Art Practice

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

Jun 235 min read

Game Changer: The Artist’s Way

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...

Black Like Me: Representation in Animation

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 171 min read

Black Like Me: Representation in Animation

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

Gina Greenlee, Author

Mar 101 min read

Play: Yes, You CAN Draw

“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,...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jan 211 min read

Play: What a Doll!

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

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 30, 20231 min read

The Democracy of Habit

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...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Oct 2, 20220 min read

Just for Kicks

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.”

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 30, 20211 min read

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.”

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

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 10, 20211 min read

The Art of (Collage) Stripping

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...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Apr 18, 20211 min read

Fun with Free Magazines

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

It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity

Gina Greenlee, Author

Sep 5, 20202 min read

It’s Not too Late or too Silly to Indulge Your Creativity

“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...

Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 24, 20202 min read

Steampunk Chicken: Opening the Mind with Surrealist Art

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

“The arts…are a very human way of making life more bearable…”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 20, 20203 min read

“The arts…are a very human way of making life more bearable…”

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...

How Visual Art Practice Advances Writing

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 12, 20202 min read

How Visual Art Practice Advances Writing

A year-long journey in Expressive Arts Training in 2011 helped me to understand how my writing benefitted from varied art modalities such...

In art practice “Don’t be afraid to do the same thing repeatedly…”

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 6, 20202 min read

In art practice “Don’t be afraid to do the same thing repeatedly…”

“One artwork is the inspiration for another.” Shaun McNiff Digital and handmade collages by Gina Greenlee. Female portrait line drawing...

Gina Greenlee, Author

May 13, 20192 min read

Jack Up Your Creativity

Years ago I attended Boston’s Open Studio Weekend. At the time, I was living in an artist colony in Hartford, Connecticut. This was a...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Aug 6, 20182 min read

The Energy of Completion

Writing books takes time. It needn’t take years but it will take months. You are making progress but it will appear subtle. Until you...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jul 2, 20182 min read

All Chaos is Not Created Equal

In America – my native country and the world culture I know best – we tend to denigrate chaos. American culture is designed to minimize...

Gina Greenlee, Author

Jun 18, 20184 min read

Giving “Messy” New Meaning

As a little girl I loved to play with clay, paints, dyes and markers. My mother had a fit when she saw our bathtub stained after an...