I try to make marks each day, in ink or watercolor or acrylic.
When something strikes me as interesting visually or grabs at my heart,
it often ends up in a sketchbook.
The difference is now I share them on a blog.
Sometimes a place or event or cause strikes my fancy. I’ll make a Folding Journal of
that place/event/cause under handmade Folded Journals, below.
My finished journals, when I get time, are under that section below.
I sell originals, prints, and take commissions.
I have a separate page for Challenges!
HANDMADE FOLDED JOURNALS
2018 Centre for Transformative Work Design Competition
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2015 Restore Oregon: Endangered Places 2016
2015 Restore Oregon Celebration Dinner
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2015 Delivering Gothic Sofa Hearst
*gads look at my horrible printing… worked on THAT*
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2014 Cards
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As I finish Art Journals I will list those pages here!
This is not just a collection of watercolors, but a place where I am writing and making marks about our life. Some items are excluded, of course.
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Every Day in May, 2017.
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NaSkeFiMo, or Fill Up The Journal and Be Done with It!
A Strathmore Journal I really did not like… finished!
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Heavenly Journal…
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I participated in the Brooklyn Sketchbook Project, Fear and Hope.
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Hahnemuhle Nostalgie Journal 11/2017
Love this journal, not watercolor paper but can take a lot of water…
Ended in roughly November 2017…
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Hated this journal — pilling paper — but persisted because
I had some drawings I wanted to keep. I finished!
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Hahnemuhle Nostalgie Journal 10/2017
This journal started in Diwali, and continued to just after the New Year.
I anticipated that it would be about light and ritual and women…
There was instead a good deal of unanticipated loss.
I withheld many pages from this public forum
(though I have no problem with friends flipping through my journals)
because I documented the struggle of personal losses and deaths.
My antidote, however, is to paint cheerful things.
That is the story my journal reveals.
Colorful items, beloved memories — a visual gratitude defying the
sadness and craziness of our country and the horror of the stories.
If I didn’t practice gratitude I do not know how I’d make it.
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Lojong and Tonglen Study Journal 1 (WIP)
A Lojong/Tonglen Journal, which I am bringing over
from my other blog, and will add to until I finish.
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Bright Ideas Journal, One (WIP)
I journal of brightly colored pages with
mostly pen and ink drawings with
touches of color, memories, objects and their stories.
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