I think my eyes are wide open, I think I’m fully awake, I think my senses are …

While more than fifty people participated in yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at CMCA, there were many more than …

What makes us stop in our tracks to really look at a work of art? What pulls …

The Fotoplay pages in this post were created by a young lady named Isabel, who clearly does …

Yesterday’s book signing at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was just one of the events we …

Here’s a peek at today’s book signing at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, which is located …

Many thanks to Cool Mom Picks for their terrific review of Fotoplay! After cool mom Christina Refford …

In anticipation of this Saturday’s book signing at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art, I’ve designed four …

The work in this post was sent to me by Alexis Iammarino, a many-faceted artist/teacher who is …

This completed page was sent to me by Corine D., an art therapist in New York City, …

Yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was filled with adults and children of …

Yesterday I received in the mail, all the way from Australia, the gorgeous magazine you see in …

This post is filled with the carefully considered work of nine year old Daniel, who is painting …

With lots of help, I’ve been preparing for the next ArtLab for All Ages at the Center …

Yesterday was the third day of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School. We moved from …

On day two of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School, I worked with 40 more …

Yesterday was the first day of my residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School. As I wrote …

This is a photograph I received a few days ago, of two cousins, Seamus and Avery, with …

On Monday I’ll begin a Fotoplay-inspired residency at the Camden Rockport Elementary School, in Rockport, Maine. The …

What does it mean to draw or color? What happens when a child (or a grown child) …

In this gallery, #2 of works created from my Fotoplay book, I’ve posted more pages made at …

On Tuesday, I delivered to the Starrett Children’s Center two copies of my Fotoplay book. Those of …

The Fotoplay book trailer is HERE! I will be brief and let this gorgeous creation speak for …

Fotoplay! The Book, has arrived, and is now available for shipping!  As with the creation of all …

This post is part 2 of one from last week, in which I wrote about a workshop …

Spring break at Bowdoin College. An empty campus; most buildings were locked. But the drawing studio was …

I’ve wanted to write about exquisite corpse since I first created this blog, for lots of reasons: …

Yesterday I led a workshop at the Rockport Public Library, which I designed in response to the …

A few months ago, Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue, the creators of the wonderful BIG Kids Magazine, …

Yesterday’s ArtLab workshop at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art was totally fun, and as usual, it …

Tomorrow I’ll be leading another workshop at the Center For Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, Maine. To …

In earlier posts, here and here, I wrote about the world of stock photography and the many …

In my last post, I wrote about the year-long evolution of the cover of Fotoplay, and the …

I spent this past week still completely immersed in refining the design of my Fotoplay book and …

Last year, in my very first post on this blog, I wrote about children’s art, and how …

The Fotoplay Invitational, What’s On the Horizon?, is now complete. Nine unique works were created in response …

I’m pleased to offer you the second of my free Fotoplay pages, which is also a sneak …

This weekend I received an email from my friend Maya, along with photographs of the work she …

The final design of my book is now completed, and I expect to see the first full …

How great is the internet? (This is a rhetorical question.) It’s pretty great. It’s actually beyond great. …

While I continue to receive new work for the Fotoplay Invitational, I won’t be posting about it …

This morning I received an email from my friend Chris Osborne,with his contribution to the Fotoplay Invitational. …

The newest pieces to arrive in my inbox for the Fotoplay Invitational were created by my friend …

  Have you ever, while standing on a beach looking out at the horizon, felt that you …

Gallery 2 of the Fotoplay Invitational includes works that suggest (one with more subtlety than the other) …

The first two pieces for the Fotoplay Invitational have arrived, and I have to say that I …

When thinking about creating a new Fotoplay image for the Invitational, what I wanted, first and foremost, …

It is no longer December, and it is no longer the “holiday season.” As I wrote in …

The photograph of the work above arrived by email yesterday, along with the series of photographs that …

Early this morning, on this first bright day of the New Year, I opened my inbox and …

It’s New Year’s Eve, and photographs of two new December Fotoplay cards, that I think are so …

These winter mornings, anticipating the Fotoplay cards that might be waiting for me in my inbox, I …

Gallery 8 of the December Fotoplay cards is filled with works that share a sense of playfulness, …

Here in gallery 7 of the December Fotoplay cards, you’ll see a Guggenheim-esque sculpture, “stained glass” windows, …

While I am far from happy about it, I am going to openly admit the following: I …

In earlier posts, here and here, I wrote about my holiday card ritual, and why it is …

It seems that the zeitgeist of this group of December Fotoplay cards is Conceptual. The above work …

The creators of this next collection of December Fotoplay worked with markers, pencil, and collage, and designed …

This second set of completed December Fotoplay cards was no less exciting for me to receive than …

This year, for my annual holiday card, I created a Fotoplay image (I took the original photograph …

The lovely folks at BIG magazine recently asked me to create a Fotoplay page for their upcoming …

This week, my son, my husband and I decided to build a holiday tree, using whatever we …

Last spring, I created this Fotoplay page using a photograph I took eight years ago at the …

In an earlier post I wrote about the world of stock photography and a few of the …

In an earlier post I wrote about the not-so-obvious (and sometimes mystical) part of the process of …

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my annual holiday card project in my post “one image, …

Yesterday in CMCA’s ArtLab the children created their third collaborative painting. If I’d have videotaped this session, …

After tonight’s delicious Thanksgiving feast, there were games and conversations, and then there was Fotoplay… Below is …

Thank goodness I was in New York last December for that record-setting blizzard. And thank goodness there …

For twenty years I’ve been sending photographs to various agencies (aka stock houses) to license my work. …

I was fascinated by the responses to the head template stamps I made, so I created a …

My attraction to the mystical head-template-stamp idea lingered, so I made a few more basic head shape …

Here is a gallery of works created by both children and adults, using the same Fotoplay page. …

In the spring of 2011 I was asked to look through my archives and create a photograph …

Do you like to read books? Do you like to look at hand-colored photographs? Are you crazy …

It was a cold, snowy day when I visited the British Museum in London. But then I …

…framing and reframing in the stedelijk museum…

…this liquid life…

In November of 2010, I received a grant from the Maine Foundation, Early StARTS, to work with …

I went back to Florence for a week in September and came home with one photograph. 
…italia, …

A lamp I created with slides of  my husband’s and my work. Or: What does one do …

…a moment of silence amidst days of rhythm and song…

In the summer of 2011, I was commissioned to create a wall mural for City Drawers, a …

This is another collaborative piece created during my time at the Starrett Children’s Center. Contributing artists: Grace, …

…the view from our window over Hartenstraat…

Children, and the art created by children, have long been a source of inspiration for me. Children …