AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

I've been trying to upload an image for three days now - can't get anything but a little red x. I've changed the size to weblog size, changed to .gif from .jpg and now I can't even get a preview of it. Argh...

I'm supposed to be upstairs doing "stuff" - - - all I want to do is work on some art. Summers are tough - kids around all the time, breaks concentration. I admire artists who can get work done while their children are home. Those who will peacefully sit with Mom or Dad, creating their own art. Is this a myth? Mine always have questions, want to go somewhere, etc.

Of course, that's family life. I LOVE family life, but sometimes I get in my art "zone" and I want to build walls around me. So I don't even start art because I don't want to wall off my family that way...

Hi all; I'm new here and looking forward to connecting. I'm pretty isolated, which is good for getting work done, but sometimes it just sucks the life out of me. This should prove a good antidote. I'm on a low right now after a complete manic spring, which was excellent for creativity but awful for sleep. The fam. suffered.

I'm getting us ready for a trip to Seattle/Bellingham/Lummi Island to visit former Peace Corps (dh's) friends. I'll be taking along the sketchbook; maybe there'll be something worth posting. Friends have been traveling around the world this summer and have brought me all sorts of wonderful ephemera, too, for my collages and assemblages. Now I'll have "stuff" from the NW, too.