New laptop, new energy

I have been remiss about blogging on here. Mainly because everything is not yet up and running, and I have altogether too many interests! Always another shiny thing to distract my corvid brain.

This week I will be moving data from the old dinosaur laptop ( that I, more than once, longed to hurl into the harbour.) to a new, sleek, quicker one. Giving brachiasaurus the boot and moving along.

Last month I was thoroughly immersed in Poetry Month.

During the worst of Covid lockdown, I had discovered another visual artist on Tiktok, Scott Geraci, who lives in Florida. Apart from doing interesting drawings of trees, he decided to read aloud a poem each day of April. Then he decided to take requests. I requested “Love after love “, by Derek Walcott. It was a great reading, so I wanted to do something for Poetry Month, as well.

If you're interested in having some poetry prompts, I set up a group page on Facebook called “Poetry Rising “. I can invite you into the group. I plan on keeping the group page open indefinitely for talk about poetry, video clips of people reading favorite poems, a place to talk about writing in general, etc.There are 30 prompts for your use to wwrite your own poems. I managed to use 21 of them. If you find just one that sparks the muse, that's cool.

On the creative side, I am working on finishing a piece that I started last fall. That would be the deer, a bit further down. I’ve been focused this last week on getting my studio space back to being not only useful, but efficient.

I also have a song that I hope to “bring across the finish line” ( ie: record and release) by early June. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

For right now, this is my life. Kinda artsy. Kinda fun.

Oh, and I have some seedlings coming along, too.And a cherry tree in full bloom when I look outside.

Life is sweet. 🥰

First blog on the new site

I've been wandering around the website space, trying to decipher how it works. I’m learning. It isn't quite what I expected, but I’ll get more comfy soon.

Having my artwork online and for sale again is exciting. I've been enjoying working in a square format with the 10"x10” small format, but I like rectangular format as well and somewhat larger. I’ll be having a wider variety of art cards printed soon, and possibly a line of stickers. Stickers are just fun.

I now have two songs out wherever you listen. “Peace” (a capella and djembe) and a much more full-out version of “Last Sweet Love Song “, featuring Mandolin Kahn. (My mandolin!) I’m enjoying my songwriting journey. I have a fabulous instructor who knows how to bring out the best in people and in their songs. And I now have a very supportive singing instructor.

I’ll be up to some new artwork, as well.

For now, though, sleep.