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Artist Perpetually in Progress
http://www.artbybethrobinson.com/journal
Sharing my artistic journey in hopes that it will inspire yours. Someday I will reach the complex layered work I dream of making.
- Added on: May 1st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Beth Robinson
- Listed in: Mixed Media
- Tags: art embroidery creativity collage beth robinson
Recent Posts
Revisiting What Was In Progress
My last post back in (cough) July was unduly optimistic. Sigh. But I opened up my project box last night. I put away various threads and beads from things that were actually completed before I stopped creating and threw away a couple things. This is ...
Long Live the Blog!
In the middle of my last project for the last class of my MBA I took an evening off. I watched a movie. I cross-stitched someone else's pattern. And I felt at ease. I hadn't thought of myself as an artist for a couple months, but I definitely wasn't ...
Verbal vs. Visual Art
The more I concentrate on writing the less I feel the drive to do visual art. I still want to stitch, but it's easier to let that slide as well. It's not even pure creative writing. I would never present it to anyone as verbal art, despite the title ...
Indulgence
I really have no reason to be doing this. But I want to anyway. I was given a book about Drawing Fantasy Figures and I started one of the dragons from it. This is how far I got... You can see the penciled in skeleton if you look closely, then some p...
Watercolors for What If...
After my last post some questions seeped up from the depths of my mind. Why was I doing a watercolor anyway? Could I go upstairs to the guest room where my paper is and build collages instead? If I want to use materials that are stored in the bedroom...
Doorway in Watercolor
This piece was part of an exercise to gain more time for creative endeavors - both writing and art. I enjoy silence for certain things and lack of small grabby hands for other things, so I've started getting up a little earlier in the morning and mak...
