Author: Ingrid Murray
-
Hey, Autumn
•
Somehow, suddenly, it’s autumn. Every year, I say the same thing — and every year, the seasons pass by more quickly than the year before. It’s still mostly summer-like here in Baltimore: the days are hot (though less humid and the sky a brilliant, cloudless blue) and evenings are still…
-
Greens & Neons
•
Recent mixed media art journal pages featuring a variety of papers, acrylic paints and inks, tempera paint, oil pastel, paint marker, graphite, and colored pencil.
-
Let Me Introduce Myself
•
If you’ve followed me and my art online for a while, you’ll know that I’m a self-taught artist and writer. I was creative from an early age, writing stories, building imaginary worlds, performing onstage, and drawing. In a high school art class I discovered the Altered Books Workshop, which introduced…
-
Art Journaling 101
•
Art journaling is, at its simplest, creating visual art in a book. Also called an artist sketchbook, visual diary, or art diary, art journals have been used by artists for centuries for a variety of purposes.
-
Bird by Bird
•
I just finished reading Anne Lamott’s insightful (and wickedly funny) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.