Studio Journal / Blog | margaretshipman

Dec 4, 2022
1 min

A Gift for My Subscribers

I'm starting something new! I keep a notebook - it's a binder of my notes on the plants in the wild and gardens around me which I add to...

Dec 1, 2022
2 min

After the Rush - Looking Forward

I love the current series I'm working on. I call it "Specimens" and it combines my Mandala and Roadside Weeds series by being in a circle...

Sep 26, 2022
1 min

A Two Person Exhibit with Lauren Watrous & Me!

I have never had free rein over an exhibit like this. Today Lauren and I stood in the middle of the Community Room at the Governor Hunt...

Sep 14, 2022
1 min

Little Wooden Print Experiment

I just added little wooden prints of some of my newer paintings for sale on my Etsy site. These are fun 4" squares of wood with images of...

Sep 2, 2022
1 min

Little Paintings

Little paintings are on the way! I am currently creating a collection of small works that look like little moments in my big paintings. I...

May 23, 2022
2 min

Art Workshop, Saturday June 4th - Limited Space Available

Hello Friends, Please join me on a little creative adventure. First, some background. There is a beautiful parcel of land in Marlboro...

May 2, 2022
2 min

Spring Energy!

Spring cleaning also means taking care of loose ends like making better photos of paintings that I am trying to sell. I recently read in...

Mar 20, 2022
1 min

Big Change for the Equinox

This is the week of the spring equinox -- a time of big changes. Here in southern Vermont it is mud season in my driveway. Daytime...

Jan 15, 2022
2 min

Learning How to Take My Own Art Images

I worked for years with a wonderful photographer. About twice a year I loaded up my paintings in the back of the mini van and dropped...

Dec 14, 2021
1 min

Trying Something New

I use a resin to adhere the glass to the prints and the tray when I make my pendants. The company I used to buy my resin from has gone...

Nov 26, 2021
1 min

A New Crop of Pendants

After looking in boxes, on shelves, behind curtains, and other out of the way places I finally found my pendant making kit! This batch...

Nov 24, 2021
1 min

Gift Certificates

I just added a listing for Gift Certificates to my Etsy shop. I think I broke the rules doing this - so I am hoping that they don't take...

Nov 22, 2021
1 min

I'm Having a Sale!

I am part of the Thanksgiving sales splurge temptation now! Everything in my Etsy shop is 20% off until December 1. I have never done...

Nov 21, 2021
1 min

In Love with Ready to Hang

I had these cradle boards around the studio for about a year without being interested in doing anything with them. Suddenly they caught...

Nov 20, 2021
1 min

Layers!

My studio time today was adding more layers of green to this painting of the sun rising through the trees in my parents' back yard in...

Nov 18, 2021
1 min

November Mandala

When I first painted my mandala series I had the goal of making a painting for each festival on the Celtic Wheel of the year and, if...

Nov 13, 2021
1 min

Studio Day #1 for Mystery Art Project

Well, it's not that much of a mystery if you know me at all. Stacy Salpietro-Babb and I are working on a new Tarot deck. I just nested...

Nov 12, 2021
1 min

Gift Wrapping for Small Paintings

Sometimes being a little bit of a "hoarder" is a good thing. I have a roll of beautiful paper in my studio - where it came from is a...

Nov 11, 2021
1 min

I'm Posting a LOT

I just don't want this Studio Journal to start off blank for a long time -so I'm getting my thoughts out. I just sent a newsletter to...

Nov 11, 2021
2 min

Trying to be like Henri Rousseau

I got to be in the same room as Henri Rousseau paintings this past summer when I visited MoMA. This is a picture of that happening. The...