Tag Archives: fear

My Sketchbook Project Is LIVE and Touring!

Posted on July 7, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

My entry into the Sketchbook Project is live online at the Brooklyn Art Gallery! Their scanning leaves a little to be desired (they left out pages and scrunched pages) so I published it again, below. It is touring the country … Continue reading →

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Sketchbook Project: Hope and Fear, 2017

Posted on March 18, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Last year was the first year I participated in the Sketchbook Project, the project out of Brooklyn whereby people from all over the world buy a small sketchbook, fill it, choose to have it imaged or not, and it sits … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, creativity, drawing, ink painting, journal, painting, pen & ink, process, sketchbook, watercolor, writing | Tagged #middleofthenight, #sketchbookproject, #underwater, cuppa joe, Daniel Smith watercolors, fear, Fineline masking fluid, Holbein, Hope, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, Primatek, Sennelier, Sketchbook Project, watercolor | 10 Comments

Sketchbook Project: My Prayer for our Ocean

Posted on January 31, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

Last night I mailed in my submission to the Sketchbook Project, the project out of Brooklyn whereby people from all over the world buy a small sketchbook, fill it, choose to have it imaged or not, and it becomes part … Continue reading →

Sketchbook Project: Underwater, 2018

Posted on January 16, 2018 by dkatiepowellart

I am again participated in the Sketchbook Project, the project out of Brooklyn whereby people from all over the world buy a small sketchbook, fill it, choose to have it imaged or not, and it sits in the museum … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, creativity, journal, memory, painting, pen & ink, process, sketchbook, watercolor, writing | Tagged #holbeinwatercolor, #middleofthenight, #octopus, #polarbear, #politicalaction, #seaurchin, #sketchbookproject, #skinnydipping, #underwater, cuppa joe, Daniel Smith watercolors, fear, Fineline masking fluid, garibaldi, Holbein, Hope, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, polar bear, political art, Primatek, sea urchin, Sennelier, Sketchbook Project, starfish, watercolor | 8 Comments

Sketchbook Project, FEAR

Posted on June 18, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

This year I participated in the Sketchbook Project out of Brooklyn. The idea of being part of hundreds of artists and writers creating books on the topic of Fear or Hope at this time in our country’s history was a … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, history, ink painting, journal, memory, paper, pen & ink, sketchbook | Tagged art journal, fear, Hope, Lamy Joy, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, Pentel Aquash Water Brush, Platinum Carbon pen, prayer, Sketchbook Project, waterbrush, watercolor | 5 Comments

Sketchbook Project: Fear and Hope, Native Born

Posted on April 5, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

This project is a hard one for me… Because of the current state of our government I am feeling like censoring my own art in posting. NEVER have I felt like that. I don’t know if I will finish this Sketchbook … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, journal, pen & ink, watercolor, writing | Tagged #365sketch2017, art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, fear, Hope, Platinum Carbon pen, Sketchbook Project, watercolor | 4 Comments

Sketchbook Project: Fear and Hope, Deportation

Posted on March 3, 2017 by dkatiepowellart

I am participating in the Sketchbook Project this year. This year is that they have assigned topics. You choose FEAR or HOPE. Being a creative type I picked one but am not following it. I am doing Fear AND Hope. … Continue reading →

Posted in art journal, challenge, ink painting, journal, watercolor, writing | Tagged art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, deportation, fear, Guadalupe, Hope, Lexington Grey Noodlers ink, Mexicans, Pentalic HB woodless pencil, Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen, Platinum Carbon pen, Sennelier, Sketchbook Project, Super5 ink, watercolor | 8 Comments

NaSkeFiMo, or Fill Up The Journal and Be Done with It!

Posted on December 2, 2016 by dkatiepowellart

Working to finish up a journal I don’t like. Not because of the paper — Strathmore paper is good paper. The journal is not falling apart (I’ve stuck with THOSE.) No, this is because the Strathmore Journal has a strange … Continue reading →

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Emotional Art: Images as a Dream

Posted on March 7, 2014 by dkatiepowellart

A moonth stretches out in front of me, 1994. My former husband is in South America, screwing a woman he met there on the pretense of traveling with a male friend, my friend too. (No longer my friend too.) The … Continue reading →

Posted in acrylic, art, journal, painting, process, series, writing | Tagged catholicism, childhood hurts, deadbeat dad, dreams, fear, mother, shadow | 3 Comments

My Foray Into Keeping a Watercolor Journal

Posted on February 19, 2014 by dkatiepowellart

I have not used watercolors in 25 years — and when I did, it was in a graphic manner or as an undercoat for colored pencils. But I want to paint more, and need to work my painting into … Continue reading →