Category Archives: Art

Riding the Wave of Busy

Posted on March 17, 2024 by silvergrrl

For a retired person, I am astonishingly busy these days. My class at USC this spring is photography (for the non-art major) and I am learning cool things about how use my Nikon D5300 DSLR camera that I bought last … Continue reading →

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The Summer of Art2Life

Posted on June 17, 2023 by silvergrrl

I’ve written before about how my life has been shifting since my mother died, four and a half years ago now. I’m happy to tell you that I’ve continued down the path of deep change. I never know how things … Continue reading →

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A Blue Ribbon Month

Posted on October 25, 2022 by silvergrrl

October has been a crazy kind of month. Both the South Carolina State Fair and the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF) occur in October, and as in past years I was involved with both. For the SC State Fair, I … Continue reading →

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Paper Models

Posted on August 7, 2022 by silvergrrl

I feel like I am moving in spirals these days: circling back around but learning and applying new skills as I go. Currently my major art focus is on working my way through the projects in Making Handmade Books by … Continue reading →

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Burn, Baby, Burn

Posted on June 19, 2022 by silvergrrl

I’m making a real effort now to get back into doing art every morning. I still love encaustic painting, and I’ve gotten a book now on doing mixed media with encaustic. We had touched a little on this in my … Continue reading →

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My New Love – Encaustic Painting

Posted on May 17, 2022 by silvergrrl

I just got back from another wonderful class at John C. Campbell Folk School – this time it was encaustic painting. Now, I am not a painter, per se. My only 2D art endeavors are collage and making my own … Continue reading →

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Two Hours a Day – Who Knew?

Posted on January 6, 2022 by silvergrrl

My new schedule of “no electronics in the morning, 2-3 hours making art first thing” is successful beyond anything I expected! By having this time every day, I am able to give myself permission to do just so much, then … Continue reading →

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Paper Arts in the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2022 by silvergrrl

Happy New Year, everyone! In this new year, I am focusing on how to spend the right amount of time making art every day. Too little, and I feel like I’ve missed out as time whips by. Too much, and … Continue reading →

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Ending Another Year

Posted on December 5, 2021 by silvergrrl

They just fly by so quickly, don’t they? It’s been 6 months already since my surgery that I talked about in my last post. I have healed well, although I still have pretty gnarly-looking incisions. Apparently it will be another … Continue reading →

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The Years of Lightening Up

Posted on April 8, 2021 by silvergrrl

Some of you will remember that my mother died just over two years ago, and that has prompted a huge evaluation of my life and honoring of my own mortality. If I have (with luck) a third of my life … Continue reading →

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