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CARRIE'S JOURNAL
Some notes and how-to's from my journey creating hand-painted silk
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Happy New Year, Happy New Everything
When I closed up my Christmas pop-up shop the day after Christmas, I wasn't sure how my circumstances were going to progress. The shop...

Carrie Wright
Jan 29, 20235 min read
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2022 Kaboom
I'm fairly certain 2022 will always be the year I mark as the major transition point in my career of being a professional artist. And...

Carrie Wright
Dec 27, 20228 min read
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Just Keep Going!
I've been meaning to reach out to all of you, putting it off, thinking about what in the world to write about that isn't a waste of your...

Carrie Wright
Oct 10, 20216 min read
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Pivot and Try
Along with the rest of you, I've been contemplating new ideas, inventing, innovating, pivoting. I think I'm seeing a whole new wave of...

Carrie Wright
Apr 26, 20207 min read
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Distracting with Beauty
I've seen several social media posts from fellow independent artists lately all having a similar theme: how do we justify continuing to...

Carrie Wright
Apr 9, 20206 min read
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Hand-Painted Plaids
It's my new favorite thing to paint! So much color, so many possibilities, so much joy! If you're following me on Instagram, you've...

Carrie Wright
Mar 9, 20207 min read
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Colorful Educated Guesses
Obviously, one of the most important aspects of my silk painting is color. Putting different colors together in an overall palette for...

Carrie Wright
Feb 26, 20203 min read
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No Resist Painting
In preparation for the 10th annual Indiana Artisan Marketplace coming up the first weekend of April, I've been making a collection of...

Carrie Wright
Feb 20, 20203 min read
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Jennifer & Mickie
In the first photo above is the original scarf I designed and hand-painted for a dear friend as a birthday gift in March 2018. When I...

Carrie Wright
Feb 15, 20204 min read
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The Phoenix & Other Tid Bits
It’s been an eventful past four months, and since you started this journey with me, I thought you might appreciate some updates. To...

Carrie Wright
Aug 16, 20196 min read
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
What a flurry of decisions, painting, problem-solving and little sleep these last several weeks have been. Before I go any further, I...

Carrie Wright
Mar 19, 20197 min read
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Our Transatlantic Adventure
Happy New Year everyone! Before departing on our grand adventure, I promised several people a blog post upon my return. I’ve been back...

Carrie Wright
Jan 5, 20198 min read
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The Recipe for Wonder
In last week’s post, The Importance of Being You, I asked a few hard questions related to how we are inspired early in our growing up...

Carrie Wright
Jun 11, 20189 min read
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The Importance of Being You
I had a startling revelation a couple of weeks ago while designing and painting the Gingko scarf, which begins with the story of these...

Carrie Wright
Jun 3, 20186 min read
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Steam, Rinse, Photograph
This is the third and final post of the three part series about my process, which began with Nuts and Bolts. I've been hesitant to share...

Carrie Wright
May 25, 20186 min read
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Silk Painting 101
NEW 2022 RELEASE: SILK PAINTING 101 ONLINE COURSE! Click here to learn more! There are some basic facts to know about silk painting. Some...

Carrie Wright
May 18, 20186 min read
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Nuts and Bolts
I've had many friends comment through the years, "I'd really like to see how you do this!" Today, Part One of how I do what I do. When I...

Carrie Wright
May 11, 20183 min read
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Ever Hopeful
I live in a small midwestern town called Muncie, Indiana where back in the 1920s-1930s a husband-wife sociologist team, Robert and Helen...

Carrie Wright
Apr 27, 20182 min read
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Time: Our Nonrenewable Resource
I believe time is the most precious resource we have, and none of us knows how much of it we are granted. We can only spend time. We...

Carrie Wright
Apr 22, 20183 min read
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Making Meditations
I recently made a gift for a dear friend. She asked if she could commission me for a scarf that included poppies and some of the verses...

Carrie Wright
Apr 13, 20182 min read
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