Creative Guam Bus Stops: Adopted, Painted, Beautified

ALSO CHECK OUT PART 2 As I drive around Guam my eye is caught by painted bus stops every day. I admire the creativity, the variety, and the effort to beautify previously run-down or graffitied bus stops. If I had it my way, we’d beautify all the buildings on the island this way. If you, …

Creative Spotlight: Magic Tree Painting

Up next going in to my exhibit at Pika’s Cafe in Upper Tumon, Guam (across St. John’s school)… the Magic Tree. Acrylic painting on 3’x5′ stretched canvas. I’ve been wanting to paint a big tree again for awhile now, and finally got my fix! May put a few more finishing touches on the tree, but …

Exhibit at Pika’s Cafe Guam SOLD OUT + New Art Added

Whoohoo! Thank you to Scott Hagen, who bought out my entire Pika’s Cafe exhibit. I am super grateful, and hope that the paintings bring color and life to his family’s home. We left the walls bare for the weekend, and then Monday morning I brought in the last of my finished pieces in stock. Now …

Pika’s Cafe Guam: Showcasing exhibits from featured local artists

Pika’s Cafe is awesome. Great food, great people, great concept. All around, I am grateful they exist and they create what they create. And they support others who create stuff. EAT LOCAL~ Guam’s Buy Local movement has grown, and Pika’s offers a variety of local products used in their menu. My boys love it too, …

Creative Spotlight: Magic of the Ifit Flower

So this past week I decided I wanted to paint something specific. An ifit flower. And I just happened to have a beautiful photo that I took of one last year, much better than any photo I found searching on google! Of course, I would paint it in my own style, my creative version, not …

Creative Spotlight: The Magic Behind the Turtle Painting

Some of you knew this was coming. I’ve talked of turtles and their magic before, shared with friends, made mentions of one day painting a turtle into one of my artworks. Well, there has been a lot of turtle magic in my life recently, and to tell you the truth, this painting wasn’t planned. It …

Creative Spotlight: Her Majesty, The Queen(s)

Had an image in my mind today and immediately set up my easel, a 24″x30″ canvas, and my paints to start on it while the inspiration was fresh. It is titled “Her Majesty,” and represents a queen who is energetic, full of life & joy, powerful, graceful, bold, loving and playful. She is well-respected for …

Creative Session This Saturday: Featuring Local Watercolor Artist

You are going to want to join us this Saturday at Tu Re Cafe (upstairs) for the latest weekly Creative Session. We are focusing on watercolors, and we have a guest artist joining us, Viktoria Sayrs. She is a well-known local watercolor artist who is known for her landscape portrayals of our beautiful island home, …

Happy New Year 2013!!! Photos, art, music & connection!

What a party! Last night was New Year’s Eve here on Guam, and we rocked it at the Extravagant New Year’s Eve party at the Sheraton Laguna Resort. Creative Indeed teamed up with The Dollhouse, a 10-piece all-star female band, and DJ Nemesis to host a great show of music and art. Creative extravagance indeed! …

Awesome Creative Session: Beading, Watercolor, Acrylic, Sand & Writing

Last Creative Session was awesome! We had a full house, including a mini artist. Between the 8 of us, we were painting (acrylic and watercolor), beading, mixed media (sand, collage), writing, brainstorming, resume writing, and simply enjoying ourselves. With some fun music, great conversation, and of course, tons of creativity swirling around, it was quite …

Extravagant New Year’s Eve Party: Music, Art, Dancing

Get ready to bid farewell to 2012 in style. The Extravagant New Year’s Eve party at the Sheraton Laguna Resort will feature a spectacular 10-piece female music group: The Dollhouse, who will be leading us into 2013 in glitzy rockin’ extravagant fashion. Creative Indeed will be hosting a live art exhibit, featuring some funky sexy …

Creative Sessions: Dream Boards, Vision Boards, Treasure Maps

They are all the same thing to me, a collage of images that light up your soul. Vision Board. Dream Board. Treasure Map. A visual sanctuary to rest on what delights you, what dreams and goals you strive for, what feelings you want to create for yourself. Here are the boards we made this session: …

Creative Spotlight: Biggest Custom Painting Yet!!

  This huge canvas is 5 feet x 3 feet, and is filled with deep blues, seaweed greens, luminescent white, silver & pearl. This painting is a special custom piece I did for my dad as a gift for Christmas. It is giant swirling wave scene, a mesmerizing piece for sure. He says he loves …

Submit to Storyboard 13: A Journal of Pacific History

  Hafa adai folks! It is that time of year for the annual Storyboard Journal publication by the University of Guam. Artists, photographers, writers, poets, creators are welcome to submit pieces to be reviewed for publication. Deadline is Dec. 15th. Here are the details as posted on the Storyboard Journal website: Storyboard, a multilingual journal …