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Being in the kitchen together can be a challenge for us. Craig does all the cooking, often on his own. However, sometimes, I give directions like he's my arms and "legs" and that's where things can get challenging. Craig is a laid back fellow and I am a freak for not overcooking supper and that means timing is everything. I am guessing it's so critical for me because supper is my main only meal of the day.
Today world's collide as we not only share our daily life ( Walking Way Overrated ) cook burgers but I get to share and review the swatches from my handmade interference pigments from Let's Resin. That's the other world (HeArtfully Creating ). Join us...
Yay! We are finally have some much anticipated warm summer weather. We have been behind where we live in Ontario Canada. Even people's gardens were held back at least 2-3 weeks or more due to really cold days and evenings. In our neck of the woods summer is not very long so it is disappointing when the weather isn't as warm. I love the hot days, even to the point of having to run back inside because I can feel my skin cooking!
Today our Worlds Collide because this short vlog video combines both blogs, Walking Way Overrated (Our Life Blog/vlog) and my creativity blog/vlog Heartfully Creating. Craig wanted to show what we did when our key ingredient for supper broke. And I wanted to share some samples of todays watercolour learning. I spent most of the day watching/listening to Watercolour (In Canada we use the letter "u" with the "O" in words like "colour.")
Worlds Collide Part 1: Watch Below
Worlds Collide Part 2: Watch Below
Two Artist Channel Recommendations One of my favourite artist tutorial YouTube channels is Kristy Rice's and second best so far is Jenna Rainey. It's because of Kristy first of all, why I am even discussing this topic right now. She helps me to let go of all the watercolour rules I learned over 30 years ago (and why I refused to pursue that medium.) Kristy is the reason why I have now been collecting new palettes, paper and watercolour paints! She uses white watercolour paint! I had learned that was a no no. She loves using colour boldly like I do. Bold colours are not something one thinks of when one (I) think of traditional watercolour painting. I really like how fun and inspiring she is. So check her out here. I also ordered her custom brush set. Don't tell Craig, it's a surprise. He is trying to learn more too about watercolour techniques.
And Jenna Rainey is so far in my opinion, has a good sense of humour and is more traditional regarding the use of watercolour techniques. As well she has very detailed, well explained tutorials like the drawing flower lessons mentioned in my video today. It is very challenging for my way of learning. It feels almost like doing math. I am use to just drawing what I know or see but do not follow any formulas for how to draw something. Which means I may have created some large paintings, drawings and illustrations for cookbooks over the decades, but I'm not that great at how they end up. But I love creating so I try not to worry about tht. Watching Jenna's YouTube channel, is more challenging for my brain and how it works. When I say following her specific directions on how to draw the flowers for example, it literally taxes my brain. Nothing to do with her teaching, it's totally because of how I am used to learning. I have always been terrible at following very specific instructions, it's like brain overload for me. The fact that I was diagnosed with ADHD about 11 years ago, helps confirm why I feel that way. Which helps me to understand that I just learn differently it doesn't mean I can't learn. Which can be applied to all of us. We all learn differently.
Today I did get tempted to just give up and continue creating or drawing the way I normally do. But because, I like the results and and I would like to create a more realistic version of a subject like flowers. I'm going to try not to give up. So in this extremely short video clip, you can see a little bit about what I was trying to learn from her.
A Divided Brain Our brain is divided into two hemispheres the left and the right. The left side is responsible for things like logic and math and the right side is more about where are the creative part comes from and I believe also is where our emotions and feelings emanate from. Women apparently tend to use more of a balance of the left and right brain and men tend to be more left brain driven. Which is why a lot of them are really good at math and logic not super great at expressing feelings and emotion and why the majority of women tend to be very emotional and expressive, and often more able to multitask. This does not mean we cannot learn to use both sides of our brain. It does mean for myself, I am definitely far far away from even trying to learn mathematics. My brain definitely is not balaing it's function between the two hemispheres. We are all wired uniquely. So no matter how your brain functions, you may benefit from teachers using various methods of teaching. What matters most when it comes to art, in my opinion, is that you love making it. So if you want to challenge yourself and learn from others, that's great I highly recommend these two artists for different reasons. If you just want to do your own thing and be self taught like I was for most of my life, that's great too. Personally, I do love the age of the Internet because learning now has become so easy since so many people can share what they know. Some people are great at teaching and some may not be. It all depends on their students and how they learn best to make that determination.
