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2016 Retrospective

31 Saturday Dec 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Gratitude journal, Photographs

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acrylic paint, Altered books, art exchange, art journal, gratitude journal, hand painted cards, Journal, Peace, Retrospective

Here are some of my favorite pieces/photos from the past year. Each is going to be linked to the blog post that describes it, but I’m having technical difficulties for now.

January

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I sold this piece at an exhibit at Hatch Art House in Madison, WI

February

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This little landscape was donated for an auction at the Beaver Dam Area Art Center

March

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Gratitude journal page entry

April

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Three years of gratitude journals!

May

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Flower farm near our house in WI.

June

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Leaf Mandala with Flowers

July

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Summer Waves Mandala for a Community Art Project

August

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Illuminated box #1 completed

September

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October

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This photo was taken on our trip to Maine. We totally fell in love with Maine and look forward to many return trips! We went for the fall color and found so much beauty.

November

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Process Painting #3: Love

December

 

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These hand painted cards are from 3 separate posts, but I wanted to include a representational sample and send you into the new year with plenty of peace.

Happy New Year!

 

Year’s End Peace Art

28 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Gratitude journal

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Blue and white, blue paisely, cards, Christmas, Holiday, lettering, paisley, Peace

So I made 30 cards in all. It was really interesting to work in a series like this. I think I may make a larger piece inspired by the process, but until then here are 9 of the last 10. I’m not sure what happened to the 10th photo, but the cards are mailed so we have what we have. I hope this provides you with a little peace to end the year out right. My word for 2016 was Thrive and I think my word for 2017 may be peace. I think I made some good progress with thriving in 2016!

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I have a lot of gratitude journal post catching up to do and I think I may incorporate it into a year in review kind of thing. We will see what time permits.

I wish you all peace, health, and gratitude in the year to come!

Sending out Peace

14 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Quotes, Zentangles

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Blue, cards, Christmas, Christmas card, Holiday, paisley, Peace

My hope in life is to contribute to peace and beauty in the world. I’m taking that very literally this Christmas/Holiday season. I’m individually painting & illustrating my cards. Here is the first set of 10.

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I made a stencil for the large paisley and for the word Peace and then I played with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils, Ranger Distress Markers, some random gel pens and my Pigma Micron pens in 005, 01, and 03 of course they are all the blues. Making peace and beauty out of the blues. And I used my Pelikan Opaque Watercolors for the backgrounds. Each card is Zentangled and doodled and signed by me.This really fits nicely with the Diva’s Zentangle challenge #297: Give the Gift of Zentangle. For more tangled holiday fun check her out at

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The quote on the inside of my cards is

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.                                                                                                             Melody Beattie

Peace.

I have uploaded one of the cards to Fine Art America if you want to purchase a set to use for your Christmas cards.

Holiday Wishes for Peace

02 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal

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Christmas, Christmas card, Hanukkah, Kwanza, paisley, Peace, Solstice

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Here is my process for my Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Kwanza cards and one finished sample. Needless to say I won’t be sending out tons of cards. At least not individually painted ones. I thought that hand painted cards would be more personal than a commercial card with a sanitized family update.

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I wish you peace in this holiday season. Let’s all celebrate!

Map of Peace (pieces)

06 Friday May 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal, Quotes

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art, art journal, Art Journal Every Day, collage, gratitude, Gratitude Challenge, gratitude journal, Japanese Bowls, Map, Peace

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This week I worked on a scrapbook for my mom. It is of a trip that we took with my 2 sisters back to the state of Washington where the 3 of us were born. The different colored papers are leftovers from that project. So it the photo of the bridge of a boat we road on to go visit friends on the islands in Puget Sound.

I was also working on a map that I wanted to collage with no definite end in sight.

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It is one of the many maps of Wisconsin I have found in the course of my packing and cleaning and sorting that have become my life. There are also some papers from different times and journeys in my life. I tore up the papers and put it all together with matte medium and gesso.

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And I covered it with  a light coat of gouache and cut a few circles out. I included the circle that said “Welcome to Wisconsin” in my mom’s scrapbook and three circles int my gratitude journal. We have been having some delays and issues with the third house that we have put an offer on in New Jersey. So far my introduction to New Jersey has been a great deal of frustration so I REALLY needed to do some gratitude journal work.

