I don’t particularly need to be certain of anything. All I need is wisdom to turn uncertainty to creativity, to joy, to calm.
Much gratitude to you all for the heart-warming reaction to my first published book One Artist Journal. It came in abundance via generous blog hop participants, blog hoppers, FB, personal Emails, and...
I’ve been posting my journal entries on my blog over the last four years, piling them up one above the other. I wanted so much to take them back to their original tactile state: the paper, the ...
The fruit of burdens and dreads of today. At times that’s all I have to offer my pages, my online journal, myself, and you. Gotta be honest about it.
Not at all times.
Allow me to say something in-between.
…I think that it’s all about unearthing our own individual ways. It’s most valuable to open ourselves up to seeing as many of them as possible as long as it leads to clear ways, one...
Just came back from Artfest in Port Townsend, Washington. My 13 year old daughter Maya joined me this time. Beautiful change is always evident when teaching at an art retreat. But this time more than...
Physiological or mental, it’s all the same. It’s carried out by or taking place in my mind.
In The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery tells: “…after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked t...
“Listen closely…can you hear it? Can you hear the voices? Thoughts, insights, confessions from the creative community sharing ideas, trading secrets, venting frustrations; asking and answ...
As I was finishing these journal pages, emerging were the faces of Vincent van Gogh and an unknown Mayan person. If I’d be simplistic for a moment, to me, one represents living solely in the co...
In some places in the world it’s my birthday today. I am 53 years old. No one is going to take it away from me. I am standing tall and proud when realizing my tremendous beautiful and complex e...
Creating vs. producing. Truth vs. pose. Own voice vs. special effects. Necessity vs. luxury. Journey vs. destination. Got to teach the kids to create rather than art-make.
Heart exposure and intimacy are indivisible and should be always exhibited in the process of creation.
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Starting my year strong and ready for what it will bring to me. Last weekend I came back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where I was teaching alternative portraiture, deepening my view that visual jour...
According to the Mayan calendar the world we know will end on December 21, 2012. I don’t believe that but I do believe I should treat it as if it’s my last year here on earth. I’d l...
It’s not too late to gift yourself a week (January 8-14, 2012) of creative renewal in Hacienda Mosaico, a most magical place in sunny Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A holistic adventure, that’...
My name, Or-ly, literally means Light-To-Me in Hebrew. I sometimes forget. I carry my name nonchalantly, day to day. It basically means: I have light. It’s true, but I sometimes forget. We all ...
For soul’s sake, just quiet that quarrelsome mind when approaching the page. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind...
…of Jill Berry’s book Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking is: Marcia with her words: “Plans and Order” A random number generator was used to pick the ...
To me maps always represented permission to dream, to wonder, and wander. They gave me a sense of belonging, while revealing the longing for new worlds, beautiful, exotic…better worlds! They al...
Wake up or you may be late to create your new emergence.
An unfamiliar and gripping process it was to scout for tiny little visual worlds within my, in comparison, much larger journal pages for the purpose of designing 100 Moo mini cards. I was gently movi...
Sometimes too many tools, supplies, and materials, hinder me from finding myself in my art. Sometimes multitude of ideas, concepts, and grand plans, muffle my voice. Sometimes having fewer options ma...
Last Friday, on 11/11/11 my son turned 16. He of all people teaches me to be with others and not lose myself in them, not in their words, nor their silences. Every day he teaches me that realities of...
Cooler weather has definitely set in. Don’t wait to make your winter vacation plans. Start off the new year amidst the tropical garden setting of Hacienda Mosaico, an expansive, artful retreat ...
I LOVE this quote that was shared with me by a friend a few days ago, “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness” by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was then that I decided that my next post w...
A melting pot of humans of the same kind. A source of emotional stimulation. A vessel of boundless artistry. A chance of expansion. An example of humanity of the best kind. A grand opportunity to be.
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