know. You were expecting a blog post about art seeing that is what I have setup here. But while art is my passion, my career is in information technology. Currently, I am a PeopleSoft consulting specializing in...","date_modified":"2020-02-03T19:55:11Z"}]}