An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is the first, wildest, wisest thing I know: the soul exists...it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Thursday, August 27, 2020

HOME: a theme for sketching

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It seems like whenever I start upon a "theme" for some journal work, I like to have some sort of special place for it to reside.  ...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

Sketching Indoors in Hot Weather

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While central Florida steams under 95 degrees it's just too crazy to try to be outside sketching.  You just melt.   So while ...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Project Pact #10 in Zentangle

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Periodically Zentangle (Central) offers a series of "project pact" videos to just fire up the Zentangle groupies everywhere. ...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

July Art

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When I did the  composition  on this I left room on the right to add a few more flowers.  So hopefully you will see this again....someday...
Friday, July 10, 2020

Working to Find Hope

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"Recalculating" (collage, ink, acrylic on paper) 8 x 8 Kenneth Samual writes this morning:  "Social grievance and an...
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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Life Goes On

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You have no doubt seen bits and pieces of this group of "littles" or " smallies" on and off from time to time as it ...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Quiet Summer in Florida

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Outdoor sketching in the summer here in Florida is touch and go.  Many days in late June the predicted high is close to 100 degrees and t...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Only More So

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A small collection of thoughts describing one day where I slipped through "a-day-in-the-corona  virus-life" . (note Greg an...
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Monday, May 18, 2020

The Joys of Being Outdoors

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About 5 of the outdoor painters from Leesburg area gathered at Venetian Gardens last Thursday (the 14th of May) for some sketching ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Pandemic Days and Trying to find Reality

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"The Art Library and Back Corner of my Studio" wc and ink on Arches hot press paper 9 x 12 "Front Corner of St...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Mother's Day During Pandemic

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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 ...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Journaling in Pandemic Days

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   One of the websites my daughter, Julie, sent me had a ton of ideas about how to "journal" your way through the pandemic...or...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Finished with Zentangle Project Pact 9

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The "gratitude" project is finished.  Designed by the founders of the Zentangle method, the 9 videos  divided the  project up...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Pandemic Zentangle Project

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Periodically the Zentangle® family gets together and tries some new creations.  Sponsored by Zentangle founders, Rick and Marie and thei...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Pandemic Days

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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, ...
Friday, April 10, 2020

A Journal In the Time of Corona Virus

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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...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Finishing up Sketchbook Revival Prompts...Day 10,11,12

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Day 10...actually a demonstration of a frozen lake...quite nice with limited palette.  But frankly I could not get  my head  around ske...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Sketchbook Revival Days 7,8,9

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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...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Day 4, 5 and 6 in the Sketchbook Revival Prompt Challenge

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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...
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Ginny Stiles
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
I live in Madison, Wisconsin and summer for a few months in Lac du Flambeau, WI. I teach watercolor, mixed media and Zentangle classes.
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