Image credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, marker, collage An excerpt from Free Play, Improvisation in Life and Art  by Stephen Nachmanovitch: “I have never ceased to be astounded at the power of writing, music making, drawing, or dance to pull me out of sadness, disappointment, depression, bafflement. I am not talking about entertainment or distraction, but of playing, dancing, drawing, writing my way through and out. This process resembles the best in psychotherapy. We don’t

Image credit: Gina Greenlee, Pinterest Mary said, “you need grounding before you take this big trip around the world .” So, she coached me to “create-destroy-recreate” art pieces for 30 consecutive days in the months leading up to the trip. Minimal instruction, no elaborate context, only “ Try it and see what happens. ” Image credit: Gina Greenlee, quick fashion magazine collage Always playing with art , I was open to possibility in the moment without having to know what came

Image Credit: Gina Greenlee, paint, ink, collage For more of my take on growing up on New York City’s Lower East Side: Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish on the Lower East Side Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York Hush Life, a novel No Tears for Frankie: A Memoir on the Life of an Essay     ◊ ◊ ◊ Take a YouTube tour of my hometown. The background song is the 1977 hit Native New Yorker , performed by Odyssey . The lyrics, shared in this

DANCERS Image credits: digital collage narrative, Gina Greenlee ORIGINS Image credits: analog painted book pages, Gina Greenlee

FLIGHT TRANSITION DIVE SOAR ◊ ◊ ◊ ABSTRACTION ORIGINS How painted book pages take flight. Image credits: painted collage narrative, Gina Greenlee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqU2tcfwIY Ideas are like mice in your house: you know they are there, you don’t know when you’re going...

Image credit: Artpedagogy.com I discovered the Artpedagogy website during one of my immersive digital wanderings. I’ve only begun to dig...

Collage   Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art Don’t Regret the Spill… New York State of Mind Slow Morning Visual:...

I “worked” The Artist’s Way in 1994, a year after I moved to Connecticut. I say, “worked” not read. If you read it and do not follow the...

Image credit: Aphton Corbin My March 11 post got me Googling: “Drawing black people features in cartooning.” Image credit: Aphton Corbin...

“When people say they can’t draw, I think it’s more to do with beliefs rather than talent and ability. When you say you can’t draw,...

My interests in fashion, collage, paper dolls and play prompted me by happenstance to create these “Gina dolls.” I’m loving these. That’s...

The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a...

― THEODORE ROETHKE It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art “The...

Junk mail collage art: Gina Greenlee Creating junk mail art is a great visual art practice if you don’t already have one. It’s the...

Very old ones donated to the library. I read ‘em then play with the images.

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too...

Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game that traces its roots to the 1920s Parisian Surrealist Movement. Usually played by several...

Pen and ink drawing by Gina Greenlee, inspired by one created by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a...