Tag: art
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A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand
Wednesday…and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I came upon a short story I wrote […]
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Miss May Ziadeh ii, My First Time with Charcoal
Miss May Ziadeh ii, charcoal on paper, by Jade Nicole Beals, Sept. 25, 2022. I found a set of pencils I liked at the store. I’d used charcoal sticks many years ago in a school art class, but never after that, had I drawn with charcoal pencils. After trying these, I completed my set with […]
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Drawing and Portraits, What Artists Might Like to Draw with
I love to paint, and I also found that I love to sketch on the go, and draw. Drawing, sketching, and painting all enhance each other and develop different artist skills, while each creates a different artwork or result. I drew May Ziadeh with pencil in my pocket sketchbook…I loved to do that, and I […]
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Decorating Writing Notebooks and a Petite Painting (Hidden for Now)
…I didn’t write today, but I got my notebooks ready with decor and labels. I write in these, a notebook for poetry and another for fiction, in pen by hand and may type up complete versions afterwards. (But now, look away, these are secret things.) Today, I didn’t do sitting meditation; I did walking meditation. […]
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A Pocketbook, A Teddybear, A Cup of Tea, An Old Book of Stories, A Paper…
I opened up my pocket sketchbook and viewed my pencil portrait of poet May Ziadeh; this teddybear sitting with me is very sweet; I read silently one story from Ancient Rome in that big book of stories from around the world I found at the library, about a man named Simonides whose greatest possession was […]
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Miss May Ziadeh
“Miss May Ziadeh.” A pencil drawing portrait in my pocketbook. September 2022, by Jade Nicole Beals. Born Feb. 11, 1886, May was a well-renowned poet, writer, and literary salon host who greatly valued art, beauty, kindness; equality, freedom, and education for women; nature, books, individuality and diversity, attention, deep friendship, and romantic love. (Click her […]
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New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest
It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day. […]
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My Wooden Easel and Art Supplies
I brought in my portable wooden easel tonight. I cleaned it well with natural soaps and water, cleaned, neatened bristles, and arranged all my brushes, and set up all paints inside. I also placed on my blank 9 x 12 canvas, deep cleansed and airing out the wooden easel with the cool open window. I […]
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Inspiring Spaces: An Amethyst Heart and Other Photos
On this blog, I may share a photo of a new arrangement or design in my home. It can refresh your mind to have things set nicely, and often it doesn’t require much addition, but making some space or arranging, for artists working at home or anyone. I tilted the amethyst gem crystal an upright […]
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Nature Plays The Same Notes
After I completed my painting the previous night, this afternoon, Friday, I went out for a celebratory walk in the bright sun. I found nature playing the same notes, blossoming with the colors that inspired my latest painting from imagination: Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window. In my art, the mood felt […]
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The Mansion Where May Ziadeh Lived and Her Refrain I’d Heard in My Heart Answered
November 26, 2021 (up to date: September 9, 2022) This is the Ziade Palace where poet and author May Ziadeh lived (b. 11 Feb 1886, d. 17 Oct. 1941) in Lebanon. The green gate lead up to the upper floor of the palace and it was said May had lived on the first floor with […]
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Peeko, and What We’re Up To
Update Thurs. 7 am: Peeko is feeling better! 🙂 He ate all of his late dinner and all of his breakfast today. … Today’s ‘one thing or two’ main project picked for the day and that’s all—in bold—among other things I may pick to do: *a fully physical day: yoga—extended hold of each stretch. eating […]
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Poetry Books: Goldenrod and The Book of Love, and More
The title poem of Goldenrod by Maggie Smith reminds me of my time as a very novice student of nature last year. And I’m not purposely or only picking gold-colored things for the blog :), but I won’t outright deny a gold-colored thing for variety either. My brief reflection of the book: Goldenrod by Maggie Smith (2021): […]
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Peeko Creates His Own Retreat
(photo found from yesterday; lighting a little brightened to match reality) Speaking of all my “pocket talk” with my pocket sketchbooks on the blog drawings of flowers and leaves out in the field: My cat Peeko added to his cat tower…and created his very own hammock! from beneath the seat of my chair, and it’s […]
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A New Pocket Sketch: ‘Fluffy Flowers’
I went back this morning to find the fluffy white flower but it wasn’t there; I’d remembered the spot had red and green wild berries and tiny purple flowers (I know not to eat them ;). I sketched most of this sitting on the grass, a spread out towel I brought beneath me, and I […]
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Pocket Sketches from the Field
I packed a small bag and sketched in my pocket sketchbook at La Salette shrine and retreat center yesterday evening. I learned about sketching, everything is practice, find shade first in the field for comfort if hot, pick something and don’t worry about variety for sharing with others after, sketch what you’d like at the […]
Blush of Dawn 