I hope you find inspiration to create however you would like and at the same time find ways to challenge yourself to possibly learn new things and new ways to execute your creative adventures. A really great thing about Kristy Rice is she really focusses on the joy of watercolour and creating with it. Her excitement and enthusiasm is very contagious and is why I am here writing about watercolour and creating with it. If I could learn something new at 56 years old, anyone can.
Welcome guys. Couldn't wait to share this long awaited custom art gift project. Watch the short show off video as I got to see things sparkle in the summer sun.
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Here are the links to some of the materials I Used:
So we accepted that it was not going to work and we're able to give it away to someone who said they had a friend who could fix it. Tell them they could have it. It wasn't worth trying to find a part and repaired since it looked too complicated for us to manage. No I've been kind of enjoying the challenge of watching TV we need screens like the one you'll see in this video. We definitely have a lot of screens to look at it's just none of them are close to 55 inches. As we look into the open white space we now have because this big black wall is gone, things feel hopeful and better. Craig and I realize we didn't know what we were thinking getting such a mammoth television for such a small space. Maybe we were trying to avoid going to the movie theater. Come to think of it Covid happened a few months after we purchased it. Hmmm...
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It's time to move on, it's time to get going... Tom Petty's song is when I like to play whenever it's time to move on, it's time to get going. That's what I decided had to happen with my old power wheelchair. A couple of big changes in the last few days. I had kept my power wheelchair that was almost 18-19 years old, just in case my new one broke down again. If you look back at these blogs and videos you'll see that I had some issues getting my new chair set up. In fact they had to replace that wheelchair entirely within the first six months because the first one was a lemon. Having a lemon for a wheelchair doesn't work well and doesn't exactly instill trust to the point that you want to get rid of your really old but still working wheelchair. So finally, as I look at that big clunker sitting in our living room piled up with stuff, I felt it was safe to finally see if there was someone else who could use it. Thank you God a home was found fairly quickly. Now we have another big space. Spaces are good because then I get to fill it up with something. Just praying and hoping my no four year old wheelchair continues working.
Art Supply Heaven
Worlds are colliding in this blog because not only are we dealing with the television issue, I was happily distracted swatching out new metallic watercolour paints and continuing to set up my new watercolour palette as my art supplies from Currys art supply shop in southern Ontario arrive.
Watercolour traditions out the window, but only if you want to.
Happy art making folks. Hope you are all having a great beginning to what is about to be the month of June already! As mentioned in previous blogs, vlogs and videos, I have been investing in some water colour painting supplies. After excepting that painting large scale acrylic paintings, I was only going to focus on learning digital paintings and drawings on my iPad using procreate and the Apple Ipencil. But as mentioned in a previous video I was inspired by a perky young artist name Kristy Rice. It really helped to hear her encouragement and she also teaches in a way I had not experienced before. Ever since I took that Coollege Night class with my dear Dad over 30 years ago,
I had learned a lot at that night school college class. It was in the very traditional watercolour painting methods. Such as never, ever, ever use white water colour paint. You are to allow the white of the page to show through. That is what your white is with traditional watercolour painting rules. I did used to paint using gouache, because I had felt that it's opacity made it acceptable. This was before I took acrylic painting more seriously. Taking that watercolour class with my dad was a wonderful thing to do with him. And I made a couple cool paintings but, I actually found it intimidating and not impressed by the lack of colour that I need in my artwork. So I would defeat the purpose of the whole watercolour method. Being a heavy-handed artist for me means that I do not use a lot of water in watercolour paintings and I use a lot more paint so the images are brighter more colorful. So pretty quickly I worked mostly in coloured pencils when I couldn't use an easel and then acrylic painting once I had an easel that my dear Dad made for me.
(I believe God inspired this idea during one of my university art classes: I was asked by an art professor how I could draw or paint on a flat surface. Some thing I had grown up doing my whole life. I never ever thought of drawing or painting on an easel. She pointed out that when it image or a picture plane is up in front of your face you can see the perspective and proportion more accurately. Because of my neuromuscular disorder spinal muscular atrophy type three, I just did not have the strength to lift my arm up holding a paintbrush to a canvas. Then one day that eureka moment came! And I do believe it was from God. I got the idea to rest my elbow upper arm area on my desk edge. And then to lean my canvas against the back of the chair that goes with the desk. I'll come with my own chair anyway, ha ha because I use a wheelchair. And then it worked perfectly, I was able to paint using an easel for the very first time in my life. And this was later in life. I had been making art ever since I could basically hold a pencil. I will explain more in a future blog video about why I couldn't go to university to take art right out of high school. Let's just say I was able to enrol in my late 20s! )
I was working on building up a new pallet of higher quality watercolour paints and thought you might like to see what that look like so far.
