I started my day by taking another look at Molly Spencer’s revision post. I followed her link to Poets & Writers The Time Is Now series and found an inspiring prompt: Excavating the Mind The prompt, inspired by Bernadette Mayer’s book Memory, challenges to jot down notes about several images and observations each day forContinue reading “A Poetry and Photography Project for May: Day 1 the flowers stole focus”
Category Archives: Exploring
Revising and Editing Poems
Now that National Poetry Writing Month is over and many of us have thirty fresh poem drafts, it’s time to start thinking about revision. This morning I scoured the internet for revision techniques and found a lot of useful information and some worksheets. We want to approach each poem with fresh eyes, so I recommendContinue reading “Revising and Editing Poems”
#NaPoWriMo Day 11: Exploring Floriography
A to Z Challenge jam – improvisation jubiloso – play in a jubilant or exulted manner jentele – play in a pleasing, graceful or elegant manner NaPoWriMo Prompt: write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings Floriography is the language of flowers, a coded language used in Victorian times toContinue reading “#NaPoWriMo Day 11: Exploring Floriography”
National Poetry Writing Month is Here!
Blogging A to Z This year I wanted to do something a little different. I’ll still be exploring great words, but instead of new words I decided to concentrate on specific terminology. Every skill, concentration, study or craft has its own terminology. I thought I would add some music to my poetry by looking atContinue reading “National Poetry Writing Month is Here!”
Klecksography- Today’s poem: Shelter at Home
For today’s poem I used the Sasquatch magnetic poetry kit. This ink blot shows the nice copper iridescent paint in the Golden acrylics I talked about in my Happy Accidents post. Poetry month starts a week from today. Are you getting excited? What are you doing to prepare for your daily poetry challenge? Happy ReadingContinue reading “Klecksography- Today’s poem: Shelter at Home”
Innovations in Klecksography: Happy Accidents
This poem was made with the Sasquatch magnetic poetry kit. I thought this looked like Mothman. What do you see? If you sit back from the screen you can see the iridescence better. I was having trouble getting enough color dropped onto the page with my new palette of watercolors, so I thought I wouldContinue reading “Innovations in Klecksography: Happy Accidents”
Innovations in Klecksography: Changing the shape of the paper
For this poem, I used the Mustache magnetic poetry kit. Today’s innovations were inspired by a design challenge on Spoonflower. Spoonflower is a great website that lets you design your own fabric and start your own fabric store. I have a shop called Mber Creations with a few bokeh photography designs that I turned intoContinue reading “Innovations in Klecksography: Changing the shape of the paper”
Innovations in Klecksography: Fail better edition
I like this ink blot from the other day. I see two butterflies and an alligator. What do you see? For this poem I used the Genius magnetic poetry kit. For today’s innovations in klecksography, I tried a bunch of new things: I tried folding and blotting along the diagonal I tried folding along manyContinue reading “Innovations in Klecksography: Fail better edition”
Discovering a New Palette
Sunday morning I was debating whether or not I should order a new little watercolor kit because the one I’ve been using is almost out of paint, but then I remembered an old Gallery art kit in my closet. I was excited to find a whole new palette of colors to play with. Gallery separatedContinue reading “Discovering a New Palette”
Exploring Klecksography is Free and Fun!
You don’t have to have paint and brushes to create ink blots. You can use coffee, tea, even ketchup or mustard. Ran out of printer paper? Any old scrap paper will do. To further my klecksography innovation, I started with the eye-dropper and let that layer dry. Then I tried different size brushes. Flat vs.Continue reading “Exploring Klecksography is Free and Fun!”
Experience Writing 