Three Muses--Why I create

I have been creating art, in many forms, since I can remember--paper and crayons, scissors and glue, fabric and thread, glass and clay, stone and string. Photoshop and digital camera...
To create is a drive, an aspiration, a need, a WONDER.  It's a way to explore, not only the many, many media available, but to explore the world, and an attempt to embrace and explain.
There is color and light, texture, words and images, broad strokes and delicate lines--the tools we use to explore and explain and interpret what we see--AND--what we feel.
I photograph, and often use those images as a jumping off point...
I create digital images out of color and light...
I (try to) tell stories and illustrate feelings...
I create mail art and send it into the real world...
I journal to explore my own soul...

Here are some of my favorite pieces, in no particular order

 

my photo, with texture frame added.

brushes and text and a googled image (I made it big so you can read the wonderful quotes.

my photo, altered. and a brush altered with rust

my photo with a texture

painted with PS brushes

one of the first images I collected, altered with textures.

an illustration of a New Year's word of intent.

mail art (Digital)

 

 

Exuberance and joy in our creations