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Art and Creativity Journal: Beach Tripping

Last week, we finally got away for a trip to the "big" beach, out on Washington's Pacific coast. These trips to the Pacific coast matter because the stones

Art and Creativity Journal: "Big" Beach Trip Upcoming!

Although I have sporadically mentioned that I could really use some high quality stones to paint on — stones that are better than what we can find here on our local

Life is a Beach!

If you have been following these pages for any time, you might remember that I long derived part of my living from being pretty much a "professional

Art and Creativity Journal: A Quick Beach Trip!

As I have mentioned, I was getting somewhat need of new ”raw materials” to paint stones on. So, when my wife decided to go use our neighborhood swim center, I tagged

Art and Creativity Journal: Etsy Store Redesign Taking Shape

Well, it finally feels like I am experiencing a bit of "forward movement," here. After a bit of uncertainty and doubt, and some deliberation, I am moving

Art and Creativity Journal: Slowly Muddling Along!

While the summer creative doldrums seem to linger around here, I have slowly taken to forcing myself to sit down and do something creative every day. Actually painted

Art and Creativity Journal: Not Exactly an Admission of Defeat!

A couple of days ago, I wrote a post that seemed a bit like an admission of defeat in the face of art and creativity. I've been thinking a fair bit about that and

I was a Professional Beachcomber, Part 2: A Lot of Work!

Continuing on from yesterday's post! Now it's important for me to preface this next segment our story with the reality that there is a lot more to being a professional

Once Upon a Time, I Was a Professional Beachcomber! Part 1 — The Beginning

Yes, such a thing really is possible. But to explain the workings of how I got into such a situation we need to go into a little bit of background first. This is

Fun and frolics down on Seafield Beach 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hello Hello Hivians You might wonder what the fluff am I doing showing a picture, well two actually of magpies when I talked about fun and frolics on Seafield Beach.

Beachcombing With The Reflections

It was a fine cold morning and the intertidal zone is visible due to low tide. I immediately went home to fetch my wife so we can have a stroll along the exposed

A quiet morning Beach Combing Cape Cod & sketching Emily Dickinson

I beachcomb almost every day. When it's not covered in snow (and sometimes when if it's not too deep) I love to walk our little shore to garner my treasures. It's

Art & Creativity: Better Tides Mean More Beach Trips to Look for Paintable Rocks!

What's in a rock? As a more or less ”professional” rock painter I probably take that question more seriously than most people. The thing is, if you look at the tiny

Chopping wood for winter and watching the snow fall from our seaside home

Tho, as I write thise, the snow has quiet gone it was magical when it came. It was that soft magical snow that feathers down when the temps just hover in and out

A walk in the field and looking at hardy Beach plants

A short video for a #wednesdaywalk in the icy Winter air. Tho we've had a mixed bag of weather, with days being like Spring only to have the next plunge deep into

A New Moon Tide walk and then the snow came

Today's vlog has us relishing in the New Moon tide. I love both full and new moon tides as they are extremes: you get the highest and lowest tides thus. It often

A walk on the harbor and to the dock to garner drawing inspiration

Tho we've now snow on the ground, just last night, I thought I'd take you on a walk from just a few months prior. The Autumn day was warm and green and seems magical

A quiet chilly walk on the sea and the call of the eider and the loon

We've had a mixed bag of weather, which is par for the course here in coastal New England. As I hear others speak of 'odd weather' I just smile as one day of freeze

Icy Frost on a New England shore : Making Plans when others change

ON an icy day, not too long past, I was contemplative. Well, to be fair, I am that most days, but I had recently had a bit of trouble with my new vlog camera and

Once Upon a Time, I had a very "Different" Business!

I spent most of yesterday tidying up the space I use for art and creativity... and pretty much putting it aside. It's not that I am no longer going to do things