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This is a response I wrote to a friend who wanted some ideas and advice on art. I thought it would make a good blog.
"Color wouldnt be needed, just a little darker beige than the backround color. But if you want a color, lavender or violet would be nice.
What Ive found is the proper anything doesnt matter. Tooth, grade of paper, medium, or even mixing mediums that you wouldnt even think of mixing. If your paper buckles, you can still work with it and it will have a different effect. You could use salt, stamp over it, or remove bits of color. If the paper has more tooth than you want, you can paint under the pencil or over it with watercolor or acrylic. There is no limits to the combinations. This is a good way to use up stuff you have laying around the house that you would otherwise throw away. Approach it like a child would with the spirit of experimentation. They dont know what the "correct" way is. They just do it.
Your Tabby drawing is not a waste. You could highlight parts with acrylic paint or frame bits of it, the parts you really like, to make a collage or frame it as a miniature.
One way of getting yourself out of overblending is to set the alarm to go off at 1 hour (or whatever time) and stop work on your piece. It will do 2 things. It will teach you to work faster and more efficient. And it will make you stop and examine what really needs to be done after living with it for awhile.
I havent been doing anything for months because of "the big move". It probably wont happen for even a few more. When Im ready again, I will let my whimsical spirit lead me.
I like what Ive written here and I havent blogged for a long time, so you have helped me too, to write something for the blog. Its so wonderful how artists can inspire one another"!

Am I Psychic?

Last night something really shocking happened. I heard a hound dog howl loudly right next to me. Obviously, what made it shocking was that there was no hound there. There is no hound in the neighborhood. And I know beyond a doubt what a hound sounds like, as I had two afghan hounds who howled just like that. I also was stone cold awake. I have been really upset lately over leaving our afghans graves in the back yard here. I had promised them that this was the last stop and we would all be together forever here at Gardener Park. But the bank took Gardener Park away from me, and I have to leave my precious dogs graves behind. Now Im not saying this is why I heard that howl, but could it be? Possibly. In my life, I have heard things at times of great change or danger, a clarion call so to speak. It certainly got my attention and has me wondering whats coming down.
OK, I am somewhat psychic, and at certain times downright psychic. I have amazed myself at what was told to me. I believe its not me, but an outside energy needing to tell me something. You can call that energy anything you want, angels, ghosts, God, I dont know. But incredible it is! And I assure you Im sane. Ive been certified sane.
This leads me to the subject of my art and artists. I usually express these experiences in my art, and Im sure many other artists do also. I think we are just generally by nature, more sensitive to subtle energys in our environment then others. We feel this need to make it manifest in this so called "real" world for others to experience. I use dreams as inspiration as well, because sometimes they make a great impact on my life. Its exciting, and I just have to tell someone, in the form of visual communication. I have found that the viewer of my art will usually experience that energy, and that really makes me happy. I have managed to be an interpreter and ambassador of the other side. How cool is that? Ive always wished I was the kind of psychic that could sit down and read for total strangers, helping them in very deep ways. But this is my gift to myself, as well as to give to others... my art. For this I am truly thankful.