http://vener-art.com/beadblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:29:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The color trend of the most recent decade struck me as somber and muted and so dreary but I kept creating with the vibrant, crisp colors I love; colors such as mango and orange and hot pink and red and... Well, the list is almost endless. Now, I am excited ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/spring-brings-colors/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/getting-the-word-out-and-about/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/oceana-coming-together/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/juggling-creativity-in-art-and-business/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/oceana-and-the-tree-on-the-house/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/adance-your-actions-to-reach-your-goals/ It's Chaucer's fault. Or maybe the ancient Greeks who celebrated Gamelion, a season dedicated to the marriage of Hera and Zeus; or the ancient Romans who observed a complex rite of fertility between the 13th and 15th of February. Or it could be an evolution from Lupercalia, another fertility ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/avant-valentines-day/ Garnet is well known as January's birthstone because, unlike many other stones, it is the birthstone for both traditional and modern lists as well as for the lessor known Ayervedic list. But it is not the only stone associated with the month. Bernadine's entry for January lists 12 birthstones! Even as ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/beyond-garnets-januarys-other-birthstones/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/oceana-on-a-platter/ 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 ... http://vener-art.com/beadblog/index.php/how-is-a-clean-desk-like-acupuncture/