Kaaren Poole

I’m working on a new project – a series of mixed media art project videos featuring spirit animals. There will also be a workbook to help...

Animals are almost always the subjects for my art. Sometimes I’ll portray an animal that’s new to me, such as the bat-eared fox, or one...

While researching spirit animals, I ran across a reference to the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and visited their site on Facebook....

Over the last few months, I’ve continued to work in my art journal as time allowed (mostly on weekends when I take a break from working...

Blue and I have known each other for over a year now—sixteen months, to be exact. I first saw her sitting on the rise behind my house...

Part of working on this art journal spread was making the leaves. I glued magazine snippets of various greens on a piece of printer...

I ran across photos of a series I did a while ago, twelve years to be exact. A gallery had a call out for series of twenty-five 8” x 8”...

The other day, just after I finished my fourth art journal, I flipped through my previous ones just to see if and how my journal spreads...

Or maybe it's 'when the author becomes the characters.' Either way, it's an amazing experience. Last night I was working on writing my...

Four Pups of the Cranberry Tribe in Voyageur National Park in Minnesota Last week, first thing one morning I spent time just sitting on...

I suppose I’ve done about a dozen series over the years. The largest was a series of thirty 6”x6” pieces which were drawing/collage...

Last night I returned to a writing project I’d abandoned over a year ago. The abandonment wasn’t a problem. It was just an extra project...

My second Milkweed Manor book, Dark Days at Milkweed Manor, despite its title, has some bright spots, and the three frogs’ of Three Frogs...

Regardless of how very much I enjoy working in my art journals, they present one special problem that I have trouble dealing with, and...

All of us creatives are probably familiar with “Imposter Syndrome.” It is, apparently, a way too common affliction and, what’s worse,...

To understate it, the past seven months have been some of the most difficult in my life, which has been 76 years so far, so there’s a lot...

I’ve been creating mixed media art journal pages for about a year and a half now. It’s something I never thought I’d be interested in,...

Just wanted to give a shout-out to a marvelous website, Headspace. I joined about five weeks ago when I was overwhelmed and too...

One of the first things I tackled when preparing for my up-coming cross-country move was to go through my stacks of magazines, mining...

There's that old saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Sounds so simple - simple to say and simple to do. But sometimes it's not....