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Inktober 2024: Ink, Paint, Collage

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 150 min read

Inktober 2024: Ink and Paint Scrapes

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 80 min read

Inktober 2024: New Portraits

Gina Greenlee, Author

Dec 11 min read

Inktober 2024: Warming Up

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President Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech, 1979

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 242 min read

President Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech, 1979

President Carter delivered this speech, often referred to as his “Malaise Speech,” on July 15, 1979, while the country was in the midst...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 171 min read

Inktober 2024: Playing with Portraits

I combined elements of my cubist-style portraits with my latest face play: Love it I could do this all day.

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 101 min read

Inktober 2024: Pareidolia

I played with my abstract Neurographic line drawing s from 2023 to visually reimagine them as multiple faces. I love the human brain’s...

Inktober 2024: Cubist/Picasso-Style Portraits

Gina Greenlee, Author

Nov 31 min read

Inktober 2024: Cubist/Picasso-Style Portraits

Last year I inked mostly abstract . This October, I was in a surrealist portrait mood. I drew these freehand by following online...

I Vote for Green (Again): Jill Stein and Butch Ware 2024

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 271 min read

I Vote for Green (Again): Jill Stein and Butch Ware 2024

The state elections office has received and counted my mail-in ballot for November 2024. In voting for Dr. Jill Stein and Dr. Butch...

John Adams: “There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 201 min read

John Adams: “There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

John Adams, the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801, was a central figure in the formation of the United States. He helped to draft...

Play Passions Converge: Collage, Fashion and Line Art

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 131 min read

Play Passions Converge: Collage, Fashion and Line Art

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

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 61 min read

Inktober 2024 Is Coming!

In November and December of this year, I’ll share my 2024 Inktober practice . I hope you plan to participate and if you do, happy inking!

The Tao of Working with Graphic Designers

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 294 min read

The Tao of Working with Graphic Designers

In the Beginning My first book designer was a holdover from my corporate days. I figured, “good enough for Company X, good enough for...

Project Manager Emotional Intelligence: Who’s Your Ally?

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 222 min read

Project Manager Emotional Intelligence: Who’s Your Ally?

Project managers need allies. Some you create. Some you find. Others find you. ◊ ◊ ◊ The first time we met was at a conference call with...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 152 min read

4 Villagers Every Project Manager Needs

It takes a village to successfully manage a project. Effective project managers actively cultivate 4 types of villagers. ◊ ◊ ◊ 1....

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management: Task and Relationship

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 83 min read

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management: Task and Relationship

Successful project management is, among other Emotional Intelligence skills, a balance of task and relationship ; finding common ground...

3 Steps to Creating Common Vocabulary Among Project Sponsors

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 12 min read

3 Steps to Creating Common Vocabulary Among Project Sponsors

Why We Need These Three Steps Each sponsor (usually a senior department manager) uses their own lexicon to describe similar ideas....

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 250 min read

Why I No Longer Attend Group Dinners

The Nation Reports: America’s Two-Party System Failure

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 181 min read

The Nation Reports: America’s Two-Party System Failure

“…A long-standing shibboleth among elite political observers is that, in the end, “the party decides”—meaning that amid the unruly tumult...

The U.S. Two-Party Political System is Broken

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 111 min read

The U.S. Two-Party Political System is Broken

And it has been for decades. Democracy in the United States has been in the death throes. It is now on life support. I have been...