Watch The short Video Below
The most exciting thing about being able to mix watercolour pigments is you can create your own colours and still let them harden or dry out in a little half pan or full pen, components. I must say I am slowly learning the benefits of watercolor. That I will be able to go outside and paint without worrying about the paint drying too fast. Acrylic paint requires having a spray
bottle of water with you at all times. Working outside is basically impossible because if it gets the wind happens, it will dry faster. And watercolour just like its counterpart gouache, can be reconstituted or rewetted every time you want to use it. It lasts for a very long time. And since I wasn't able to do tiny work when I used acrylic. If you've seen some of my personal art history videos, you'll notice that the paintings aren't exactly small. However, using watercolour I have discovered that as long as the brushes are tiny enough, I am feeling more comfortable about working on a smaller scale. Before this the thought of working or painting in small-scale would intimidate the heck out of me.
Colour mixing 101
I believe I did learn this most beneficial information when I did take that watercolour class. If it wasn't then, I know it was a long time ago. That you do not have to buy every mixed paint colour there is. If you were starting out as an artist or dabbling in it because you're curious about becoming an artist. Or you're just someone wanting to have fun with art making materials like paint and don't have a lot of money, this will help you like it help me. There are three colours in the world that cannot be manufactured, meaning by mixing certain other pigments or colours together. The best example that modern folks might find easier is looking at your printer ink cartridges. Did you ever wonder why just three colours yellow magenta and cyan blue along with a black, can print anything in any colour you want? It is because those three colours yellow red or in the case of magenta it's a cool red, and the yellow is a cool yellow, and the cyan is a cool blue. When layered or mixed as they are in paint. That's resulting in the creation of secondary colors. If the first three are called primary colors, meaning single or one, then taking one primary and another primary and mixing them means to or secondary colors. Making your own colour wheel may really help lay this out in your mind. No again I learned this a long time ago, and this next part I learned then too. At first I was excited and thought yeah, I can just make whatever colour I want and I will get the results in an inexpensive way. However, the main blue I had was called ultramarine blue, and yellow was lemon yellow and a cadmium yellow (a warm yellow) and an alizarin crimson and most likely a cadmium red middle or cad red deep. When I started mixing the pairs that would make the secondary colors. I was very disappointed that ultramarine blue and a warm yellow made a very dull green. And alizarin crimson and a warm yellow again didn't quite make the orange I was thinking of, ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson made it dark purple. But none of that secondary colours were that impressive. Thankfully I experimented with the other kinds of blues yellows and reds that I had. Turns out the kind of secondaries you get depend on the type of primaries you use. Just like your printer ink, are those three colours always plus black (which technically in the art world is not a colour it is absence of light and white is all light at once- hopefully I've explained that correctly) Black and white are used to tone down or lighten a hue.
So I discovered to get nice bright colours I had to use more cool colors. If you're asking what are cool and warm colors? I'm gonna let you think about that as you look around the world and that artwork. Think about it even as you use your art supplies if you have any. What colours feel cool and wet colours feel warm.'
In the future I hope to elaborate more regarding colour theory and about colours that are manufactured through using synthetic pigments. In the history of painting, we know as early back as cave paintings, that the images found in there are often made out of things called yellow or red ochre or iron oxide. Those are pigments ground up into a fine powder and a binder possibly egg yolks and water, and then creating early paints.
And to get brilliant colours like lapis lazuli which is a gemstone, it would be ground and ground into a very very fine powdered pigment. These kind of pigments still exist. There's lots of videos on YouTube you can find about people making their own natural pigments. But I want to talk more about creating the colours that make you happy. For me personally that means creating mega bright colours.
