Cloud Nein Arts NC

02/23/2024

Pressure and patience
Covered in earth and water
Forming vessels true

02/21/2024

The collective grief
Of a nation poured out here
With flowers and tears

Haiku #3

Photo taken by me in 2014. Kyiv, Ukraine. During the Revolution of Dignity after the Heavenly Hundred were killed.

02/20/2024

02/17/2024

Happy to make it back to the pottery studio this week and find some bisqued beauties. Also very happy to be able to breathe through my nose again!!

02/04/2024

Sometimes you just need to do a little Art journaling.

Woke up this morning congested and with a sore throat. I haven’t had a full week of feeling okay since Christmas, and I am beyond frustrated.

If you’re local to Wilson, NC and interested in Art journaling, .moore will be teaching a Hot Mess Art Journaling class for us at in a couple of weeks. We’d love for you to join us!!

12/30/2023

2023 has been… a lot. Spending this morning with some pastels and a favorite mug of hot goodness to soothe a painful throat.

It feels like I am barely dragging myself across the finish line of a year filled with health challenges, some serious burnout, and a list of unfinished projects and hopes.

BUT

Despite the challenges, 2023 also brought another year of creating for . I was able to take a couple of pastel classes with and an abstract class with at . And I finished out a year of art learning by throwing my first pieces on a wheel at - a dream come true. I also snagged a standing easel from Hobby Lobby this week - it was a display one with a few missing pieces so it only cost me $30 and works perfectly fine with the help of a couple of C clamps. 🙌🏾🎉

Here’s to 2024 and more art adventures.

12/18/2023

I don’t often take commissions- heck, I hardly ever find time to paint! But finished this special piece today for a friend. And the huge smile and excitement made it so worth it. Next goal: Christmas shopping that I have yet to do 🫣🫣🫣

12/10/2023

The allure of the grill

11/30/2023

I MADE A THING!

Being a beginner is hard. Making art is a vulnerable process. And I’m an introvert who was around 700 kids today 🫠🫠🫠

I really didn’t want to go back to class tonight. 🫣 I knew it was harder than professionals make it look, but week one I trashed everything I attempted. Then week two I wasn’t feeling well and had to miss, and I haven’t had time in my schedule to go to Greenville to practice.

Throw in a group of people I don’t know and feeling a week behind… I considered more than once just bowing out and saying I’d do it later when work isn’t so crazy, when I have more time, when…

But I know better.

So I chose to show up tonight and force my anxiety to take a back seat to attempt again something that I’ve always wanted to learn.

And 👀 I actually made something 🙃

Still not quitting my day job 😆 and definitely not moving to Seagrove anytime soon, but it’s a happy little start.

Thanks Kia Glosson and 💕

11/10/2023

Also this week, the beginning of a five week beginner wheel throwing class at . Even before going into it I wasn’t naive enough to think I’d come out with something amazing. But after class one, I’ll be happy to come out with ANYTHING functional 😅😅😅 Potters make it look so easy 😮‍💨