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What I Used In The Ol’ Sketchbook

Apr 15, 2013

Thank you so much to everyone that offered such a warm response to my sharing of my latest Moleskine sketchbook.  I am so very touched by all the sweet comments. Plus, I also received a lot of emails from people asking me about the materials I used in my sketches.  So I thought I’d share today just exactly what materials I was experimenting and playing around with! That I feel is the big key–to experiment and play! For a few of my sketches done at the beginning of my sketchbook I simply used a black colored Bic pen.  I don’t…

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Inspired By 21 SECRETS!

Apr 12, 2013

  Journal spread by Wendy Burgess–inspired by Tammy Garcia’s 21 SECRETS workshop. Journal cover by Carolyn Coyle–inspired by Rae Missigman’s 21 SECRETS workshop. Journal spread by Marci Glenn–inspired by Cathy Bluteau’s 21 SECRETS workshop.   Journal spread by Amanda Knapp Melkowits–inspired by Danielle Daniel’s 21 SECRETS workshop.   Journal spread by Lucie Cotting–inspired by Cathy Bluteau’s 21 SECRETS workshop. There is so much exciting art journaling happening in this year’s 21 SECRETS!! Above is a peek at some of the student work being inspired by this amazing line-up of teachers!! 21 SECRETS is a self-guided experience–you have full access to…

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Why I Am Doing This

Dec 6, 2012

Last night I had a really great phone conference with my amazing FEARLESS Painters in IGNITE. And during our rich conversation on education and passion and finding our element-one of my FEARLESS Painters, who is a seasoned home schooling parent, told us that some home schooling parents pour their hearts into escaping the institutional education system only to later measure their children’s growth using the same system construct that they have so passionately shunned.  A great example would be a homeschooling student that takes the SATs to prove that their homeschooling actually “worked”. Our discussion was not about homeschooling or…

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