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I name these particular vlogs Worlds Collide because we have more than one vlog/blog. So when the subject matter covers our life and creativity or our faith in Jesus, worlds essentially collide! Makes sense to me anyway. Walking Way Overrated is our life vlog/blog And Heartfully Creating is my creativity and Sure Hope Gazette is our Christianity Blog/Vlog
Hi guys. Welcome to Part 4 of My Personal Art History. Today I want to share the Handmade Jewelry period of my life. It was not planned at all, a total impulsive decision after I had given a little friend a pair of clip on earrings that were broken. So I thought I could find a replacement pair or parts to fix it. Instead, I ended up telling Craig an hour or two later that I was going to start making jewelry and selling it because I had just spent two to three hundred dollars on jewelry making supplies like beads, wire, findings and such. As you will see at first after Craig made me two beautiful jewellery holders, we set up a sales table at a city fair of sorts trying to sell my new jewelry. After a long tiring day, we decided selling that way was not feasible for us. Then I discovered Etsy.com, set up my new shop called A Bergie Creation. It was a blast for ten years selling pieces all over the world. Watch the video to find out why it ended after ten years.
Welcome to Part 3 of My Personal Art History. This time I wanted to share my journey thus far with digital drawing then and now as I have been trying to transform from using art making materials like paper and pencils to my new iPad Pro using the Drawing App Procreate.
Yay, I was able to get out part two of my art history series. Unfortunately, I tried to type out cosed captions and discovered I am unable to type out all the words in a timely and accurate manner. I tried to do it today and it took me over two hours of making mistakes and then finally ending it before I was done. To check it out here is My Art History ;Painting video here.
Thank you to those wanting closed captions. I wholeheartedly wish I could just click on a button and it would automatically transcribe the script. If anyone is interested in volunteering to transcribe the audio to create closed captions, please feel free to message or email us. Until then, I will continue trying to be mindful of using descriptive titles and/or text to help explain what's happening. And try to type out more in the accompanying vlogs. These days my energy levels are a cause for concern. Always happy just to get the videos completed at all.
Today's video is part two in my Art History Series featuring Drawings and Illustrations.
Decided it would be fun to share my personal Art History broken up in parts according to the various media I have got to work with over the course of my life. Part one and two are focused on my number one, main discipline, drawing/illustrating and painting. My hope is to encourage and inspire budding artists of all ages and for those just interested in watching. Who knows, maybe someone will discover they are more creative than they ever realized.
We were about to campout in our living room last night. But before I settled down into my wheelchair seat to watch Daniel Craig's James Bond with my Craig, I was determined to edited the video. I had just made. Silly me thought it would go quickly! But nope. This new Learn With Me video is a good 45 minutes of Playing Around discovering and playing around with few of the bazillion Procreate Paint brushes on my IpadPro. Still slowly learning bit by bit but I could't wait to show you the great artistic possibilities.Watch Video Below
First of all, Here Is a new digital drawingProcreate on my IpadPro. I have been working, so far i am calling her Bluebelle. She's a work in progress.
Now all you Creatives, Check out Anita's New Fun Video Below. Took her about 5 hours in total to edit it, 330am and back at by 10am (we lost sleep thanks to Spring clock spring ahead - (Something called Daylight Savings Time) Editing me trying to clean it up and make it look as best as possible. From lighting to colouring, angles and inserting text as needed. Hope you like it and I hope you like it even a little!
Hello my fellow creators. To know more about why I am about to share in this post and video, please don't forget to check the previous post and video here. It's a week of firsts for me. Not just my first attempt at filming the highlights of using my first ever new iPad Pro 11 inch, 2021, along with of course my first Apple Pencil, the second generation. This is the biggest transition in my life since no longer walking at fourteen or so, to living on my own at 17, to being able to hire and manage my personal care attendants, to marriage, and these days the. biggest and saddest transition for me personally, from accepting that I can't work with all the art supplies I love. Instead of avoiding creating, it made more sense to embrace modern technology, making the most it. Adaptive aids are used to give many living with disabilities a voice, the ability to walk, sit comfortably, sleep better, hear for the first time, to better. To enhance relationships with communication devices among countless other things like extending life thanks to pacemakers, medical treatments and countless other advancements. Without my power wheelchair that can tilt, not only would I not be able to get around on my own, I wouldn't be able to get rest at night when I don't have enough personal care attendants to help me in and out of bed. So technologies and advancements like that, I have helped and leaps and bounds and it ways most of us would've never imagined. And it includes the ability to make art in different ways, instead of not being able to see you anymore.
Watch video below to see me using my first iPod an Apple Pencil
If you are new to HeArtfully Creating let me introduce myself. My name is Anita Berglund and I live in Canada. Ever since I can remember, I only ever wanted to be an artist.
