May 28, 2025
Discovery
Who Knew?
For weeks,
months,
to no good effect,
I tell myself
I want
to spend more time
making art
in the maker space
I call my studio.
Turns out
the only way
to spend more time
making art
in the maker space
I call my studio
is to enter
the maker space
I call my studio
and make art.
where I land with my art journal exploration8 x 8″; Prismacolor Nupastel layered on top of acrylic
2025
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Note: Today’s “30 minutes” become more than 30 again and fall into flow. First, I play with another well-let’s-see-what-happens poem. Then, I play with an idea from another Instagram reel that crosses my path. As you can see, my real is decidedly not Instagram’s reel hahaha!, but it spurs me to try my hand with Prismacolor Nupastel firm pastel color sticks whose provenance in my studio I don’t know and whose properties offer up much to learn as I turn my attention to editing the visual language of this art journal exploration. Grand adventure, this entering the maker space I call my studio and mucking about.
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13 responses to “Discovery”
Oh yeah, I get into that conundrum also—the ol’ body in motion stays in motion conundrum. I remember when my kids were little, the challenge to interrupt whatever they were doing so as to get them into the bathtub for a bath and, then, once in, the challenge to interrupt the bath and get them out! Much the same thing with the studio haha!
Happy to know that my makings give you sparks of inspiration. Would love to see YOUR makings—do you have a website or instagram page where I could poke around?
Love all of this! We do need to at least get in the door of our studios to make art…most of the time. But I do believe we are making art in our heads and hearts when we are out there in the world or exploring Instagram reels.
Your poem is just a delight…and where you landed with the instagram inspiration is just as delightful! Don’t you love it when 30 minutes falls into flow!
MaryAnn, yes, yes, yes to your expansion of my implication about where art gets made—in addition to making art in our maker spaces, we ARE also making art in our heads and hearts when we are out there in the world or exploring Instagram reels.
Thank you for sharing your delight in both poem and painting : )
I DO always love when sticking my toe in the water leads to my falling into the gift of flow.
Lola! You have lit up my afternoon with your menu of possible answers to “but what is it?” with regard to the “wild adventurous painting” I created. To your list I add: the light at the end of the tunnel? a near death experience?
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Thanks, too, for laughing at the self-evident truth of my poem : )
There’s my sign! Haha. Exactly Dotty. And high five to you!
I need to do that very thing, and yet each day I am distracted. Desk sitting empty and clean. Too clean. LOL.
I love where you landed. Reminds me of looking up at the night sky in wonder. Makes me think of the wonderful art in children’s books. Two things I always found irresistible. xoxo
I really had to pause to evaluate and brainstorm, and I am so grateful to have figured out how to reenter a space of holding my creative time front and center. I’ve been on a roll for two weeks and am fired up : )
This art journal exploration looks more vivid and realized in the photo than in my journal. I may try redoing the exercise.
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It’s so clear how much fun and energy this new adventure is giving you!
Yay! I’m energized even further by your notice and appreciation! This new adventure is for sure giving me much fun energy : )
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