Earlier this year I discovered a fascinating book, "Creating Art at the Speed of Life," by Pam Carriker, and it inspired me to not only create a handmade art journal and begin the lessons, but to share the book with friends in the Table Rock Art Guild. Now at least eight of us have a journal and the book and are, hopefully, working through the 30 lessons in the book and journaling about the experience. In addition, I made my granddaughter Meghan a journal and gave it to her

April is "panel change" time at the TRAG Gallery and lately I have either tried to put up only new work that I haven't shown before or hang work that applies to a "theme." Last quarter I used a theme (things I painted/drew while at the Marybelle house), so this quarter I challenged myself to do all NEW work. The trouble was, though, that I hadn't done that much since the first of the year. I worked for WEEKS on a COLOR magazine tutorial of a Venetian mask that went to Sar