Boosting mental health skill building
Art and Mental Health Hopefully, my readers know I write about both my art and mental health resources. If you are a new reader, well, there you have it – here at the “…Studios” you will get a little of both of my Gemini sides! With today’s post about my new online art gallery. Helping …
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Lack of Rural Teaching Resources Parents, homeschoolers, and preschool teachers often struggle to find picture books about rural agricultural areas where their students live. Because of this, educators must change what is available or go without. This causes extra work and leaves children missing out on important information about their home. Efforts are being made …
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Art and Mental Health. No Brainer! This new tagline I created from a Wendy MacNaughton quote should help readers (and Google!) better understand aws Studios. In her “Pencil Skills Part 1” post about drawing with healthcare professionals, MacNaughton declares, “Art and health. No. Brainer.” (Which I understand to mean how ones’ involvement in art or …
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-creating the pastiche gave me the opportunity to make a picture book fast, getting an entire book done in five months-
My 2020 and 2021 collages, “Sunrise in the Preserve” and “Sunrise near Bellacina” are currently showing in the Venice (Florida) Art Center’s new “Near and Far” show (running now through February 11, 2022). The two works together in a series of three (including “Sunrise on the Bay”) tell the story about how creating art during …
In a recent meeting of the Florida SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), I heard writers expressing their desire (and frustration?) for ways to illustrate their picture books. Two years ago, I came up with an idea to make my granddaughter a picture book about my mother (her great grandmother) for Christmas. Since …
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Like my old friend and colleague, illustrator, Jerry Russell, who chooses to work in different illustration styles dismissing the adage that illustrators should settle into one or two styles, I too have worked in a variety of media and, overtime, have shown different styles. (Though, I admit that, currently, I have settled comfortably into collage …
Most of my art in the last few years has been in collage – “painting” with pieces of fabric or paper and gluing to a hard surface to create a picture. In addition to collage, I have also been doing assemblage often described as three-dimensional collage. Assemblage “assembles” objects onto a canvas or board or …
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In the winter, my husband and I leave our cherished cottage on “The Great Sodus Bay” (as it’s termed in Google Maps) off Lake Ontario for the warmer climes of the Gulf of Mexico. My favorite bike ride there is to leave my home in Venice, Florida, hop on the wonderful “Legacy Trail” and make …
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Welcome to the first installment of the aws Studios blog! Here are stories about the art I make. Enjoy! A New Collage alis’s like vincent’s is one of my most recent works. It’s a mixed media paper collage that I did for the Salvador Dali Museum’s “Paint Your Bedroom Contest”, a promotional event for the …
