Artwork by Lori Holdread

I have been focusing for the past year or two mainly on Visual Journaling, preparing to teach a class at Trinidad State Junior College.
I started journaling with Upward Bound students, as a way to demonstrate the flow experience, and have found the process an eye opener for discovering my own visual metaphors, exploring my response to color, archetypes, line quality and other elements of art that felt too intimidating to explore in larger formats or with more expensive media.

Now I realize that the journaling experience can be solo or very community oriented. My journaling students and I have a special bond that I am enjoying immensely. I am posting several journal page examples here, and then you can scroll down to see paintings and clay sculptures, in reverse chronological order, starting with what I am working on now, and going backwards to earlier periods. 

The Face I Show to the World

My Shadow Side

Lady Godiva, the first tax rebel...

This is a journal entry about trust, and letting go.
 

I sold multiple copies of this one. The rebellion theme must resonate.

    
Lady Godiva is owned by one of my dearest friends from middle and high school, Jenny (Weikart) Aguero,
 whose love story is remarkable.  Ask me to tell it to you!

    

 

Here is our DUET painting. I painted the left side, mostly, and Doug painted the right side, mostly.
 And we didn't fight...mostly!

              
These were painted ten years apart. The first in 1999, and then the tree in 2010 during an Art Out in Pinon Canyon.

 
Two more plein air painting attempts.
 

Watercolor- "Joan of Arc" now owned by our friends Bob and Terre Compton

 

     
     Lady Godiva- the original sketch                      Athena Nike in clay

          
Doodling is good for the soul, and keeps you sane in long meetings...

 
This is John Lennon, done in Doug's class as a project


    

       

   Been working in clay a bit, too. I really think, for me, sculpture is the easiest, most natural way to express myself.
   I find drawing and painting a lot harder. People commonly tell me that my sculptured "nekkid ladies" look like dead birds! Yiiiikes!

My Paper Clay experiment...	She turned out beautiful, I think!
Here are three together from a local show...	Finished piece, Titled "Fragility"
"The Sphinx" 2004	This one is done in bronze! "Distortia" 2004
I sold this piece, and forgot to take a picture of it after firing and mounting on stone...	This one sold to Fred Veaugois
The next section features sketches I scanned into my computer, and enhanced in Photo Shop...
"Laurel Tree" Graduation image for Lindsay Sketch, Photoshop            2002	"Cupid and Psyche" Sketch, Photoshop 2003

These are paintings I've done...

   
Mural at Rusk Elementary
Latex   1992

         
 
Oils  1987

Self-portrait,
 Charcoal wash  college 1982