LOVE India ink sketches and water colour ...

Designing w/ fabric ...

Pottery ...

Collaging various natural materials ...

Candle making ...

Decoupages ...

Murals ...

Bead work ...

Creative cooking ...

Creative writing and poetry ...

Singing ...

So much more to list ...

Never met an artistic medium that I didn't like, couldn't wield ...

Art is the drug of choice ...

Sing it, sister!

Charcoal. Minimalism, showing the subject without color.

Charcoal. Minimalism, showing the subject without color.

I'm not much of an artist, although I've done some comic strip work.

Nowadays, all I do is write books.

Have ya ever tried batik? It's a wax-resist dyeing technique used on textile. Won a blue ribbon & gold key for a pillow I batiked & sewed in high school. Would like to dabble in it again someday.

Have also worked with polymer clay, pen & ink, fabrics, acrylics on wood, canvas and fabrics.

My cameras have been my tool of choice for the last 30 yrs. or so. Guess you can say photography is my passion.

I do love looking at the artwork on these threads. I am so impressed with the skills and creativity.

Words are my thing but give me finger paints or body paints and i can make things pleasing to the eye with random colors

I also enjoy spirograph designs as the patterns are endless


Nice work to you both!!!

Anyone do junk art?? I want to learn to weld.

I love to do 'trash to treasure' projects too...like this antique 5 panel door that I turned into a headboard a few years ago.



Added a little trim molding to make a small shelf on top.

Shutterbug,

That is so cool. You are creative! It looks great too.

YES! yes yes yes it counts art is more a feeling than an activity one way or another its pictures isnt it? pictures and emotions, i could draw you a picture and you can visualy analyze it or you can write me a beautiful poem and let the pictures create themselves in my mind see? i have an uncle who uses mainly spray paints and brushes, an aunt who can sketch her arm of, a grandmother who paints nature scenes and animals, an aunt who uses charcoal to create images to along with her poetry all of these different methods make up peices of art maybe its just a hobbie maybe you are dedicated to your work but your definitly creating art dont doubt that, i know im ranting but its just so important to me idk

i think i love you...haha j/k thats amazing though that you can be so artistically talented thats a great quality so much imagination do you have a fav i wonder?

ya know its like i said in another reply drawing acctual pictures or not and this is just my opinion, but it sounds to me like you never stopped being an artist you still put images in peoples heads inspiring more art in other forms to flow from their hands as well as yours what do you write?

I wish I had a photo of some of my folks art to put up. My mom did one with acrylic, rope, sand and who knows what else that hangs in my living room. She did another with sand and acrylic of one of Frank Lloyd Wrights buildings that I also keep hung in my house. Both project from the canvas and they're my favorite paintings by my mom. My dad did sculpture a lot and I have a few "pre-columbian artifacts"...circa 1970 that my crazy ole dad did. I like things with 3 dimensions and some texture.

That is very nice. My partner and I build furnitire and just invested in a panel cutter to do those floating panels with. We've done some chests from walnut and mahagony that turned out nice.

I am impressed. The teddy bears freak me out a bit though.

Can you say random

if you leave your brushes to harden, and your clay to dry, your pencils to roll away under old furniture you have.....commited murder. A suicidal heart which doesnt feel the same love of the arts. Even hearts can be mended though....Inspiration and
imagination are the bandages used to heal the wounds causing pain in the minds of artists who throw away their gifts. Sometimes a waiting period is the best medicine after all though. Artistic purgatory. If your thinkin of turning a deaf ear toward your screaming heart, your heart trying so so hard to inspire you....think again, create again. dont lose the things god gave you and if you dont beleive that god gave you these gifts dont waste the gifts your family passed to you within your blood. it doesnt matter who gave you the gift what matters is wether or not your going to use it. USE IT. you have an ability not everyone has, you can inspire others. you make others laugh cry smile frown confuse them make them think. give them a memory that they thought they had lost, give them something to remember. wether its a few poetic phrases or a few well placed brush strokes, you have the ability to move people. In some cases bring people together.


maybe im too random, maybe im crazy.....maybe im not right....maybe i dont know what im talking about but im still an artist....i still create...

ill never stop.

I still have rolls upon rolls of canvas, frames and frame making stuff, easels, palletes, hundreds of tubes of oils and acrylics, brushes that you just can't get anymore, palette knives, clay modeling tools, charcoals, stained glass & lead, silk, textile ink and film for silk screening, and so much more that my folks had when they died. Lots of stuff I'm not sure what it is. Jars with blue and red powders, dfferent oils, etc. (My dad made his own paint on one of his tangents..lol) I should do something with them but I'm no artist. They just sit in my storage room.

I kinda hate to prt with it but don't like the idea of it going to waste. Maybe I'll go down to artbreak on the river and find some starving artist to give that stuff to. Or trade them for a portrait that actually makes ME look good.

(Yeah I know, but it COULD happen!!!)

Donation isnt a bad idea at all really i would love to have all of that at my fingertips might end up making someon young artist very happy

I have plenty of photos printed but no working scanner here. I'll take some more. Gotta include my homemade 3-axis router though. To me, thats art.