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, November 26, 2020

Resilience and Facing Forward

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  Today is Thanksgiving Day 2020..I hope you are okay, safe and well.  I pray that we all are.  Here's a song for reminding you about t...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Keeping pens and pencils and brushes alive in October!

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I am doing little bits a pieces of my life these days...I sketch while Greg gets his haircut and after I get mine done.  I've put a litt...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Wild and Wooly Art of All Kinds

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This past week we all finished up with the Zentangle Project Pact #11 and it was fun.  Not my most favorite project pack but still interesti...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Drawing in the Sweet Spot

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 The "Project Pacts" are free to watch on YouTube.  1-10 are completed and each series has several videos to watch.  They are pret...
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Monday, September 21, 2020

Lots and Lots of ideas floating around!

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  This is a small painting (5 x 7) egg tempera on Aqua Board.  It is my response to reading a book about Andrew Wyeth for the Library Book G...
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Sunday, September 6, 2020

A potpourri of sketches: odds and ends in my sketchbook this week

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The story on this tiny sketch is that a friend stopped by with this little tiny molded drink coaster holder the other day. All wrapped ...
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...
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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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