Tangle with TrishA recent FaceBook post caught my eye. It was by a person who spent many hours creating a very special card and sent it to a person who briefly enjoyed, then threw the card away. The numerous comments expressed outrage and negatives about the card-receiver. why Give art: There is a general assumption that the […]
why I chose Zoom: In 2014, I started an art group that met weekly at our church. Delightedly, half of our group is over 80 years old. Devastatingly, a pandemic stopped in-person gathering, starting in March, 2020. Deliberately, our art community continued… at our first “online” meeting: 2 people on phone (Facetime) 2 people on […]
Think: What Content (pages) do you need to include? What Action (choose a button or link) do you want your viewer to take? create a Layout: Watch Boujee Barbiee’s YouTube video: How to Make a Website for Beginners. Here are my notes when I tried it on 8/6/2020: Go to WIX.com Sign Up Answer questions: […]
Beginning a work of art, we think about “the artistic arrangement of the parts of a picture” (definition of composition, New Oxford American Dictionary) because our goal is to lead the viewer’s eye through the work. We achieve this goal through effective use of 8 elements of composition: unity, balance, movement, rhythm, focus, contrast, pattern, […]
January 26, 2017 Tuesday was Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. How did I find that out? From “The Diva,” a VERY talented Certified Zentangle® Teacher in Canada. One of her sons, Artoo, has an extremely rare disorder called Moebius Syndrome. She says: “In the beginning – I came to Zentangle for the art. I was drawn […]