Mixed Media: I Love How You Love Me

It’s funny how the papers you put down on a canvas can influence you when you paint it. For this one, I really liked the music papers to “I Love How You Love Me.” I also had some heart scrapbook paper, and a page from a Robert Browning poem.

Mixed Media: Superhero Glasses

I just picked up some 10 x 10 canvasses at Michael’s this week, and couldn’t wait to break into them. I started by covering the canvas with some different papers, book pages, and music sheets. Then I added some stamps and the beginnings of the face.

Mixed Media: Beautifully Unique

The mixed media picture I’ll show you today is a perfect example of if you don’t like it the first time, keep layering. I’ll show you what I mean. I started with a few papers over canvas. I’m using some of the house patterns from the books I bought at the library sale, some scrapbook [...]

Mixed Media: Not That Girl

Remember those canvases we talked about recently? I covered two different canvases with different but similar papers, and last week I showed you the first picture I did, and today I’ll show you the second. As you can see, both sets of canvases had some patterns, music papers, and pages from a book on palmistry. [...]

Mixed Media: I’ll Live the Life

Last week I got a question about layers when it comes to mixed media, and this week I’m continuing with that. Once again, here are the backgrounds I started. I’ll be working on one of these for this picture.     After I had all the background papers on, I covered the canvas with a [...]

This Man I Love at the Artful Crafter

Eileen at the Artful Crafter gave me a nice surprise when she used one of my poems (“This Man I Love” which is in New and Selected Poems) in a greeting card she made by hand for her husband.

Feathered Quill Reviews New and Selected Poems

Just got a wonderful review for New and Selected Poems from Feathered Quill. I was really blown away by this review.

Creating a Poetry Book Cover

I’ve written three poetry books so far, and in each case, I’ve painted the graphic for the covers, which has been a fun part of the process. You know people do judge a book by its cover, right?

Father’s Eyes Receives Editor’s Choice Award

I’m happy to announce that my latest poetry book, Father’s Eyes, has received the 2008 Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice Award for poetry. Allbooks Review Editor Shirley Roe said of the winning books: It was a difficult decision from the hundreds of books reviewed in 2007 but these books shone above the rest. Allbooks reviews books [...]

This I Believe

Just found out my This I Believe essay is still second out of now 31,000 entries! That’s after a year and a half on the system. THANK YOU to everyone who has read this essay and made it so popular. The essay has been read by over 36,000 people. Amazing!

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