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Half Moon
Waking to a half moon so bright it was like a full moon! Cat cuddles followed when they saw I was awake. Robert Oster Graphite ink does all that color… To hear about classes, follow me on Facebook or check … Continue reading
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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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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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SoCS: Celestial
I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art! You can … Continue reading
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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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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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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SoCS: Critical
I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art! You can … Continue reading
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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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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SoCS: Yawn
I journal and do morning stream of consciousness exercises, and I’m again participating in Linda Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday. I write to a timer, 15-20 minutes, no editing except spelling, and of course I add my art! You can … Continue reading
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
zenkatwrites: Why Sketch?
There are a few artists I follow because I love their work or their passion. A few because I love them, or love what they say about art. One because I can’t quite figure out why she has a huge … Continue reading
Sorting out this blog transfer!
Note about merging my blogs… My art followers might not want to read my writing… My art followers might not want to read my recipes… In an effort to give a head’s up I am going to start my posts … Continue reading
