Jenny Sue Mark Academic Blog

Category: Creativity

  • Halloween Costumed “Grr”

    This was a collaboration piece. My husband is much more of an abstract artist in the painterly style than I am, and after I sketched out the centerpiece here, he filled in the background for me in his clever, abstract way. After that, I finished the centerpiece, which is of the Invader Zim character “Grr”…

  • White Lily

    This painting is a new experiment for me, where I took a photo of a white lily I had seen and converted it into an artistic interpretation. I chose to leave the stamens out of the flower to keep the flower pristine and perfect – white, with a hint of blue. I tried a new…

  • The Smoking Guitarist

      This painting turned out much better than I had anticipated, and I really love how it can sit either on its side or upright. I took an image of a guitarist, and made it my own. The proportions of her body were difficult, but I think they came together very nicely hear, making me…

  • The Mouse at Sea

    The cat could see a mouse floating on a piece of wood in the sea. He couldn’t wait to meet this little morsel – a piece of meat was all he could think. “Come here,” he shouted aloud to the little mouse. “Let me save you.” Given his predicament, the mouse allowed that maybe the…

  • The Shattering of Worlds

    This micro story was published in the University of Phoenix’s College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Newsletter.   Lauren opens the package and smiles. Another globe for the collection, this one yellow on a brass mount, carefully packaged in bubble wrap. She gently takes it out of the box, spotting the card tucked beneath.…