An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

I keep dreaming I'll have a few hours of my own just to paint...an actual painting but it is not going to happen any time soon.  Compan...

Every time I sit down and look through my own personal journals, the materials from classes I've taught about journaling, the blogs abou...

I am still fighting that cold and it's not making me feel too terribly creative today.  SOOOOO I decided not to waste the day but to wor...

I've been off line for a few days...one reason is that I fried my external modem on my iMac in a power surge on Friday.  Sigh.   It pays...

So here I am back to the studio on a very dark and very rainy northern Wisconsin morning.  No place better than in your studio, right?   You...

Before and After Here I am doing re-furbishing of signs today (acrylic) while Deb Ward is creating THE most fantastic batik of a flag that ...

The wedding cookbook is finally finished. It really took quite a bit longer than I envisioned.  It turned out to be 33 pages (back to back)....

I mentioned in my last post about needing "space between the notes".  All my company has left now and it's a gorgeous sunny no...

My favorite quote from Wayne Dyer is "It's the spaces between the notes that make the music, otherwise what you have is noise....

Our visit to Waswagoning Ojibwe Indian "re-created" village today in Lac du Flambeau was really so fascinating!  We took our 15 ye...

Just at 7 pm at the north woods cabin, a kind of stillness settles over the lake.  The lake goes glass-like.  The cabin faces west so the wa...

Meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means,...

I know. I know.  It's a little obsessive to be thinking about Christmas on August 5.  But I have this really good professional printer u...

What a really pleasant surprise to learn yesterday that I had a first and third place ribbon in Acrylics AND I sold a watercolor painting! I...

One short note to end Friday...I don't think I've ever had this many paintings hanging together in one place ever!   Well, I did a o...

Since I am away from the studio for a few days due to shows (and a ton of guests again) I thought I'd mention something that I plan to t...

I would have given anything to be in the stu dio or out sketching today. Sigh. But today had been set aside for framing (or in the case of g...

I worked on the cookbook again yesterday...and I actually found a very nice 3 ring notebook with a slide-in plastic cover (in purple of cour...

My next project is to put together a family cookbook for a wedding gift for my nephew (Sept 5 in Santa Cruz, CA).  7 of us in the family are...

Gouache  ( English pronunciation:  /ɡuːˈæʃ/ ;  French:  [ˈɡwaʃ] ), the name of which derives from the  Italian   guazzo ,  water paint, spla...