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...
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CARRIE'S JOURNAL
Some notes and how-to's from my journey creating hand-painted silk
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Carrie Wright
- Dec 27, 2022
- 8 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Oct 10, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Apr 26, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Apr 9, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Mar 9, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Feb 20, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Feb 15, 2020
- 4 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Aug 16, 2019
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Mar 19, 2019
- 7 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Jan 5, 2019
- 8 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Jun 11, 2018
- 9 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Jun 3, 2018
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- May 25, 2018
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- May 18, 2018
- 6 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- May 11, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Apr 27, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Apr 22, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Carrie Wright
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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