InkTracks

Drawing and painting, to create a mindful path through my days.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Sage Stossel

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A great cartoon for a glimpse of how we've changed in the last 10 years. Sage Stossel in the Boston Globe If the link takes you where yo...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Isaac Asimov said:

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"What militates against creativity most of all is peer pressure. By definition, that is creative which seems new and novel to most peop...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

the underside of a clamp

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Filling a sketchbook page. Pencil.
Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Everything!

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Whatever holiday you're celebrating, from Solstice to Christmas to Surviving 2009, enjoy the coming Light and warmth of the season! w/c ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

practicing fabric folds

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This is an eyemask that I folded and held with my left hand as I drew the shadows and creases. Pencil on Mead Academy paper.
Monday, December 21, 2009

layering the cover

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Rolling color onto a boring sketchbook cover. I covered the inside with shades of phthalo turquoise. This book had a 50 pages of 130# paper....
Sunday, December 20, 2009

the freedom of mixed media

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Collage, acrylic, Stayz On stamp pad ink, and lots of gel medium. Oranges and greens are calling me now.
Saturday, December 19, 2009

bear back

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I was flipping through an Arches spiralbound book of 140# paper and found a watercolor sketch of the bear. Adding a background made it posta...
Friday, December 18, 2009

blue armwarmers

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One more project finished. I started these probably 3 years ago, had the first one done a long time before I started the second. And the las...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

a hat a day

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Six hats in six days last week! That's a record for my knitting production. Each one is different. I started the top left one with a ban...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Gorey shadows

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Maybe none would agree with me, but this quick sketch with a Wolff carbon pencil reminded me of works by Edward Gorey , a favorite of mine. ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

in progress

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I drew the blocks freehand, and first, this time, then filled in the colors. The verticals are slightly aslant here; part of that is my croo...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

painting in a series

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This might be the first in a series of abstracts corraled by grids. Maybe. This is a page in the journal where I kept putting the last bits ...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

knitting fast

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Given the 9 inches of snow we got on Wednesday, these are ready for cold heads. The purple and orange ones are destined for a friend's t...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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