Gearing Up

The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity in my Etsy shop, An Eclectic Universe, as my Artist Brushes have been selling almost as fast I have…

There I go again!

There I go again! Picking up a new craft. I just can’t help myself…jack-of-all-trades, master of none. And you know what…I like it like that. I find myself getting bored…

Summertime Blues

“Sometimes I wonder What I’m a-gonna do But there ain’t no cure For the summertime blues.” Eddie Cochran…

So…what’s been happening?

Yikes! It’s been life forever since I last posted here!! And while my life has been busy it’s not like I haven’t had the time. No excuse really. I even…

Thoughts on 2019

As I look back on the year 2018 it was pretty much of a bust for me creatively. I seemed to struggle with everything project I approached…nothing seemed to thrill…

Solar

An area I’ve been exploring off and on since this spring is eco-dyeing…using things naturally found to create dye baths. I’ve tried boiling kettles full of avocado pits/skins, red cabbage,…

Sundays

Once upon a time…before I turned to mixed media and photography…I painted. I also was heavily into life drawing. Nothing like than working from a model…the human body is the…

Tales from the Allotment

Tucked into a tree encircled field, the Valley View Community Gardens where my little allotment resides offers a quiet refuge. Lately my trips have been few and far between. Our…

Seed Head

This past Sunday morning I was doing some light weeding and replanting in my allotment. At the back end of my space there’s a clump of weeds and grasses come up…

The Allotment

Way back in the 70’s…when I was just a young lad…an undergrad at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio…I had this plan to “go back to the land”. Live off the…

There Is This Tree…

There is this tree…greets me every time I come into the park with my dog. It’s not a particularly pretty park although it does sit beside the Little Miami River.…

A bookbinder I would like to be!

I have always been fascinated with the art of bookbinding. I love working with paper and glue to create things and putting books together has a special place in my…

It’s Just the Way It Is

Oops! I’m doing it again. Starting something up and then not following through. Like blogging. Like this blog. Didn’t mean to do that. I could blame it on “life” but…

Three of A Kind

I tend to work in threes. Call it a throw back to my days of teaching language arts…you know…”the rule of threes” or “the rule of sevens”. Always there. Sometimes…

Longing

While I might look on the month of February as a “disease”, the month of March here in the Cincinnati Ohio River valley is most definitely a “tease”! It gives…

Brushed

I’m always amazed how “life” can dictate what one’s path should be if you’re willing to listen. Sometime ago I created the three brushes seen in the featured image to…

Another Side of Me

When I’m not putting my cameras to use creating still-life imagery or landscapes, you’ll find me in my studio putting together mixed media collages and assemblages. I recently completed an…

February

“February is not a month, it’s a disease!” February. Some say it’s not a month but a disease. I call it a tease. Today the sun is out, temperatures in…

A New Start

Before I was on Instagram, Facebook, Flickr as well as other sites… I was blogging. In fact I was quite good at using FrontPage….remember that software?….creating classroom websites for myself…