Recent content by Ellen Easton

One of my professors many years ago talked about how a person's creative drive thrives the most on angst. The wounds and scars of life's extreme moments are where our most striking and impressive creations come from, but that takes some time to appear in our "rear view mirror" emotionally. At...

Everyone has been so busy creating wonderful works and here I sit, kind of stuck on stupid with not much to show for myself. I've been recuperating well from my hip replacement and have gotten some really awesome brushes and things from my reviews but even though I tried everything out, I...

The link is posted below that first post, Donna. It didn't show up very well, but it's there.

The paints are dry, the little palette closes just great, and today I'll try the kit out to make a tiny painting. I've been watching a couple of ladies on Youtube doing those so I'm intrigued now. I wasn't very interested in the tiny ones for awhile but this little accidental find of mine has...

Just thought I'd do some updating to let people who might be curious know of my progress. I'm doing well and had my final visits from physical and occupational therapy today. Next Friday I see the surgeon for an ex-ray to see what things look like inside. I'm having more soreness and pain the...

I was on Amazon the other day and one of the things I found was what was titled "acrylic travel palette" and I (foolish me) just jumped to the conclusion that it was for use with acrylic paints. I have several travel palettes for watercolors that are very small and I love them but on this one...

It's 50 miles one way down the mountain to the hospital. I don't exactly remember how long the hospital stay was but I think it was only three or four days till I was transferred to rehab for two weeks. No, there's no emergency clinic or anything being built up here. We have a tiny clinic...

Nobody was around but me right then. I had decided to just have a TV dinner rather than put my daughter to the task of cooking so I was on my way to the microwave from the fridge to put the dinner in for myself. My phone was on the charger across the kitchen and I landed too far away to reach...

Well, the doctor visit went well yesterday. I can now sleep like a normal person (pretty much) in my own bed. However, that long round trip into the valley and back took its toll on my poor hip. He said it will take about a year to regain all the muscle tone but that I'm doing well. I go back...

Oh yes, our little Secret Service Dr. Dog attendants always know, don't they? You too with the ster

I broke the ball off my left femur just walking to the microwave with a TV dinner early in April. But just like a bad penny, here I am again. You all can't seem to get rid of me any easier than you can get gum off your flip flop on a hot day.

To start out with, I fell down and hurt myself earlier in April. It's the worst pain I've ever had in my life including 4 child births. I broke my left femur. Just sheared the ball right off my left femur in the blink of an eye and slick as anything. I pray I never, ever, ever, EVER suffer...

Thank you so much, Christine! I'm glad you liked my post and especially that you understood what I was trying to say. I was just reading some posts about "style" and "finding one's style". It reminded me of a painting I did in one of my sketch books back when the Ukraine war first started. I...

I recently got a bracelet that has a little tag on it that says "Create something beautiful each day" and it also has a charm depicting an artist's palette plus some others. My intention was that it "nag" me to paint or sketch every day, but then I also realized that creating something...

Actually, belatedly before I forgot to post the link, I'll add this 300 pages of cotton paper because it was one of the papers I tried that I was actually surprised how much I enjoy using it. I do think this is a good paper at a price so cheap I figured it would be pretty much just junk...