Adventure Journal — VW Bus

There are two main ways I connect with the higher power...(for simplicity's sake I'll call God):  Creating and Nature. In the past, connecting with God through Nature meant days long backpacking trips or hours spent in the canyons of Smith Rock climbing. When I began working full time, I had to find ways to connect with God in a shorter stints of time. That's when my Traveling Art Pouch came into being.  The above piece began as an exploratory of a new traveling watercolor kit. Green has always been my go to color: hence, the color of the basecampvagabond 1979 VW Bus. I had been...

Sometimes called Jerry, more often referred to as simply as "The Bus," this 1979 VW Tintop has been in our family since March 2003. In the winter of 2015-16, we had the engine rebuilt. Our mechanics loved us so much that Christmas that they gave us all matching shop tshirts! It's still pretty much stock...aside from the z-bed we put in. We still have a laundry list of things we'd like to do to it when time and money allow. have working headlights UPDATE: fixed the relay switch. Headlights work 8/2018 install a sound system that allows us to still...

I am enthralled with the mandala form. When creating this piece, I remember wondering if the mandala would be more uniform if I used a square space, rather than the rectangle of my paper, similar to when you fold a square for origami. I was experimented with different shades of color in my watercolor kit. In many of my pieces, I depict my soul, as a purple color. Any soul, mine included is complex:  purple can be a complex color to mix to the exact shade that is swirling in my mind. In this piece, my soul was muddied, not the brilliant purple I want to...