Creating PLAYFUL BEINGS Tarot Deck – a peek behind the scenes
On February 29, 2024, I launched my first Kickstarter campaign! The goal is to self-publish my very first tarot deck, PLAYFUL BEINGS. In this post, I'm going to share some behind-the-scenes images of creating the PLAYFUL BEINGS tarot deck. It’s been a long, creative journey that all started in January 2023 when I ...
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Creative Interventions – Collage Self Portrait
At work, I like to organize a fun meeting called "Creative Interventions" to keep our creativity muscles in good shape. I got the idea from an article by Gil Gershoni. They are completely voluntary and we have about 4 meetings per season. We've done them since Fall 2020 while working from home and covered topics such ...
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COVID-19 Stay Home and Draw Week 3
Hi! Last week was my first "dark week" of COVID-19 isolation. But times of sad and frustration were also countered with joy and gratitude from a lot of check-ins with friends on Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. I also went on a shopping spree of local artists. I felt a little silly about it later but Billy ...
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2019 Book Club in Linocuts
This is a set of linocut postcards I made for my book club throughout 2019. Each represents a book we read and I mailed the the good old fashioned ...
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Mountain Reverence Card Set
Mountain design by Jonatan Billiau I'm a big fan of the handwritten note. Some say its a dying art but I KNOW there are lots of us out there keeping this intimate and personal way of connecting alive and well. A well-timed thank you card to a friend, colleague, or family member is incredibly powerful - a gift of self-care ...
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Perspective Study – Winter Building
One of the most fun and challenging parts about teaching myself how to watercolour paint are the skills I've discovered along the way. In the beginning, its easy (but also scary and exciting) to say, "I'm going to start watercolour painting!" Would I have even started if I truly knew that I was actually going to try to ...
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Finding Affordable Local Art for Your Home
As a child, visiting my Grandma B's house meant seeing naked ladies. In paintings on the walls. [caption id="attachment_2798" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Palma il Vecchio - de Badende Nymphenen Diana and Callisto. It probably was not this exact painting, but something similar...[/caption] She had a detailed yet ...
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