All Categories - Karen Tanner

Journal journeys

11/11/2023

“What you learn from one journey guides you to follow another, these creative processes are also exactly that.
Never planned, but always the same intention of seeking the known within the unknown.”
- Lienie van der Westhuizen

My daughter Whitney and I had a great road trip in September. Along the way we journaled, had fun drawing and end product was this up cycled journal from a kid’s book and hand crafted origami fold diary. Collaged photos. I prepare the piece in advance of the trip, and date the pages. It helps along the way to visually see how far you’ve gone, and how many days are left of your adventure. Each day we draw and journal little mini Artworks, add memorabilia picked up along the way… It all comes together as a beautiful visual memory of memories!

Dark Shadows

22/10/2023

👻🧡🎃🐈‍⬛Happy Halloween!👻 🧡🎃🐈‍⬛

One Fine Day

14/10/2023

One Fine Day
October 15, 2005.

Old Faithful
Yellowsone National Park

Howdy

6/10/2023

Don’t Fence Me In

Gene Autry lyrics –

Oh give me land lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise

I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences
Gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
Can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise

I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences
Gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
Can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in.

Beach

4/10/2023

“This is our time”
- Goonies
Astoria & Cannon Beach, Oregon

No Muse…

17/9/2023

"Being in your studio working regularly allows for the work to come through.

Don’t wait for the next idea or inspiration to arrive,
but rather
be working on something
when it does."
- Cheryl Taves

Vintage Book Illustration Bandannas

16/9/2023

Every once in awhile you stumble across a really cool accessory…and concept…
As in Heading Bandanas. They use vintage book illustrations for the bandana design. Brilliant.
Bravo, Heading, I’m a customer for life!!
Their link is below, check it out. I ordered two for my daughter and two for me. American made, Portland, Maine. Natural cotton, 24”x24”.

Headings bandana website link

Kin-dy Art with Will

16/9/2023

This was such fun! I spent an hour a week with my grandsons kindergarten class facilitating art projects. His teacher was so wonderful to share time with – and she was so wonderful to share her class! We started most lessons with a short, read aloud book, and ended most art projects with a snack. Priceless❤️
I had forgotten to post this so – a few months behind schedule lol

Autumn Skies & Apple Pies

16/9/2023

"Bake the world a better place..."
Baked my first galette today,
used honeycrisp apples from Michigan friends.
Thanks, Melissa and Paul!

Listening-verb

14/9/2023

"I began to listen differently--to myself, to others, and to the world around me.

It was a listening I would call both active and without an agenda...I began to observe that when there was no expectation for me to respond, acknowledge, analyze...I listened differently.

My ego relaxed... In silence I was hearing others more keenly and witnessing my own thoughts, too, and seeing how they served to separate or to connect me. I was learning not to turn away from the parts of myself that were difficult."

- Anne D. LeClaire,
LISTENING BELOW THE NOISE