Category: Creativity
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Mood Board For Black, Red & White Quilt
One of my goals for this year is to create a quilt for my son. He was sad when he learned that my mom had made my daughter two quilts and he never got one. Plus, it is my goal to learn surface design, so I am using this opportunity to make him a quilt…
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Be Joyful in Hope
Joy has been something I have been chasing for the past few years trying to understand what joy means. One joy quote that I have on my desk is from Romans 12:12 which mentions joy and has been something that I glance up at while creating. I have no idea how I came across this…
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Leafing Towards Joy
This past week I have been trying to practice creating illustrations with a limited palette. This color palette that I am working with right now was inspired from some cute pajamas that I saw the other day at Target. Alas, the pjs were in kid’s size, but if they were adult size, I probably would…
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Trying New Things
Recently I started the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron again. I completed 10 weeks out of 12 weeks of the program in 2020 and thought it was time to restart. I have been in a creative funk lately and was not sure what direction I wanted to go. As it would happen, I…
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Painting for Others
Recently I was asked to paint a lid for the rosary box at my church. What a fun challenge for me since I have only painted in watercolor lately. The lid is a plastic blue lid, so the first thing I did was paint the first layer white. After the first layer dried, I applied…
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Windmills
Both of my parents were photographers, so I grew up in a home that honored creativity. I remember riding around the panhandle of Texas with my parents as they looked for windmills to photograph. I still have one of my dad’s photos on my wall in my living room of a windmill that he took.…
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Too Much Water?
One challenge with watercolor painting is not using to much water. I use the student grade Canson 140lb watercolor paper, so sometimes I feel a little water goes a long way. Today I was trying to paint the sky in this painting from Kolbie Blume’s book, Wilderness Watercolor Landscapes, titled Cotton Candy Sky. The skies…
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Growing Together
The soil is cleared from dead leaves and plants from the previous year. The dead plants remind us of what was and what is possible for this new year. Will the new plants grow like their predecessors or will they exceed expectations and grow more robust? The day is young as the young boy and…
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Little Acorn
The acorn falls down from the tree. It does not know what it will be. Will the acorn become nourishment or a tree.
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Fall Walk
Once a boy and his dog went for a walk on a Fall afternoon. As they were walking along the sky started to turn darker. The boy noticed the warning of the pending storm and started to worry because he came unprepared for a storm. Scared and frightened the boy and his dog ran to…
Ruthanne Waltz 