hello!  welcome to my week.  

i post here on my blog on friday and 

for those of you on instagram, 

i post my art there daily.  

thank you for visiting!

there is an upcoming art show for local artissts.

seeing the flyer inspired me to start painting teabags again.

i was going to enter my painted teabags last year but was 

bogged down with work and could not.  i am happy to get the opportunity

again to submit my art.  i like that this is community based

and is connected with the library.  as a child i loved to read

and my love continues to this day.  now i both listed to books 

on tape and read books.  i am sad that  many of the  children today

have so many other distractions that they have  have not discovered reading.  

this week i joined kelly kilmer's journaling workshop.

these are some of the pages i created.  kelly first taught me

to make my own journals, alter books and collage using paint. 

her workshops are lively and lots of fun.  i often meet up with

other artists i have not seen in a while.  

i also finished the background on this expressive portrait that was started

in a private lesson with jenny doh at studio crescendoh.

i didn't think i did much this week, art wise but now that 

i documented  my activities, i see there is a lot!  no wonder

i am feeling tired today!  i admire my friends john arbuckle and 

jacki long who posts daily.  their links are on the side bar.  but i

know myself.  i would not be able to maintain the pace.  for a long

time i subtly berated myself about it but now i embrace our differences,

without putting myself down.  it's much easier that way!

have a lovely week!

posting with eva, kristen and friends at

paint party friday, a weekly art collective