Tag: creative process

• Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters

  

  Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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• I Started Over, A New Short Story, and It’s Completed!

  But you will not read it in this post. 🙂 I was writing a secret short story as a gift to be given to someone (no one knows but me) at the upcoming Christmas gathering with my family in New York… The one I started writing the other day I was not too happy with, […]

  12/22/2022 12:36 pm

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• One Question

  

  —What do you enjoy besides painting or writing or the fine arts? One thing: I really like fashion; I will need to find an outfit for a “Glam Christmas party” I received an invite to, and casual fashion is fashion too; I’d not heard of an event like that. But I like it. I got […]

  12/11/2022 5:53 pm

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• “Dream Catcher”

  “Dream Catcher” by Jade Nicole Beals –for Kira hear me read the poem: You are a few years younger than me, and you’d already felt much wiser. I remember when you sent me a poem; I thought, is this by William Shakespeare? It can’t be for me? It is so good. It was in the […]

  12/09/2022 4:25 pm

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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• I Finish My Falling Apart Copy of Jane Eyre Before Midnight

  

  (photo and content update, “the morning after”) …I started with a short paint session, and I have the first part of my idea started well while the rest of the canvas looks in messy distress, but I was able to stop in time to just paint a little and also complete Jane Eyre (1847) while […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but […]

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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• Pocket Peeko

  

  Pocket Peeko by Jade Nicole Beals, graphite pencil drawing November 18, 2022 in pocket sketchbook. In the meantime, as I’ve been waiting to receive my bigger-sized drawing paper pad, I created this pocket Peeko in a pocket sketchbook, a sketchbook I’ve almost completed. 🙂 When I showed Peeko my completed drawing, he looked calmly at […]

  11/19/2022 11:05 am

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• NaNo More

  I just got in from a walk a little while ago before I had lunch. It’s literary salon Tuesday :), I wrote more of my novel draft this morning; I find the Word Count actually is very helpful for pacing. In a long work of fiction, events can happen more slowly than one may be […]

  11/15/2022 1:27 pm

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• Music to Walk to and More, Two Songs I Am Listening To

  I walk to this 🥰😍🎶🌤🌅 another one 🙂 for today, writing! I want it I do it 📓I’ll read the book; I’ll write one too😊☺️😊 Great beat to walk to 🎶🥁😊🕯…✒️💕 Jade

  11/13/2022 3:08 pm

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• November Plans: My Own NaNoWriMo, My Art Show Booked in Advance, and Relaxation

  

  As for my plans for November, I am painting for my next Art Show, focusing on one canvas awhile: the weekend, Fri – Sun, June 2 – 4. I plan to sketch some outdoor scenes in the places I am and paint them on canvas as one idea for type of subjects. I am choosing […]

  11/01/2022 9:34 am

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• Paintings, Too, Can Be Untitled

  Yesterday I added more to my short story in my fiction stories handwritten notebook (first one in awhile.) It begins with dialogue that also hints at setting, and so far, there are many trees (literally)…and a question. I usually plan the title of a story or poem when finished, but paintings aren’t always titled in […]

  10/15/2022 2:15 pm

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• 3 in One

  2. The bright autumn trees view in my living-room makes me feel that my graphite-pencil drawings must be on a pause for now, that the trees demand color. I will pick the pencils up again; I want to draw again sometime. I have a painting started on canvas, worked one day at The Gallery on […]

  10/15/2022 2:02 pm

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• A ‘Time Out’ that I Like

  …I find that when I am in the height of creativity and posting on the blog, often what may soon follow may be me tearing up the blog and throwing the posts around to make it even better…and these bright autumn trees in the living-room window can really stir me and add extra excitement anytime, […]

  10/14/2022 4:21 pm

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• And Now I’ll Tell You Some Life Stories Instead

  

  October 12, 2022 But the secret I‘ve meant is not telling exciting, odd things, precious to you to people or to those at the time are not up for exciting, odd things, even if they’re not that odd and make sense… As in, give them a chance, you never know who might like to hear […]

  10/12/2022 3:38 pm

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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 […]

  09/27/2022 12:06 pm

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• Open Windows

  I had accidentally spilled paint years ago on the wooden easel I’d had packed away and maybe another chemical too (Spills are safely cleaned off the surface right away). I decided not to keep it with the fumes. But I got my blank canvas, supplies, imagination, and many open windows…:)

