Emily May – Emily May Studio Arts

April 14, 2019

Summer Travel Journals

Recently, Oliver asked to go to the California Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento. Having been there a hundred times, I decided to change it up a little. I told him to gather a bag with notebook, pencils, and erasers. We will go, but we will also sketch the things we see. Light grumbling ensued. Once we got there and he began to sketch, something in him lit up. We closed down the museum, pencils still skittering across our pages. We went outside and wandered familiar scenes through...

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May 19, 2018

Musings

Metamorphasis

Spring is about change. Newness. Creation. Ideas. I found this guy knocking at my front door. I want to paint him. For now, I will just share him and turn him into a social butterfly....

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December 24, 2017

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I Was Published!

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September 12, 2017

Musings

New Moment Monday.

I woke up this morning reflecting on how I used to not like Mondays. Not because I didn't actually like them, but because I never questioned hearing the general societal belief that Mondays basically suck. I adopted that belief for so long. But lately, I'm finding that I really like Mondays actually, a lot. Mondays are like the sun rising in the east. They are a new beginning. They are like when my children were little and they would do something wrong and get all bent out...

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September 6, 2017

Musings Studio Arts Blog

Head Space

'Doing Art' is a practice. And an area I need work at. I often find myself beginning a practice and then somewhere along the way I find myself trying to turn it into a masterpiece, sometimes wishing I'd used better paper or the opposite, wishing I'd just kept it short and sweet. Alas, I am a sucker for detail and can get sucked in by the allure of another dark crevice, a shadow perfectly placed or a hint of red just there in the corner. Today, I pulled...

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September 3, 2017

Musings

Crockpot Lasagna. Time Saver.

With two busy boys, school back in session and a husband who gets home late half of the week, I need easy food days. Usually, I roast a chicken with potatoes and then use the carcass and leftovers to make a bone broth soup the next day. Usually Mexican Tortilla. But, I figured people are going to get tired of that and I'd change it up and do something that I wouldn't normally think of making in a crock pot. Testing the limits of my crock cookery skills. Adding essential...

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September 3, 2017

Essential Oils

Making Up, MakeUp

Finally tired of gouging my fingertips every time I shove them into my nearly empty makeup container, I decided it was time to buy a new eyeshadow palette. My favorite creamy 'nude-look' was proving hard to find. All of my favorite places on the interwebs showed up with nothin'. And stores, not there either. Nada. Zilch. I have been using this one for a while and I did find it on clearance somewhere originally, but I guess it isn't being manufactured anymore. Being a creative type and an...

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