Rhonda J Flanagan

winter bird feeder…

White ::

thinking of India… Orange :: Green Journal entries for color continues with Tuesday and Wednesday.

Blue This is my blue journal page. I was blue, but now I am not. It always helps to create something…anything. Things ebb and flow and you move with the currents. The blues pass and you realize it is ok. You ask yourself why you were so blue in the first place and then… you…

I struggle with what is going on in the world today and swing between hope and despair about so much of it. It is hard to watch the news. I try to limit myself, but it is difficult. We all must do something and if your an artist you create…sometimes it seems so insignificant and…

Caught up with some journal entries and starting on the January projects. My visual journals are really coming along and these prompts make it nice. I usually keep a regular journal that I write in, but need to be more focused about the visual journal. It really helps to sketch ideas for paintings or other…

…there is not enough time in the day…I’ve been wanting to try and bake bread for some time now and I am glad that I finally did. How rewarding it is. I would like to learn to do it on a regular basis, but for now it is fun to do it occasionally. It didn’t…

Journal entry: portraits Working on portraits. I haven’t painted portraits in years… I try to silence the inner critic and just keeping working…it takes awhile to become comfortable again with the paints and the surface. In Art School we did nude models and worked with charcoal…that brings back a lot of memories.

I am painting with Acrylics and I find they dry very fast and before I know it my blobs have turned to rocks, but it feels so nice to be painting again after all the years on the computer. I just love the new collage techniques. I never really did much with collage and I…

contain peace fallen angel…