  09/16/2022 2:10 pm

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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 […]

  09/15/2022 8:02 pm

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• A Petite Canvas: An Abstract Painting in the Making and Two Other Art Forms Calling

  I am working on a small (9 x 12) canvas for my baby nephew to display in his nursery; today is the second day I am working on it. I’ve felt most drawn to abstract art now, which is a spontaneous art for me, and I found I like it best done with a calm, […]

  09/15/2022 3:27 pm

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• Three Lessons and No Painting, Yet

  * Three Lessons I Learned Today with Art

  09/15/2022 12:06 pm

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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 […]

  09/14/2022 3:54 pm

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• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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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. […]

  09/11/2022 12:28 pm

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• Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window

  

  “Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window” by Jade Nicole Beals Sept. 8, 2022. 11 L x 14 W sides painted, signed and dated on back by me. I’d painted the back canvas on this one with dark brown and white paint: my way though is to leave the back bare, unpainted overall […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

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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 […]

  09/09/2022 12:00 pm

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• A Paintbrush and a Novel

  I will begin writing my first novel and painting for my next art show I’d like to have, so the blog pace will slow (of course it needs to ;), but the site will be open, about painting and my novel in progress, and more.—But I am currently writing a short story, and I may […]

  09/01/2022 12:06 pm

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• About The Flower

  I was happy to find the fluffy flower; I was also a little sad because the wind kept blowing its feathers and it was a very shady spot with little light and more than enough heat and humidity. I may go back to the spot today. I worked on my painting in progress and will […]

  09/01/2022 8:32 am

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• My Replenish and Restore Index Cards—for when things are very exciting & stimulating—even if good

  

  I wrote this for Artists or Authors or anyone designing a schedule, and if not doing that daily, some ideas for relaxation are here for anyone. I thought of this idea today, as I can be very excited by creativity…information…ideas…comments to and from…on my screen, and then become stimulated (‘tho often starts in a good […]

  08/19/2022 5:27 am

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• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

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• Wildflower Field with Fragrance and Dance— I Love Like This

  

  ^ I love: like this…Love: like this. (my photo of a wildflower field tonight) I worked on my still life painting today. It’s midway in progress (maybe)…It’s an imaginary room and arrangement that came to my mind. The room appears with my brush, the flowers, too; it is funny how I can’t tell if I’m […]

  08/09/2022 5:36 pm

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• I Was Trying to Paint a Room, but the Mood Came First

  

  🎨paint on hands, not so bad. My art in progress on table. The painting I’ve been working on is coming along at The Gallery, a Sunday of realizing I was trying to see this physical room I’d imagined, to paint it how it appeared, but today I found that starting with the mood and rich […]

  07/25/2022 12:21 pm

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• As I Was Thinking About the Beginning…

  

  …of the very short story I am beginning to write, I’d found what may be the ending to it, and then I added to that line, and sat here with it in mind.

  07/22/2022 4:01 pm

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• A Soothing Space

  

  My bedroom library retreat is complete. 😊 I took things away that felt crowded, then rearranged the things I had kept (and felt good being near) before adding anything new over time. Over the winter, I readjusted the bookcase myself with a hammer, screws, and a screw remover to heighten the shelves to look more […]

  07/21/2022 8:28 am

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• A Portrait of Peeko, Reading The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James as Much as I Want To

  

  “What would you like to say to your fans?” I said to Peeko, and snapped this photo.😊🐱^ * The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is so funny. I’d found myself more irritable overall though when I was following strictly the schedule for the Goodreads group, Old Books, New Readers, and I thought I […]

  07/12/2022 7:27 pm

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• Rose Honey in Poetry by Christina Rossetti

  A city plum is not a plum;A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;A party rat is not a rat;A sailor’s cat is not a cat;A soldier’s frog is not a frog;A captain’s log is not a log. * A rose has thorns as well as honey,I’ll not have her for love or money;An iris grows so straight […]

  07/12/2022 2:32 pm

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• Memorable Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady

  

  (My cat Peeko napping with the lounge-clothing I’d laid out ready to put on after my bath that day.) I am reading The Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James with a Goodreads book group. It’s great so far, especially the dialogue; I’d like to share a couple of quotes that stood out to […]

  07/09/2022 2:31 pm

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