Alchemy Stones (@alchemystones)
Art project of @denmarkguy. Hand painted mandala stones with a spiritual and metaphysical angle.
Art and Creativity Journal: An Inevitable Day of Office Work!
I know I have been putting this off for a while, so today I decided to knuckle under and have a day of purely doing office work and following up on administrative odds and ends. Because Alchemy Sto...
Art and Creativity Journal: Only a Month to Go!
It always surprises me just how fast time moves on by! I'm certain the experience is different for full-time artists who are only focused on their creative endeavors, but as a definite "sometimer" ...
Art and Creativity Journal: The Tiniest Things
In the last update I was talking about painting the small things that serve us well as "impulse items" at shows and festivals. While double checking and quality sorting my smallest unpainted stones...
Art and Creativity Journal: Painting Some Small Stuff
One of the things about doing outside events and shows is that we invariably have to have an extensive stock of quick pick-up impulse items in the under $10 range. Meticulously hand painting small ...
Art and Creativity Journal: Routine Busy Work
Trying to get a bit of momentum going, I spent much of the day doing some routine "busy work" relating to getting ready for fall show season. It's not exactly "creative," but it still has to be don...
Art and Creativity Journal: More Newly Finished Work
Sometimes, you just have to forge ahead regardless of whether you feel like it or not. So, today I made myself go to work on finishing another batch of stones that had been painted sometime during ...
Art and Creativity Journal: New Work... Finished
Finally managed to put a finish coat on painted stones from earlier in the spring, resulting in what I guess we would call new inventory even though it is kind of old! Anyway, getting the stones fi...
Art and Creativity Journal: Updates Are Time Consuming!
Trying to stay true to my word (to myself), I spent some time today working on social media updates. Specifically, I was responding to a request from Patreon to "update my profiles" because they we...
Art and Creativity Journal: Work Resumes!
Well, we have arrived at the second half of the year 2026, and even though calendars are a pretty arbitrary thing it seems like a good reason to resume creative work, or at least to try to! I want ...
Art and Creativity Journal: Beach Tripping
Last week, we finally got away for a trip to the "big" beach, out on Washington's Pacific coast. These trips to the Pacific coast matter because the stones there tend to be much more "even" shaped,...
Art and Creativity Journal: "Big" Beach Trip Upcoming!
Although I have sporadically mentioned that I could really use some high quality stones to paint on — stones that are better than what we can find here on our local beaches — we've never gotten aro...
Art and Creativity Journal: Events Falling Into Place
Although my creativity hasn't been anything to write home about lately, a few peripheral things are falling into place. Specifically, our outside events schedule is starting to take shape for the s...
Art and Creativity Journal: June Gloom in May
Greetings, from the creative doldrums of my mind! The climate around here usually provides us with something we call the "June Gloom." It has something to do with daytime heating, the coldness of t...
Art and Creativity Journal: Questioning My Assumptions
Lately, I have not been feeling very creative. Each time I have sat down in an attempt to start painting something, I've gotten back up after about 5 minutes and decided that I wanted to go do some...
Art and Creativity Journal: Things Work... Until They Don't
So, I managed to make it 13 weeks into my good intentions of making a weekly post of creative work from the previous week. And then things pretty much fell apart. I have pretty much attempted perio...