Music and Magic from the Heart of Our Nature
It’s so much fun to prepare for my art show, opening on Friday. Here’s a piece I’ll have finished by then:
I have a lot of ideas I’m very excited about for 2015–including the debut of a comic on this blog! Stay tuned!
Wishing you many blessings, many inspirations, and much real magic ~
Jane
So delighted to be presenting my art once more at Vashon Intuitive Arts. Five of my pieces were included in the Day Of The Dead show in October. I’m honored that the good folks of VIA liked my work so much that they invited me to do a whole show of my own!
Here are the details:
Friday, January 9, 2015, – 6-9PM. First Friday Gallery Tour Opening. VIA – Vashon Intuitive Arts, 177331 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon, WA, 206-463-0025. Enter an enchanted realm in this showing of reflective and magical art in watercolor and colored pencil drawings and fanciful photographs. Show exhibits throughout the month.
An artist who is also a harper, storyteller, and nature teacher, Jane draws upon her love of imagination, music, folklore, and the natural world in her creative expressions. She has authored a children’s fantasy novel set on an island very much like Vashon, and has written and illustrated a children’s herbal comic that ran for two years in the acclaimed herbal journal, Plant Healer Magazine.
National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner — in fact, it starts tomorrow! Each year for the past three, my family has participated. This year is no different! My younger daughter, husband, and I are all going to be working on novels.
How about you?
If you’re a kid, sign up with the NaNoWriMo’s Young Writer’s Program. There you get to set your own word count and have the fun of seeing a graph of your progress. Plus, if/when you complete your novel during the month, you receive a few lovely perks. In the past, CreateSpace.com has offered five free copies of one’s book if you are NaNoWriMo winner in the Young Writer’s Program. Whoo hoo!
If you’re an adult, sign up at NaNoWriMo. Your challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. You’ll find lots of support and tips when you sign up (whether in the Young Writer’s Program or in the grownup version). I have to confess that on years (like this one) when I know I can’t make 50,000 words (my hands are complaining these days of overuse) I sign up in the Young Writer’s Program … I guess I feel like my novel writing self is indeed mostly a young writer. But I’m sure that’s not the intention of YWP.
But whether you sign up with NaNoWri or the NaNoWriMo Young Writer’s Program, it is so worth participating. All over the world, thousands of writers of all ages will be scrawling or tapping keyboards furiously.
How about you?
I’d love to hear about what you”re writing (novel, poem, story — anything!). Feel free to share in the comment box below.
Catch the wave and write on!
