Hello! I'm Heather Smith Jones, an artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. I work in mixed media on paper, painting, photography, and letterpress and recently taught in an arts-based preschool for fifteen years. At this journal I post news events or happenings. For regular posting please visit my Dailies page. Thanks for stopping by and having an interest in my work.

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A lot of the time my sketchbook entries are separate within a spread because I like to look at the differences or similarities. Today though I “connected” them, partly because I had wet tempera left and I had a few more minutes to work. Thanks for looking! _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #passioncolorjoy #lifeofanartist #womenwhopaint #artistmom #carveouttimeforart

A couple recent entries I enjoyed making. Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. Thanks for looking! _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #passioncolorjoy #lifeofanartist #womenwhopaint #artistmom #carveouttimeforart

Around ten or eleven years back I made a series of watercolor paintings called, “Oceans and Wheat”. Maybe one or two of you might remember the series, who visited my (then) Etsy shop? Anyway, that series came to mind after the color meditation inspired by @lisasolomon that I painted and shared in my last post. So today’s entry is similar in feel, with rows or waves of dots. Thanks for looking! _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #passioncolorjoy #lifeofanartist #womenwhopaint #artistmom #carveouttimeforart

This morning I sat down to work in my sketchbook for a few minutes and @lisasolomon and her color meditations came to mind. This entry is inspired by her and she has a new book @a_field_guide_to_color releasing soon! I felt such calm after painting this. _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #passioncolorjoy #lifeofanartist #womenwhopaint #artistmom #carveouttimeforart

Two things: 1) I look at this entry and see a section that I want focus on further. 2) I am starting to write again, for myself, notations of what I notice in the world, experienced on our morning walks. Elements of what I wrote yesterday influenced part of what I painted here, in an abstract way. _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook #heathersmithjones #watercolor #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #passioncolorjoy #lifeofanartist #womenwhopaint #artistmom #carveouttimeforart

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a friday story

March 28, 2008

"Found: six 4 leaf clovers and reason", graphite, handmade watercolor on paper, image 9in. x 12in., framed 17in. x 20in.

Good Friday morning friends,
Inhale, exhale, ahhhh. It's Friday. Yesterday felt like a Monday to me, I'm not sure why but I couldn't get a steady momentum going. oh well.

I mentioned yesterday that I'll be part of a show in L.A. next month. Today I want to introduce a piece that will be part of a show at Artstream Gallery in N.H. beginning in early May {more details about the show soon}. If you click the image it will take you to a story, or my commentary about part of the piece. Here's a preview of additional work in mind for the show.

Thank you for all your nice comments yesterday and support for the L.A. show! I appreciate you every day.

Have a beautiful Friday,
Heather