I love to talk. My family nickname when I was very small was CRJ, short for Constantly Running Jaws. I’ve always had a lot to say. As an adult, little has changed; I’m opinionated, verbose, and fond of the lilt of language, (not to mention the allure of alliteration). Finally technology has caught up to [...]

I promised I’d keep you in the loop on the creative process of my opus, “Oceana,” and so here is my latest update. Originally I had intended this piece for the Etsy BeadWeavers’ February challenge, but the piece has had other ideas. It was only recently I have been able to get the center put [...]

Art is easy, instinctive even, for me. Time management and other business processes are come less easily for me. These require me to engage in a different kind of creativity. Time management is a tool to make it possible to spend more quality time in the studio and less worrying about tasks I’m not crazy [...]

Creating a new major work takes a goodly amount of time, from the initial idea to designing to choosing the materials to actually getting started. And there’s the restarting – at least restarting parts of the thing. I suspect this is the case for many art forms, not just bead weaving. Since showing the initial [...]

I’ve been reading a lot lately about goal setting, planning, management and while most of the advice is all pretty similar, pretty much the same thing said in different words, one topic does not find agreement by all the experts. One expert says get the small stuff done, another says the opposite. A third says [...]

In last Wednesday’s blog piece, Horizons 2010, I introduced you to may latest Masterwork in progress, Oceana by way of a faint sketch in pencil. Of course in my head it’s completely finished but before I can show you that, I have to do the weaving of teeny tiny beads and a few other components. [...]

As I understand the theory behind the process, acupuncture allows energy to flow more freely along one’s meridians. Modern physical explanations referring to stimulated internal electrical currents and oxygenation aside, the traditional Chinese imagery is one that resonates with my imagination. My creativity can be likened to a not very classical river that however it [...]

My horizon is a distant swath of color reflecting the beauty I will bring to the universe. It is all the paintings, drawings, necklaces, bracelets and earrings that I will create between now and then. The really cool think about the horizon is that we can never reach it. We can start walking and keep [...]

Every artist has her own way of working. Some work from life, some from imagination and many of us combine these to relate our vision. Some paintings are started and finished in one sitting while others can take months. Starting with today’s post, I am going to let you watch as I create a new [...]

I rarely get to finish a piece on time for the Etsy Beadweavers monthly challenges, but I did it this month, the December 2009 “Peace Piece” challenge. My entry is a sculptural necklace accompanied by a poem. There are 20 entries, each an expression of the artist’s interpretation or inspiration of the theme. My own [...]