Craft Your Creative Life – Join me, artist and author e’Layne Kelley, in paradise for an all-inclusive Magic of Mixed Media Collage and Soul Renewal Retreat, creating a Wild Women Memory Keeper, empowerment card deck, art journaling, a winged heart and more. Hacienda Mosaico is dripping with charm. From the moment you walk through the […]
At the workshop, each artist will be given a wood shape that with be collaged and she will become your Wild Woman Memory Keeper (as shown in the above middle picture). You’ll receive an email about special items you might want to bring to adorn your Memory Keeper. Our Memory Keepers become a visual representation […]
From time to time it’s fun to create outside the box, so to speak, and hearts are a perfect way to add some spice to any design. The heart symbolizes love and affection and a winged heart symbolizes a joyous and free spirited nature…evoking more of an exuberant feeling than creating on a rectangle shape!!! […]
Confucius said, “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” Why then do some people see beauty in every person and in every situation and others don’t. “Seeing” beauty is not just a matter of using our eyes. It’s also a practice of living with our heart wide open. It is my belief what we […]
The challenge to create a fashion inspired mixed-media art piece celebrating the love of style motivated me to take action. I had recently taken a series of photographs of two stunningly beautiful friends in the art park I manage. The backdrop of industrial buildings, rusted and patinaed over time, was the perfect canvas for this […]
Simple pleasures are the millions of tiny miracles that take our breath away. Gazing at the fiery brilliance of the sun melting into the horizon, the smell of fresh cut hay, the sound of a light rain hitting a tin roof or the invigorating feeling of jumping into a cool mountain spring of a hot […]
I just received an email asking where Creativity-it’s in our DNA-Part 2 was…and I just found a couple of the paragraphs below written over a year ago in a my blog drafts. I have no idea where I was going with this entry…but I’ll pick up where I left off. Last week (which is now a year […]
The prompt to create art with spring as the inspiration spoke to me. After the stillness of winter, spring stirs with magic and promise. We say goodbye to winter’s early setting sun and inner solitude. We welcome the returning light, long shadows, children’s laughter and unfurling lime green ferns. The landscape turns from shades of […]
This is published in the March/April 2015 Somerset Studio…my mom is the babe on the right. How hard can it be to keep up a blog. Apparently for me it’s difficult!!! It’s been forever since I’ve made an entry. The end of last year was certainly emotionally rough. Lora and I did had a beautiful […]
Many of us begin our creative journey with trepidation and uncertainty. We think other people are creative but harshly judge our abilities. Slowly we begin to get our sea legs although we know we haven’t quite found our unique artistic voice. Our creative exploration is a continually unfolding journey. We walk an enticing labyrinth of […]
