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Taxes, Losing Your Grounding
I started my taxes two days before the Full Moon. It took waaaaaay longer than I thought, because I was determined to find every last little deduction. I am so tired of being screwed by the feds. On the Full … Continue reading
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Al Noor Mosque
Artists around the world are showing solidarity with the New Zealand Mosques. I see this as a prayer that the USA will choose sanity. Understand I grew up with guns, have nothing against them… But this is plain stupid… the … Continue reading
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Tagged #alnoormosque, #artjournal, #artjournaling, #crescentmoon, #Hahnemühle, #labellaluna, #middleofthenight, #nostalgiejournal, #nzsolidaritysketch, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #robertosterink, art journal, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal
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Full Moon Setting
Cropping the images was a bit like how it was to experience the moon setting. I saw more and more through the window. And then it was right there and so bright. Ink painting, Robert Oster (Bronze, Thunderstorm, and Orange) … Continue reading
Akkerman all the way from THE Hague!
Yes, they call it “THE Hague”… who knew? I did a favor for a friend and she sent me a thank-you gift. A totally cool and beautiful thank-you gift with some silly surprises in it. I swear to goddess it … Continue reading
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Tagged #akkermanink, #artjournal, #artjournaling, #delftblue, #Hahnemühle, #jinhaoshark, #middleofthenight, #moonmandippen, #nostalgiejournal, art journal, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal
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Killing Winter with Orange
I had the very nicest favor done to me — A friend sent me the TWSBI I’ve wanted the most! ORANGE! Not sold in the USA!!!! Nice that the Japanese postal service color coordinated their package with my pen! I … Continue reading
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Got the Blues!
This is the post where I bore you guys with my musings on my new passion for blue inks. I’ve developed a passion for blue inks. *I am laying the blame on Robert Oster for the many $$$ I’ve spent … Continue reading
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Tagged #akkermanink, #birminghaminks, #blueink, #bluevelvet, #boilersteam, #deatramentisdocumentink, #diamineink, #robertosterink, #super5atlanticink, #super5ink, #thunderstorm, De Atramentis Document ink, Super5 ink
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Sharing a Carousel Event!
Carousel horses have always delighted, even in the midst of virtual games and E-ticket rides; most of us don’t stop and look at them, but are seduced by the music and the action and the lights. I started a group … Continue reading
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Tagged #carouselhorses, #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühleWatercolourBook, #jantzenbeachcarousel, #parkercarousel, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #stargazer, #watercolorjournal, art journal, carousel, Daniel Smith watercolors, horses, Jantzen Beach Carousel, Platinum Carbon pen
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Mom’s Vase
Ink painting. Robert Oster’s beautiful blue-grey ink! Pretty cool pen, the Jinhao Dragon, fitted with a Goulet 1.1 stub nib. To hear about classes, follow me on Facebook or check out my new, improved dkatiepowellart.com “Memory is more indelible than … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #crystalvase, #grayseas, #greyseas, #jinhaowithgouletnib, #middleofthenight, #momsstuff, #nostalgiejournal, #robertosterink, art journal, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal
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Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash. That lone figure is a spiritual friend of mine… same teachers. She did what I will never do (broken body here) which is to trek to this amazing space. I’ve had this image on my wall for many … Continue reading
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Cat Squares, 5
Mousies are one of their three favorite toys. It is the tail. 7. LEOPARD MOUSE Leopard is silent. Leopard is stealthy. Leopard can be flipped in the air by his tail. HE FLIES! When Leopard flies he does somersaults. This … Continue reading
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Tagged #cattoy, #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühleDSSketchbook, #ilovemycats, #Lamy, #madeyoulook, #middleofthenight, #mousiewhatilovetoeat, art journal, cat toy, cats, De Atramentis Document ink, Hahnemühle D & S Sketchbook, Lamy Joy, Platinum Carbon pen, watercolor
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Nostalige Journal 11-2018
I forgot to publish my entire journal from the end of last year… What a period! Lotta writing… Less watercolor (no time) but more ink painting. To hear about classes, follow me on Facebook or check out my new, improved … Continue reading
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Thimbles
On the night when the full moon was supposed to be invoking the ancestors (this is astrologically), I found myself drawing all my grandmother’s thimbles going back four generations. My mother gifted them to me, so though she doesn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #birminghaminks, #Hahnemühle, #lovethestub, #middleofthenight, #nostalgiejournal, #PilotMetropolitan, #slaggrey, #slowstitching, #thimbles, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen
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USk: Valentine’s At HEM23
Following on the discussion I was having about how other creatives shape our art, recently an urban sketcher was reiterating how it is not right to ink at the location and add colors later… the colors are not true from … Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day
Okay so I had my Diplomat Aero red magical i-think-it-can-fly and it-looks-like-a-dirigible pen the day before Valentine’s Day — So I could record everything in advance! Mitchell had to listen to me the 13th gushing about my pen, kvetching about … Continue reading
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TWSBI Eco
A story about how other creatives shape you… push you… remind you! I’ve fallen in love with TWSBI’s and draw them a lot. They are architectural, like little buildings, and you can see all the ways they work which is … Continue reading
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Tagged #demonstratorpens, #fountainpen, #fountainpengeeks, #Hahnemühle, #MGrahamwatercolors, #middleofthenight, #nemosineink, #nostalgiejournal, #robertosterink, #twsbieco, #twsbilove, art journal, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, TWSBI, TWSBI ECO 1.1stub
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Nataraj
Nataraj and a whole lotta crazy journaling. My mojo went missing. Nataraj danced it back into my fingers! Killing winter with orange! “In order to be brave we must trust that underneath it all there is sanity and openness.” Sakyong … Continue reading
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zenkatwrites: Family
I cry all the time watching Blue Bloods… I cry at the Reagan Family. I want a little of what they’ve got. Tonight when it ended I thought about how my family was so very “fuck-ed-up-ed” *channeling my baby brother … Continue reading
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