Do-Something-Everyday: A Peek into My Studio

Do-Something-Everyday: Week 2, day2

The new shelves from Pier1 arrived today giving me much needed storage space. Last summer we converted the breezeway into a studio space. It got new windows, new flooring and a dry wall. It is a three-season space; as it does not have heater it cannot be used in winter. Rest of the year it is cool and cozy.

Desk with the inspiration board.

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Do-Something-Everyday: Soft Alphabet Book

Do-Something-Everyday: Week 2, Day 1

Something I made using John Butler's pre-designed fabric that also came with instructions. The illustrations are pretty good and finished book was the right size and softness for a 3-year old child.

Do-Something-Everyday: Coloring Pages

Do-Something-Everyday: Day 7

A while ago, I indulged in my own adult coloring exercises with Johanna Basford's Secret Garden. Here are some the finished pages:

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Do-Something-Everyday: Woodburned Yoga Verse Art Bangles

Do-Something-Everyday: Day 6

I wrote Sanskrit verses on these hambabalud wood bangles using wood burning pen. There is one square and one round bangle. I added color to one bangle and the other one polished with beeswax orange oil polish.

Do-Something-Everyday: Handmade Mixed Media Clock

Do-Something-Everyday: Day 5

Handmade mixed-media clock using square wood panel and clock mechanism. I painted a couple of pots to which I added folk art style circular wood pieces with bird images. Finally, I added a small wood panel upon which I had woodburned June Kenyon's excellent advice to writers and artists (from A Hundred White Daffodils):

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good book, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

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Do Something Everyday: Homemade Plantain Chips

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Do-Something-Everyday: Santa Fe Folk Art Museum

Do-Something-Everyday: Day 3

Santa Fe International Folk Art Museum rightly boasts of the largest collection of folk art in the world. The museum is not huge but every inch of the museum space, from wall to wall, from ceiling to floor, back to back are covered with exhibits. The museum encourages photography but some of the exhibits are so huge and detailed that you have to take multiple photos from different directions to get the full picture. After a while, I was beginning to feel faint. I did manage to do some justice to the collection. Not all of them came out well but overall they provide good record of what was in there.

Folk art here are mostly collection of village scenes, some of them humongous, from countries around the world. The one above is a cockfight from Mexico. There are all kinds of charming details, like the donkey and its owner witnessing the cockfight from the back.

Below are a sample from India, Peru, Japan, a baptismal scene from Italy, bullfight from Spain, mariachi band from Mexico.