The song on the facing page is Japanese Bowl by Peter Mayer

I’m feeling a little broken in pieces and in need of some gold to mend me. Making the map collage, the scrapbook, and my gratitude journal pages really helped. I would have included some gold leaf on the page, but I already packed it.

So here is to celebrating the crackpots! (That might not be quite what Peter had in mind, but it works for me)

I’m thinking about doing a gratitude challenge when I get settled in what ever place we end up living in New Jersey so make a post about something you are grateful for and put a link in the comments and we can get an informal start before I get all my ducks in a row. I would love to hear what you think!

Peaceful Hearts

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal, Journal 52

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Altered book, art journal, collage, gratitude, Heart, Journal 52, Peace

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This journal page reflects the influence of the Journal 52 prompt and really fun  art journaling video, my work on the sets at our theater, and my time in the swimming pool at our local YMCA. I participate in aquacize classes and swim 5 laps once a week when I can. I am grateful for the activities that I am able to participate in that help keep me healthy. The lights reflecting off the water last Saturday were really beautiful in my super blurry vision. I am so happy with the heart stencil that I made. It needs to be remade on something a lot more substantial, but the shape makes me happy. The word Peace came from my yoga class this morning. It just seemed like the perfect way to complete this page layout. May you be peaceful.

Share Your World – week 43

30 Friday Oct 2015

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal

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cats, Darkness, debate, Delight, gratitude, joy, love, migraine, Peace, Share Your World, social justice, SYW, tea

If you have been following me for a while you know that I am a fan of Cee’s Photo Challenges. She also does a weekly post called Share Your World and I have considered participating in the past, but this week I decided to plunge in. She poses a series of questions and she, and whoever wants to participate.

If you were on a debate team, what general subject would you relish debating?

In High School I did participate in the forensics program that included debate, but I chose to recite (sometimes my own) poetry. I was pretty good at it because I love poetry. However, I was very shy as a child and debate was way outside of what I was interested in. As I have gotten older I have found the courage, usually because of my passions and interest in social justice, to engage in debate. I have traveled widely and lived on 3 continents. My sons are adopted African Americans. I have health problems of the physical and mental kinds. I have had to advocate for my self and children and have chosen to do it for many others. The last few years race and economic injustice have been the main topics I debate. I have been so privileged in so many ways in my life I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can not or who are not invited to the discussion. My methods of debate are usually quiet and private and involve conversations with people who I believe I can teach. Sometimes I have used my blog as an avenue to share my ideas of social justice, but not as much as I thought I would when I started. This is actually a topic I think about a lot when deciding what to write about/post. My health limitations have precluded the energy it takes for me to overcome my desire for privacy and emotional involvement with so many of these topic. So, that may help you see why I chose to participate in this “Share your world.”

What is your strongest sense?

Probably taste, but I think quite a bit about my senses increasingly. Most of this summer I was not able to read for more than a few minutes at a time and most days I was not able to draw at all. Some of my vision issues have improved, but some continue to present challenges. The best thing to come out of this is my increased involvement with photography. It has been tremendously rewarding. My migraines demand that I spend days at a time in what I refer to as my “sensory deprivation tank.” I lay in my dark bedroom with my head packed with ice packs and some very quiet music or on an ok day an audio book. And I pet my cats. Those interactions with my cats (and the support from my husband) are a source of incredible joy and satisfaction to me. So, when you ask my strongest sense, I think all of mine are turned up too high for this world.

At one point I was identified by a food company as a “super-taster” I was selected for a 3 month training program in sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami (which may have a relationship to my migraines – I think). The training program actually made me too sick to continue into the job. For most of my life I was told I was a wimp when it came to hot foods and it turns out that I experience them differently than many people. Hot was actually characterized as a mouth sensation rather than a flavor and there was a whole education around this, too. Needless to say I really enjoy good food. Some of my friends and family think it is hilarious, but when I was introduced to the concept of mindfulness and eating I felt validated. To me a fresh raspberry can be a revelation. So, from my sensory deprivation days, I can still enjoy one of my strong senses and find great joy in a simple meal.

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

The funny thing about this one is that I have started writing my autobiography. I have had many people tell me I should write a book about my life and I have started to give this some deep thought in my quiet hours. You already know part of the title. Lunanista: Finding Delight in the Darkness. For any more on this you will have to wait to see if/when I finish it!

List your favorite flavors or types of tea.