Thanks to technology, I get to share various aspects of my life, our life (I have a wonderful husband of 20 years, named Craig) with whoever wants to listen. Since I was born with a neuromuscular disorder called Spinal Muscular Atrophy type 3, my muscles don't receive the messages to move like healthy muscles do. The motor neurone slowly deteriorate bit by bit. That means I once walked with a wobble and had full use of my upper body. At fourteen/fifteen, I started using a wheelchair, full time. Then as my muscles
Resin - Alcohol ink -Petri dish technique
have continued their decline, I have been able to adapt all aspects of my life quite easily. Easily because I still had use of my hands. Even as my arms were no longer able to be raised or lifted (no more hugging), I could still figure out how to create. Even in University (as a mature Art student), I had
pomegranate - Acrylic on canvas
switched to using Prismacolor Pencils instead of Acrylic paint, assuming painting was no longer possible. I believe God gave me the idea to prop my right arm up on my desk and a paint canvas on a chair seat, leaning against the back. Voila, I would be able to do my best paintings ever.
Wanting to teach and share everything creative, I started this blog. And of course hoping to find ways to earn money to help pay for my art supplies by blogging and YouTube. It was to coincide with my YouTube channel abergiecreation. As you look back, you will see that I have branched out dabbling in a variety of new media, such as alcohol ink, resin, jewellery making, wire work, beading, needle
A polymer clay pendant
felting, digital art, print making, and my favourite, Polymer Clay. That was like painting in three dimensions. Loved the polymer clay community, so many wonderful artists and teachers! It's been as if the whole world was opened up thanks to the Internet, we are able to learn anything we want. Until then it was paper pencils and paint. That made art making very easy to focus on. I must confess, as awesome as it is to be able to find tutorials on any subject matter imaginable, I definitely have found it hard to focus and concentrate on one skill. Which means you end up doing a little bit of everything but not getting very good at one thing. Needless to say, the last 10 years I've been all over the place, in a good way and financially in a bad way. Art supplies aren't cheap.
Unfortunately, as time has passed, my hand strength continues to diminish. As much as I tried working with my dominant right hand, it has just been too difficult. Energy, like gasoline in a vehicle, is also some thing that is Sparse these days. Perhaps it's due to the other big life change, the one every middle-age woman looks forward to ha ha, menopause. Even though spinal muscular atrophy does cause fatigue, this life change compounds that fatigue exponentially at times. Bottom line is as of late, I am unable to bring my two arms/hands together to work. You know how hands need to work together in order to get things done?
That it's some thing I didn't ever anticipate. I I always consider myself blessed because I was able to prepare for the weakening of my muscles. Just never really thought about losing the use of two
Needle felted hearts that I made
cooperating hands. Which has therefore, caused me to lack severely in productivity. At the same time dealing with other health issues, including that middle-aged lady one, has meant a lot of resting and battling the temptation to sink into depression. Trusting God with my life, by His grace I remain joyful in spite of the many unanticipated life factors (see our life blog www.walkingwayoverrated.blogspot.com for more on that).
I did this figurine in polymer clay
I don't know about you, but if I don't have projects to work on, motivation is dangerously low. Then wanting to do certain projects and not being able to do them, compound that lack of motivation. Diagnosed with ADHD about fifteen years ago, I realized it makes sense why when I enjoy what I am working on, it is all I can focus on. (no need for medication to do so). I get that way when watching a tv series. ER was my last viewing obsession, all 15 seasons. No other show, just ER. It's most likely how I am wired that causes me to focus on just one thing until I am satisfied it's completed or I get bored with it. Getting bored or something is then when I see the effects of that diagnosis. Focus then becomes impossible, bouncing from one subject to another or in TV World one channel to another. You could only imagine how hard it is to focus on YouTube, all those choices.
Because I knew I would slowly lose muscle use, not walking was no big deal to me. But I always assumed my hands would be usable, able to create no matter what. Facing the past couple of years has been far more challenging than I ever imagined. Not really focusing on what I can do, I focused more on what I couldn't do. There are a lot of wonderful people living with limited mobility, who lead creative, productive lives. Using their brilliant minds, they have no limits. I think of heroes of mine like Joni Eareckson Tada and Nick Vujcic, and Shane Burcaw. So, I had no excuse to wallow in self pity and do
A Doodle I did on wood with acrylic paint pens
nothing. It only takes my right hand to the this blog. It only takes that same hand to draw, to press buttons and with the arms and legs of others and assistive devices, I can get a hand to accomplish whatever I need to. Well obviously, I do approach things with reason and except that my dream of being a fire fighter or a brain surgeon just won't happen no matter who tries to help me out. My voice is still there and the grey matter God blessed me with is as active as ever!
