Flying Solo (Dragonfly Mandala (Haiga & Collage), 4/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 4, January 30th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Drawn by hand with a black Ultra Fine Point Sharpie on Canson Mix Media XL Series 98lb drawing paper. Collaged & colored with Faber Castell 6 PITT Artist Brush Pens, [...]
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The Devil’s Bridge
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Culture, Dreams, Holding My Breath, Life, Nature, Place, Poetry, Silence, Wake Up, tagged bridges, fear & fearlessness, fear of bridges, inspiration, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, journeys, landscape painting, legend, mythology, overcoming fear, painters, Pass of St. Gotthard, poets, red Ravine Guests, Teresa Williams, The Devil's Bridge, the power of poetry, the practice of poetry, the value of the Arts, warriors on January 27, 2011 | 26 Comments »
by Teresa Williams Joseph Mallord William Turner from St. Gotthard & Mont Blanc Sketchbook [Finberg LXXV], The Devil’s Bridge, near Andermatt, Pass of St. Gotthard, Switzerland, 1802. *The Devil’s Bridge Blue twilight of ash washing the weathered mountains, a single goat-bell clangs disrupting the high silence. The traveller stops in the middle of the narrow [...]
Searching For Stillness
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Haiku, Life, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Things That Fly, Vision, tagged alotus_poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 52, building community through the Arts, collaboration, collaborative photography, collaborative poetry, haiga, origami, Poetry By Lotus, the value of the Arts on January 25, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Searching For Stillness (Haiga Collage), 3/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 3, January 22nd 2011, photo © 2011 by A~Lotus. All rights reserved. Medium: Origami paper, stickers, Elegant Writer calligraphy markers, color pencils, Fiskars Paper Edgers scissors, color lithograph on card stock by Ota Saburo (cutout from a 2011 planner). Poem & origami cranes by A~Lotus. [...]
icicle tumbleweed (haiga) – 2/52
Posted in Art, Body, Bones, Haiku, Life, On the Road, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Structure, Vehicles, Wake Up, tagged altered photographs, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Jump-Offs, BlackBerry shots, building community through the Arts, cell phone photography, collaboration, collaborative photography, collaborative poetry, haiga, Poetry By Lotus, practices that sustain me, the practice of haiku, the practice of photography, the value of practice, the value of process, the value of the Arts, yearly practices on January 15, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Icicle Tumbleweed (Haiga) – 2/52, BlackBerry 52 – WEEK 2, Elk River, Minnesota, January 14th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Digital BlackBerry photograph altered in Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0, Font: Myriad Pro. I was driving on a rural Minnesota road in a blizzard this week, and snapped an ordinary BlackBerry [...]
The Sketchbook Project
Posted in 13 Moons, Art, Bones, Doodling, Dreams, Photography, Practice, Relationships, Structure, Vision, tagged altered journals, Art House Co-Op, building community through the Arts, deadlines, in-process art, journal art, journal as art gallery, journals, letting go, Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back, Liz Schultz, Moleskine art, Moleskines, The Brooklyn Art Library, the creative process, The Sketchbook Project, the value of the Arts on January 13, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Confidential (Open), Things That Changed Other Things, The Sketchbook Project, Musk Ox Moon, pages from the Moleskines of Liz Schultz & QuoinMonkey for The Sketchbook Project, January 2011, photos © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Portfolio Brand Water-Soluble Oil Pastels, Prang Metallic Markers, Uni-ball Signo 207 Rollergels, Letter Stamps, Ink, Caran D’Ache NeoColor [...]
BlackBerry 52 Collaboration
Posted in Art, Bones, Everyday Art, Gratitude, Haiku, Life, Nature, Photography, Place, Poetry, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Structure, Vision, Wake Up, tagged alotus_poetry, A~Lotus, BlackBerry 365, BlackBerry 52, BlackBerry 52 Jump-Offs, BlackBerry shots, building community through the Arts, cell phone photography, collaboration, collaborative photography, collaborative poetry, gratitude for community, haiga, I love my BlackBerry, Poetry By Lotus, practices that sustain me, red Ravine friends, the practice of haiku, the practice of photography, the value of photographs, the value of practice, the value of process, the value of the Arts, writing in community, yearly practices on January 11, 2011 | 51 Comments »
Bamboo Morning (Haiga), BlackBerry 52, Jump-Off – Week 2, January 10th 2011, photo © 2011 by alotus_poetry. All rights reserved. Medium: Digital collage created using MS PowerPoint 2007 & Adobe Photoshop CS2. Photo taken on BlackBerry. Poem first created on magnetic poetry board with word kits. I was in Ely, Minnesota on a hot July [...]
New Beginnings: Mandala For A New Year
Posted in Body, Bones, Dreams, Gratitude, Great Places To Write, Holding My Breath, Holidays, Home, Jugular, Life, Love, Mandalas, Personal, Place, Practice, Relationships, Seasons, Silence, Vision, Wake Up, Work, Writers, tagged Beginner's Mind, collaboration, continue under all circumstances, courage, creating mandalas, embracing the unknown, endings, fear & fearlessness, finding humility, Happy New Year!, hopes for the New Year, letting go, Letting Go of What Cannot Be Held Back, make positive effort for the good, new beginnings, not being tossed away, overcoming fear, red Ravine, sit-walk-write, sit-walk-write-fly, the creative process, the practice of art, the practice of red Ravine, the practice of writing, the work of blogging, writing friends, ybonesy & QuoinMonkey on January 1, 2011 | 39 Comments »
Mandala For A New Year, BlackBerry Shots, Golden Valley, Minnesota, January 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. A Downy pecks at the suet feeder. Black-eyed peas simmer in a vintage crock-pot in the kitchen. Temperatures hover around zero; it’s 3 degrees and windy. Gifted with unexpected time alone on New Year’s Eve, [...]
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