A Mindful Life

Kandinsky-Inspired Abstract / 11″ x 17″ marker on watercolor paper …lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? -Wassily Kandinsky

Blue Moon Love / 6″ x 8″ oil pastel, ink, and marker on card stock The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. -William C. Bryant

Swirly Kitty / 8.5″ x 11″ marker on paper Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a [...]

I experimented and drew with my non-dominant (right) hand. Contentment / 4″ x 6″ ink on card stock There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block [...]

Catting About / 8.5″ x 11″ charcoal sketch on paper I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. -Jules Verne

What the Rushing River Sees / 8″ x 10″ acrylic on canvas board The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing [...]

Shaman / 11″ x 17″ collage with watercolor crayons, acrylic paint, and paper on foam board Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde

Polka Dot Cat / 3″ x 5″ ink and marker on card stock You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. -Proverb

Radiant Pure Love / 4″ x 4.25″ oil pastel and collage on card stock Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this [...]

Claire at 5 Months / 4.5″ x 7″ pencil on sketch paper I have very little experience with drawing, especially sketching portraits. I can see how the lips, forehead, and eyes are slightly out of proportion, and I didn’t capture the tilt of her head, and I don’t have the essence of the slightly inquisitive [...]