Kaaren Poole

This is going to be a great week. I’m on sabbatical! After spending week after week, month after month for so long working on my books,...

I may be one of the few people in the US who remained unaware of today’s eclipse until just a day or two ago. Oddly, I’d been working on...

One of the things I love about art is that there is always something new to learn. And not only was learning the the purpose of the...

I’m working on a piece in preparation for recording an art instruction video for Tamara Laporte’s 2024 Life Book program. My intention is...

I posted about the beginning of this project a few weeks ago here. Since then, I’ve continued to work on the project - the cover for the...

A surprise changed my priorities this week. Suddenly, I had the unpleasant realization that it was March already. How did that happen?...

I love Southwest jewelry, especially with turquoise bears set in silver bracelets or necklaces. And one day, as I was looking at them on...

Here’ where I finished last time, inspired by the colors in a spread from a catalog, and with no idea where I’d go with it. I did,...

Here’s where I stopped last week, thinking that I was finished or nearly so, but I gave myself a few days to decide. And here’s when I...

This little stag head painting has been kicking around my studio for at least a couple of years. Saturday, when I came across it again, I...

For a large portion of the time I’ve spent working on this piece I was dissatisfied with it. My main problem was that it just didn’t feel...

This past week has been a busy one. My sister, who lives next door to me, had knee replacement surgery, and I’ve been her care-giver. I’m...

What’s next with paper clay? A black bear. But not just any old black bear—a spirit black bear. After recently creating another of my...

Well, I should say ‘the most art fun I ever had!” And you may well say  ‘but what is it?’ It’s a 3D mixed media piece that I made in a...

There was something strange happening as I created this portrait of my late cat Zeke for the dedication in the book I’m working on. I was...

Last week I was looking through some of my old magazines, and I was finding wonderful cat image after wonderful cat image. For some...

Do any of you remember Christmas tree bubble lights? They were introduced in the 1940’s, were most popular in the 1950’s and 1960’s, then...

Well, I thought I’d finished Miss Marcia the raccoon, but now that I look at this photo, I think her expressions is a little sad, so I’ll...

All week I’ve been looking forward to getting back to this project and working on the raccoon. Here’s as far as I got. But there’s still...

For various reasons, it’s been a while since I’ve experienced joy in creating art. I felt helpless in the face of that emptiness, and, in...