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Persist: The Blog: Strategies to Persist
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Exploring the challenges of the creative mind in a world of commerce. Your Blog Too: How to Participate. This page offers an ever expanding collection of essays, prompts and the journey of both my own and other creative souls. I Heeding The Call. Remember, as a child, hearing your mother’s or your father’s voice, calling your name? You felt, perhaps, recognized. Your very being was somehow affirmed. If you follow your calling, this is how you feel. At one with yourself. A familiar pattern of events had b...
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Soulful Creating: Student Work from Wire Wrapping 7 Weeks
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Thursday, May 30, 2013. Student Work from Wire Wrapping 7 Weeks. Just a sampling of student work from session #3 of my Wire Wrapping class. It is such a blast working with 12 students who are so excited about what they are learning. This is their 2nd attempt at wrapping a cabochon and they did great! Click on any photo for a closer look. Student Work 1 - Wire Wrapping 7 Weeks at Phoenix Center for the Arts. Student Work 2 - Wire Wrapping. Phoenix Center for the Arts. Wow, i...
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Soulful Creating: Mixed Media Fabric Art Explorations - Playing with Shaving Cream
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Mixed Media Fabric Art Explorations - Playing with Shaving Cream. I am really going to miss these students when this class ends in a few weeks! There is so much joy in experimenting and playing with techniques with like-minded people. Part of tonight's fun was marbling with shaving cream with inks and acrylics on water color paper, deli paper and fabric. Class Location: Phoenix Center for the Arts. Its always fun creating with like minded people.
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Soulful Creating: March 2013
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Friday, March 15, 2013. Stitching on Air Part 1. My first attempt at sewing on air. Phoenix Quilt Artist Nancy Green had an article in the October/November 2012. Issue of Quilting Arts Magazine about 'Stitching on Air'. The moment I saw it I knew I had to try it. In all my years of sewing, it never occurred to me that I could stitch across empty spaces. But it works! After my first experiment you see above, I jumped in to try doing a small piece. Links to this post. Links t...
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Soulful Creating: Textures in Clay
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Monday, January 21, 2013. I Love. Texture. I love to explore mediums and techniques to see how I might combine them. My recent explorations with earthenware clay and various textures have led me to creating several free-form flat shapes of clay with texture designs on the surface. These are so much fun! I love this type of creative exploration and am having fun just letting the pieces come to life. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fiber Arts Mixed Media. Just when you th...
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Soulful Creating: Fused Glass Class Two
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Sunday, March 3, 2013. Fused Glass Class Two. I am having so much fun in this Intro to Fused Glass Class at Phoenix Center for the Arts! Class #2 was all about 'cutting practice'. Really, scoring and breaking. Since I live for the challenge of the creative process, my design required a lot of practice. Needless to say, I am much better at cutting 1/4 (approx) pieces of glass now than I was at the start. My coasters Before firing:. In all their imperfect glory. :-). Wow, it ...
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Soulful Creating: Quilt Experiment: Gesso & Paint
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Creatively Expressing My Soul. Monday, September 16, 2013. Quilt Experiment: Gesso and Paint. After Gesso is added. After Paint is added. This fabric mixed media experiment was inspired by work I have seen on the blog Purple Missus and the work that Linda and Diana Kemshall in their book The Painted Qu. My favorite part of this are the my little circles that meander across this piece. I think they now look like stones in a river. I am curious what you see and what you like about this experiment? Thank yo...
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Persist: The Blog: February 2013
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Exploring the challenges of the creative mind in a world of commerce. Your Blog Too: How to Participate. Friday, February 22, 2013. From The Buddha Diaries. As you'll there in this entry, I'm beginning to think that TBD is approaching the end of its run. It has been active since the demise of The Bush Diaries. Should it be another blog? So here I am, looking back at "Persist: The Blog" and wondering whether this might not be the forum- and the title- that I'm looking for. If I do decide to move on fr...
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Persist: The Blog: “I DO IT FOR MYSELF”
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Exploring the challenges of the creative mind in a world of commerce. Your Blog Too: How to Participate. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. 8220;I DO IT FOR MYSELF”. Another chapter. Note: this includes/adapts some material that was included in a prior "Persist: The Blog" entry.). I actually don’t do it for myself, and it saddens me when I hear an artist or a fellow writer offering this last-ditch defense. Creativity is love-making, not masturbation. But still, it’s no substitute for what really counts. But the real...
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Persist: The Blog: March 2011
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Exploring the challenges of the creative mind in a world of commerce. Your Blog Too: How to Participate. Monday, March 28, 2011. On my "Waiting for Hockney" exchange with Cynda Valle. She wrote:. Dear Peter, thanks for all. As Glenn said when he read your reply: "There's alot of wisdom here". I have to agree that the art itself was pretty anti-climatic once we finally got to see it. But despite that (or because of it! Yet sees the photographic root of the drawing problematic? I'm enjoying the dialogue!
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