An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

About 5 of the outdoor painters from Leesburg area gathered at Venetian Gardens last Thursday (the 14th of May) for some sketching ...

"The Art Library and Back Corner of my Studio" wc and ink on Arches hot press paper 9 x 12 "Front Corner of St...

ink, crayon, oil pastel, wc pencil Pandemic Mother's Day.  I sure hope I am NOT saying that NEXT May.  I know you all feel the ...

   One of the websites my daughter, Julie, sent me had a ton of ideas about how to "journal" your way through the pandemic...or...

The "gratitude" project is finished.  Designed by the founders of the Zentangle method, the 9 videos  divided the  project up...

Periodically the Zentangle® family gets together and tries some new creations.  Sponsored by Zentangle founders, Rick and Marie and thei...

So here we are together...many of us pretty much quarantined at home  trying  to make some sense out of what is happening in our world, ...

And so life does go on. But certainly never in our wildest dreams like this. The more folks I talk to the wider and more diverse the r...

Day 10...actually a demonstration of a frozen lake...quite nice with limited palette.  But frankly I could not get  my head  around ske...

The prompt for Day 7 had to do with floral watercolors.  The example was "okay" but not what I felt like doing...so I put tog...

This is a quick view of the next 3 prompts.  The artist who give the prompts are listed on the right page at the top.  The "East...

Keeping sane in crazy days...well one way is to join an online "prompt" group.  This one is also on Face Book so that everyone ...

Or course, this time around in my journal I am noting the difference in my own situation and my feelings between Feb 13 and  March  20 an...

My walk last evening brought me past many homes (including my own of course) filled with spring flowers.  I decided to focus on a few o...

Nothing is normal now. That kind of  unpredictable nature of life right now produces a lot of anxiety and worry.  The nature of thi...

During these turbulent and very  unusual  and stressful times, artists are fortunate to have one outlet that rarely lets them down...the...

Just a normal day...one of those days that we forget to appreciate...ordinary.  I continue to play a little with different kinds of ton...

Fussing around testing materials may not be as interesting to my blog followers.  But it is important.  As you play and create with new...

Every now and then one needs to step back and go through techniques and materials and see what you have and what some of your original ...

While most of this sketch was done with  Lamy  Safari  fountain  pen and black carbon ink...the "twigs" started to get away fro...