Author: Jodee Clifford

  • Spinning at Tinicum

    I have some exciting news to share! My painting, “Spinning,” won first place in oil painting at the Tinicum Arts Festival last weekend. While I always put my heart into my work, this recognition is truly humbling. It’s from a series of paintings where social west coast swing dancers dance lead-follow, improv. Language and truth…

  • Exhibitions

    Exhibitions

    2024 The Arts Barn, Tinicum Arts Festival, Tinicum Park, Erwinna, PA, 2024. First Place in Oil Painting. A&C (Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County) Members Show at Freeman Hall in Doylestown juried by Lisa Tremper Hanover. June 2024 Summer Exhibits at the Winery, Artsbridge. Angelico Winery, Lambertville, NJ. 2024 The Spring Salon “Art Across the…

  • Audiobooks

    Audiobooks

    Last year, Honeysuckle Stitchery gifted me a subscription to Audible. Talk about a great gift. I didn’t know what to expect but I have heard some excellent audiobooks and courses. My inner nerd is into non-fiction, brain stuff, sociology, language and science-y ideas about the experience of life. I love learning about formal studies technical…

  • Favorites

    Favorites

    Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things (from Amazon).

  • 5 Coolest Heat Changing Coffee Mugs

    5 Coolest Heat Changing Coffee Mugs

    5 Magical Heat Activated Color-Changing Coffee Mugs that double as excellent gifts. Mildly obsessed with transformation If you’ve seen my series of Paint Forms, you might have noticed how much time I’ve spent thinking about transformation lately. I like these mugs a lot. Great Nudes Heat Changing Coffee Mug Add Hot Liquid, Watch the Figures…

  • My First Full Frame Camera

    My First Full Frame Camera

    Reasons I love my Canon R5 This full frame camera by Canon takes extraordinary images in excellent quality. This versatile lightweight camera takes high quality images and video. It’s my first full frame camera, and I am beyond satisfied with the images it takes. Let’s point out the obvious – the 45 megapixel full-frame sensor…

  • Studio Shopping List: Coffee

    Behind the scenes My studio has two rooms and three coffee makers. In college, my ritual to get into that creative mode was to grab a Seattle’s Best from the A-Wing coffee cart at Stockton. For a few years after graduation, I was a barista at the hospital coffee bar, Second Cup. To call me…

  • Paint assembly 

    Paint assembly 

    Mixed media work where paint materials are assembled in collage as three dimensional elements atop colored ground to draw relationship between process, presence, and transformation.

  • Web Hosting

    Whoa! Hosting Woes For 20 years, a popular web hosting company served my website. Initially, it was fine however, recent years I noticed a concerning decline in service quality. Frustrating charges, condescending customer service interactions, and hidden fees were way too frequent. 3X Bill, without the service The breaking point came when my hosting fee…