Creating the Color Yellow
When Spring arrives, my thoughts turn more and more to the colors outside, rather than the deep memory colors from midwinter. The sun, the spring
Light in the Dark Moon
Light. I have been doing a lot of thinking about light and darkness, contemplation, placements, and the moon, particularly in the closing of this balsamic
Into the Dyepot!!!
One of my favorite moments when I am creating is the point at which I prepare to lower the piece into the water. The clamps
Have you ever heard of an underground forest?
Underground Forest. Photo credit Rachel Sussman Oldest Living Things. 13,000 year old. Dwarf mobola(and others) Latin parinari capensis These woody plants hide underground!!! This plant
Risk Boosts Creativity
Blank canvas, piles of colored cloth, stacks of brightly colored thread, a beautiful piece of 22×30 200 pound Arches paper—even a delectable pile of fresh
Right Brain Left Brain
Sometimes events are so simple that they become complicated. It is the second day of the New Year. After a respite from all computer work,
Plan:Antiplan
Plan/Antiplan/unplan/Time I find myself, in this preholiday stillness, with large piles of unrelated projects. Bills to pay, digital files, website planning, new workshops planned for
Figuring stuff out is Weird
So you might wonder why there’s a shovel here. Imagine if you had all this snow and you didn’t have a shovel. What if there
First day of November
First day of November — may seem as though it’s a time of ending as we see the leaves falling and the grass turning brown
New Beginnings
Sometimes you just have to step back and start small. Inch by inch, color changes are laid out on a grid. Precision stitching allows meditative
Creative Color
I have not written for quite a while. At the beginning of 2021, I was publishing on Medium. I still plan to keep that up.
Artist Struggles- Ken LeBaron
This journal entry from my father is such a personal story of an artist’s discouragement; it is from the artist journal of my late
Jacquard Textiles – Early MornSquam
This Jacquard fabrics was created from photographs of Great Island at Squam Lake in New Hampshirite in the early morning. First I photographed, then painted
Time Scheduling Being in the World on a Spring Day
The water droplets on this iris bud appeared at 5:30 last night. I am certain that this bud existed precisely as this photo captured it
Watermelon video
I love molten aluminum, ever since I watched the aluminum pours at RISD as a graduate student. So when I came across this video, I