So I recently have started bit by bit, passing on my art supplies to those who I hope will make the most of them. (I must say that is a big challenge because it's tempting to think, what if I can find a way to use them?) It's quite normal that artists can be addicted to collecting art supplies. That can mean having supplies you never even touch, but just enjoy looking at. Weird, I know, but it's true. It brings great joy, encouraging children of all ages (and even adults) to create in whatever way shape, or form they can.
Struggling more and more with feeling kind of like a lazy slug, unmotivated and not producing much of anything. The biggest decision so far in this life transition was finally made days ago. Thanks to the encouragement from my husband, that's what this video is about. About the first step in adapting and learning a new easier way to create art with one hand. So watch the video to see step One, step two is supposed to be delivered by 8 PM tonight. Apprehensive but also excited.
Watch Below- Apple Pencil Unboxed. Digital Artventure Begins
A Bite Out Of Life
Of course, when one has a physical disability, it's pretty common to adapt by doing things in whatever way you can. Our mouth is extremely helpful to many of us, to carry out a wide variety of tasks. Everything from opening pens to carrying keys, clothing, blankets and towels, basically whatever our mouth can hold. My husband carries recycle bags to the door between his teeth on garbage night!!
One of my Digital Paintings with a small Wacomb drawing tablet
If I remember correctly, one of my heroes, Nick born without arms or legs mentioned earlier, proposed to his now wife, by placing the engagement ring in his mouth and slipping it onto her finger. Genius!
My acrylic paint pens
This is not as romantic as that but, and never will be, but even though I can draw with one hand, when using drawing implements with lids it requires a second hand to pull those off. Pretty much my entire life, even when my hands were stronger, it just was always easier to use my teeth. There's no avoiding cold hard reality, especially after you hear a loud crack in your left molar while trying to yank off a large Sharpie lid. Thankfully it doesn't hurt.
Thought investing in paint pens would be a good way to adapt, to be able to paint and draw since working with paint supplies, has become too challenging to even think about. I didn't consider the damage happening to my teeth by removing all those lids. As well, it turns out paint pens can be very frustrating when it seems like one out of ever four or five doesn't work.
Which leads to my new Adventure in art making digitally.
Before the pens, Years ago I did try digital drawing on a Wacomb tablet. It was remarkable how you can create art using tools that simulate real media like pastels, paint and pencils. Even making it look like you are drawing on textured art paper. However, it didn't go very far because of the quality of the lower end device. I had little control with the stylus. It felt like kindergarten all over again. So I didn't bother learning or investing in anything of a higher quality.
Until now...Excited to use this new device that actually works!
More Digital Adaptions
For a few years now, I also have no longer been able to use real books due to their weight (like my newest 2 pound beautiful Bible created for decorative journalling) and as much as I like an actual book, I have been transitioning to audio books like Audible and digital books like Kindle. As well our Amazon Echo devices will even read our Kindle book texts.
Alcohol Ink - abstract by me
Ready, Set, Go!
So this is it. Even though I have spent a lifetime enjoying the handling of art supplies, all senses aware of creating. The sounds, scissors clacking, tearing of the paper, the crinkling of cellophane, the soft scratching of chalk pastels on a textured surface, the squishy, gloppy sound of mixing paints. The feel of using my finger tips to smudge graphite, spread pigments, squeeze clay, or remove pigment. How about the scents of art making? Remember Crayola crayons? Take a whiff and you will be reminded of your childhood.
All of that to say this, I have accepted that I can still make art and create😁. It's not time to give up completely. What have I decided to do instead of all the ways I created before? (Wow, that's about 50 years, I am 55). It involves Amazon and Apple and the first part of my order arrived yesterday, hence the video. Watch the video to see more. And now, been waiting all of today for the main part of the order. Unfortunately, it's almost 8pm and still no deliveries except one. Our hearts raced as we saw the courier truck pull up and as fast as our heart rates increased, they sank just as quick, as we saw a yellow bubble envelope. A screen protector! That's another clue. Too bad. Yet nervous to stop vigilantly watching out the window worrying about "Porch Pirates." Oh well, Craig and I have to close the curtains sooner or later. Amazon's order status says it's being delivered today. Not!
The anticipation increases.
While we wait, just watch the video and you will learn how I can keep on creating with one hand and without endangering my teeth anymore or using all my energy. It's all brand new to me, but not to most modern artists.
