November's open studio will be on Nov. 16, since our neighbor's mother is celebrating 100th birthday on the 9th.
Visited Andres Institute of Art in Brookline, NH

I've been working on my drawing skills using some backyard items, since we've had such perfect Indian Summer weather. Here are photos of  a metal chair and the artists shed...

Working on more new pieces during Open Studio.

love the leaf

maybe it needs a poem....

I'm working out specifics for art work to look something like this:

 

thinking of a title something like.... "stones, paper, ink"

 

Also, I got some pretty good pics of the bluebirds who stopped by a week ago

in garden #1

 



October 12th is the next OPEN STUDIO here at 7New Road. I'll be using stencils and masks with ink sprays and watercolor splatter.

This spread was done with the ink on the stencil, flipped and pressed onto the page.

Shared this and other pages at OPEN STUDIO this afternoon.
I worked on this page yesterday, since I was unable to go to work -had a doctor's appointment about the fracture in my knee !

 

I wrote a selection of ideas from Art Journal summer issue on post-its and scattered them throughout my date book. Yesterday's said to do a page half in text and half image.

 

 

September twelfth, 2013

One year and one day after the nightmare in NYC,DC, AND PA.

Rain's steady beat punctuated by now distant thunder.

A crow caws persistently; a single tree frog chirps timidly.

Wounds heal.

What have we learned?

My knee problems have forced me to be sedentary, and have been doing some fun art work.

I splattered watercolors, then created a doodle art ATC and attached it.

 sprayed with inks


I like the Journal page (the top image)  so much - doing it and looking at it - that I decided to dedicate a whole sketchbook to similar work. I've been spraying pages using stencils, and masks, and creating a stack of cards with tangled doodle art.

I made the spiral, hand and leaf stencils, the other is a plastic thing that was on a laptop/keyboard.
OPEN STUDIO , September 14th, 1- 4:00.