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A to Z Challenge: Day 2 - B

BFF and my creative partner by LinzéToday I want to share a portrait I recently painted of my best friend, Vanessa Wright. I have drawn portraits before, but never painted one.I am busy experimenting with gouache paint on gouache paper. So why not paint my best friend?Fortunately for me, she liked it!
Vanessa Wright

A-toZ Challenge: Day 1 - A

I ... "do" ... art by Melissa AdendorffI ... "do" ... art. I don't paint, or sculpt with tangible media, but I move in such a way that I sculpt a story with my body and paint and draw movement combinations in the air, in three dimensions for a very short time, and hope that they become imprinted on the eyes of those who watch.

I am art. I have always been  And while my embodied art is potentially a bit outside of the general palatable and consumer-directed mainstream I am still and have...

A-to-Z Blog Challenge 2020 Theme reveal

April is almost here and this year I am taking part again in the blog challenge. I have guest posts and books and art and art journaling to share with you. There are still a few spots left if you are looking to feature a new book or would like share your creative journey with me and my readers. The schedule is updated and posted to my Twitter profile if you are looking for some free promo.
Remember your name, last name, title or theme has to suit the letter of the alphabet, so make sure I...

Art Journal 2020: Life

For my entry this time I chose to focus on Seneca's philosophy on life, and being present. The choice of colours was deliberate to bring a more joyful spin to the art and the text.
  
Figure 1: Leaves stencilled and outlinedMaterials:
1. Art journal
2. Textured paste
3. Stencil of your choice (I used leaves)
4. Pallet knife
5. Sharpie Ultra Fine marker
6. Gel medium (gloss or matt)
7. Chameleon alcohol based markers (see each step fo the colours)
8. Sanding paper/block medium/fine

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COVER REVEAL: Love, Marriage, and Other Disasters by Shilpa Suraj

~ Cover Reveal ~
Love, Marriage, and Other Disasters
by Shilpa Suraj
About the Book:
She believes in love, family andsquiggles!


Alisha Rana is not your typical single desi girl. For one, she is on the wrong side of 30.  For another, she is divorced. And last but definitely not least, she is still, gasp, a virgin!Alisha doesnt want much. But what she does want is that elusive thing all women search for A man who gets herbut a man who gets her hot! She calls it feeling the squiggle.Enter Dr....

COVER REVEAL: Murder in the Chowdhury Palace by Sharmishtha Shenoy

~ Cover Reveal ~
Murder in the Chowdhury Palace
by Sharmishtha Shenoy

About the Book:

What if someone you loved... was murdered? How far would you go to bring a killer to justice?
Orphaned in her childhood, Durga has always longed for wealth, security and, above all, a sense of belonging. She finds it all when she marries Debnarayan Chowdhury, heir to an immense, multi-crore estate. But the Chowdhury family has been under a curse that dates back to the British era. The first-born of each...

Art Journal 2020: Found Poetry (a guest post)

According to Wikipedia, found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them. I spent 2 days exploring this in my art journal, using random pages from a book bound for the recyclers. As a journal, I use a recycled, stitched and bound hardcover fiction book. I glued 3 pages together with acrylic gel medium as I was afraid that the black markers would bleed through. 

I used Dala acrylic gel medium. I...

Guest Post and Giveaway: Francis H. Powell on his latest release

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     Amazon * B&NBy some freaky coincidence, a theme that runs through my latest book is happening for real in the world, with the news centered on this dreadful  coronavirus  outbreak.My book is called Adventures of “Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation.”The theme of world annihilation is covered obviously, with the idea of one human or being surviving catastrophic events.Somebody recently asked  me “why write a book about death...

Book Feature: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW (an anthology)

Something Old, Something New
- A DRA Production
Seven bestselling authors. Seven incredible second chance romances. One epic anthology. 
What would you do for another chance with the one you love? 
Something Old, Something New - a unique novella anthology - tries to answer this question with fantastic, different, desi dramas. 
Whether it is shapeshifters or shifting interracial relationships, single moms in small towns or rich alpha heroes, friends-to-lovers or passionate...

Art Journal 2020: Amor Fati

This week is the second in the series #JournalArt2020 dealing with the theme of stoicism. This week my entry is about Amor Fati - to love your fate.

1.  Start again with a blank spread, but this entry involves a third page (kept single). There two outer pages were glued together again with gel medium, but there is no painting involved in this entry, so you don't have to glue to outer pages.
I used gel medium, because the pages in this particular book bleeds with the markers and I didn't...