Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Continuing the project I started with DIY Abstract Art, my final decision (thanks for all your comments) was to attempt transferring the watercolor images to fabric or canvas for an unframed look. Since part of my motivation was to explore a new technique, I would like to share some of the lessons I’ve learned during […]
Today, one year ago, it was supposed to be our first morning waking up in Salt Lake City. We didn’t anticipate the pussiness and imminent meltdown of one of our key drivers: Me.
Part 1 of this short chronicle ended with Joey and I starting a three-day road trip beginning in Dallas, Texas. Surprisingly, that day […]
Exactly one year ago, the most feared and anticipated day of 2005 finally came… We had been preparing for it for months: Selling our beloved home in Dallas (not a painless process thanks to our buyers’ amateur realtor), finding a new home in Salt Lake City (thanks to our great real estate agent in Utah), […]
For a long time, Joey has been nagging me to create some art to decorate our home’s naked walls… See, our previous house was so open that we didn’t have enough walls to hang my paintings. Now, in need for two separate offices, and in preparation for a baby (not yet conceived) which may trigger […]
OH DEAR GOD!
Please excuse me if you think my honest and barbaric feelings make me a shallow evil horrible woman, but I still don’t know my (future) children, and the perspective of suffering this transformation really upsets me, worries me, and almost makes me think it twice. I hope this is not received as an […]
Not to discredit and harshly criticize any of the current themes available at Wordpress.com, but to tell the truth, several weeks ago Joey and I had the hardest time finding an adequate theme for Joey’s blog. What I mean by “adequate”:
1. Content is easy to read:
Colors, font sizes, page width and other design aspects make […]
According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, the average person (I assume: American) will make more than three career changes during the span of his/her working life.
So. Here you are, wondering where the passion went, why your job doesn’t satisfy you the way it used to, why you can’t get yourself to apply […]
Although these irresistibly indecent proposals are based on real events, their specific details have been altered, added or left out for dramatic purposes. All characters in this post are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, tyrants, and sweatshops, living or dead is purely coincidental.
1. The typical job posting
We are looking for an energetic individual to […]
If it wasn’t because of those three happy ladies who got on the train with a yard sculpture, I would have never known that the Utah Arts Festival was going on this weekend in downtown Salt Lake City. We went yesterday… Too early to see any performing art, but late enough to catch the full […]
While Joey is currently consumed by the thought of replacing a large percentage of our randomly yellow grass with large beds of water-wise plants (i.e. xeriscaping), I am experiencing some kind of weird devious urge to grow plants. Not only grow them… The actual urge is to grow plants from seeds or pits, and bonsai […]
For a long time I’ve shied away from attempting to create what I consider “difficult” vector art. I think the tool is hard to master, and the thought of it used to remind me of my very old failed attempts to convince recruiters that I could become a consultant… With the difference that as bad […]
If I have ever painted a decent watercolor portrait, any of its goodness can mostly be attributed to the lessons I’ve learned from “Painting Watercolor Portraits That Glow” by Jan Kunz.
I’m not a professional artist, so whenever I paint I need photographic material as a reference. One of the key lessons I got from understanding […]
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