missouribendstudio: teabag drawings

Friday, May 4, 2012

May!

Welcome to the first week of May....kind of hard to believe it, actually. The way the garden looks right now, you'd think it was early June....the irises are in full bloom and the peonies are about to open already! I hope it's a nice long summer....with no disasters to befall anyone. I hesitate to invoke last year's flooding along the Missouri, but we are thankful we don't have to repeat that episode this year! Now that I'm working, life is full of new experiences, new ways of doing things and my circuits are nearly overloaded. But, the dailies continue....a nice way of balancing and keeping things from spiraling quite so freely out of control! I'll share the newest of the dailies from MissouriBendMusings and a piece I added to the MissouriBendStudio shop last week, along with a couple amazing views of the clouds last evening just about sunset....beautiful!

April 28, 2012

April 29, 2012

April 30, 2012

May 1, 2012

May 2, 2012

May 3, 2012

Ancient Text (Reading the Signs)

Hope you guys have a great weekend...see you at the beginning of the week!

Monday, February 13, 2012

Inner Worlds

I have kind of missed the snow this winter....finally we are getting a winter wonderland. A few inches fell overnight and a light, sometimes imperceptible, snow has been falling most of the day...beautiful, especially over the river!

I've been thinking about my daily drawings and how to describe what I am learning from them. For some, the format, not to mention the structure of the practice itself, can seem very limiting, I realize. But for me, giving a framework to something somehow seems to allow the possibilities to expand. I don't know what will happen on that tiny teabag when I sit down in the morning, but each day small worlds open up....there is always quiet as I arrange the table with a vase or a bottle, sometimes erasing and placing it here then there....as if I've come upon the scene and have moved the objects from the location where they lived moments before in someone else's life or someone else's dream. I think there are infinite possibilities available from the view of any window.....these small, fragile teabags become windows for me and I draw just enough to make visible the quiet of an inner world.