As you may have guessed by the taste response, I have some ideas here, too! I love hot and cold green and English Breakfast teas, but most black teas are lovely to me. I also love Oolong, as it reminds me of my time living in Asia. I can no longer drink Jasmine tea because the fragrance triggers my migraines. Also, an allergy technician friend of mine recommended that I stop drinking chamomile because it was making my allergies worse. I love almost any tea with mint and have grown my own mint periodically. I love honeybush tea, but it is really difficult to find in my neck of the woods. On a cold day a lovely cup of chai feels like home, too. I also love to make my own fruit syrups to add to my iced teas in the summer. This past summer I made a cherry syrup that is lovely. My mother-in-law has found a place that produces lemon whipped honey that is so lovely in either hot or cold tea.

What are you grateful for from the last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

Cee includes this question every week and it is part of my personal gratitude practice. I have gotten away from my gratitude journals and hope this will bring me back into it. This past week has been very challenging for me physically. I have some new medical mysteries that have added problems on top of the migraines. Oddly enough, this is where the title of my book came from. I was laying in bed with pain levels at about a 7 or 8 but I was listening to some beautiful music and my little cat came and snuggled right up in my arms. Petting him led him to purr and there was something about that that was just plain wonderful. I have a safe, quiet room and lots of ice packs. My husband is so loving and does what he can to make me feel better – of particular note this week were hand and feet massages. I have been blessed with a group of such wonderful friends and family. They have brought me food and laughter and so much thoughtfulness. My cup runneth over. Next week I have an important medical test and a followup with my neurologist about some other tests I have had and I have hope that we will find answers or better questions. (But really I want answers). I look forward to delicious meals with loved ones. Purring cats. Renewing my gratitude journal practice. Laughter, music, books and moments of peace and joy. May you have peace and joy in the coming week as well.

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Peace Now

19 Tuesday Aug 2014

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude journal

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altered art, art, art journal, balance, collage, gratitude, Journal, meditation, Peace, yoga

I have been out in the world having adventures and have gotten way behind on posting! Please forgive me. Before we left for our adventures I was going to post a few pages but our internet access was unavailable. I had been listening to more Jack Kornfield meditations and the line that really resonated with me is “What would you have to let go of to be at peace right now?”

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Here is the page for another gratitude workshop. I have started to make up a stencil and some coordinating papers or other related items to give out at each workshop as a door prize. I’m having fun with it. Next month’s workshop will be using back to school supplies in fun and creative ways with some school supplies as door prizes.

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Here is the Thursday before the trip (see the “balance effort and ease” as our yoga class intention) and it included a lot of packing and other preparations. As in the yoga intention, I have to be careful to balance effort and ease with travel and travel preparation so as not to exacerbate my migraines. Having Joanne Sharpe’s Whimsical Letting book provided some lovely moments of ease. I also included the first day of our trip on this page. We started listening to the audiobook of Bill Bryson’s Walk in the Woods. What a great way to start our adventure!

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I did sporadic journaling on the trip and I have a lot of components that I need to bring together. I hope to update you on the trip soon!

Today I will let go of too many things on my to do list so that I can find peace. I will make time for meditation after putting a load of laundry in the washer. How can you find peace today?

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Intention

09 Thursday Jan 2014

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art, art journal, beauty, collage, gratitude, gratitude journal, intention, Peace

Intention

Good intentions…
Set your intention…
This is a word that is pregnant with meanings for me. In 2013 I set an intention to explore 3 possible paths and art, including blogging about it, is the one I have chosen to follow. This photo is my intention for 2014. I was starting to get stressed out because here I am thinking about posting about intention and that was all I had and I needed to …
Breathe.
Last year I think I found my path. This year I hope to follow my path to the best of my ability. This blog has become a fabulous source of support as I continue on my path.
May I be at ease.
May we have peace.
May we know beauty.
Living on purpose.
Happy new year.

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Meditation Collages Have Moved!

06 Friday Dec 2013

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collage, doodle, meditation, Peace, pen and ink, Zenspiration

Meditation Collages Have Moved!

I had a page for my meditation collages, but I have decided to make it a category for regular posts. As I am learning more about WordPress, I will continue to make adjustments. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

This is one that I am working on that is going to be part of a larger mixed media collage. It is called Find Peace Within. Prints and cards of this illustration are available for sale at http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/jeanette-clawson.html

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