Category: creativity

  • Last week, a Townsend’s warbler showed up at our backyard bird feeder. The picture of this little guy comes from the All About Bird’s website, Cornell University’s ornithology lab, which is an excellent site for birding info. The Townsend’s warbler is a West Coast species, a bird about the size of a chickadee, and it…

  • Real-world making brings some kind of benefit to a writer. Using actual materials with actual tools provides a different creative boost. So I tell myself. Maybe it’s just writing avoidance. Anyway. The barrel chair. When I bought it more than a decade ago, I thought it was a leather chair. But it was something they…

  • Thread painting — using embroidery thread to create images — is a thing I’ve been trying the last three years. I’m starting to get the hang of it. The chickadees are DMC cotton thread on linen fabric dyed using Derwent Inktense pencils. To see the genius artists of this genre, check My Modern Met’s collection…