About: Margaret L. Been
- Website
- http://northernreflections.wordpress.com/
- Details
- Margaret Longenecker Been is a born-again Christian, a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, poet, free lance writer, watercolor--mixed media collage--fiber artist, and lover of life in beautiful Wisconsin. For over 40 years MLB's poetry, essays, and articles have appeared in national and regional publications, including Hearst's COUNTRY LIVING, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATOR, COUNTRYSIDE, GRIT, and many others. Margaret Longenecker Been has received awards for her writing, from WISCONSIN REGIONAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION annual Jade Ring Contest, the BO CARTER contest, CHRISTIAN WRITERS ALIVE, and the AMY FOUNDATION. She has taught poetry and creative writing workshops for adults and children since 1980, and has published 3 chapbooks.
Posts by Margaret L. Been:
-
May 6, 2021 Spring . . .
-
April 2, 2021 HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY!
-
March 21, 2021 How am I doing with the cat?
-
February 22, 2021 A One-Track Mind
-
February 13, 2021 Of Woods and Flowers
-
February 4, 2021 THE GOODNESS OF GOUACHE!
-
January 18, 2021 MORE LEAVES
-
January 15, 2021 A Foray into Acrylics
-
January 14, 2021 Back Again, with Fractured Leaf Art
-
April 3, 2020 Ever Stretching!
Recent Comments
Margaret L. Been on Spring . . . dianalrandolph on Spring . . . Mother Hen on How am I doing with the c… Margaret L. Been on How am I doing with the c… Margaret L. Been on How am I doing with the c… Blog Stats
- 45,925 hits
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- "English Garden" (16)
- A Passion for Life (77)
- Abstract Expressionism (75)
- Abstract realism in landscape painting (30)
- Acrylics (12)
- Affirming life through art (102)
- Alcohol Ink Painting (1)
- Apples (3)
- Arches 140 lb. cold press paper (34)
- Arches 140# rough texture paper (1)
- Arches 300# paper (1)
- Art (109)
- Art and Poetry (3)
- Art History (9)
- Art in a crisis (5)
- Art inspired by music (1)
- Art Shows (7)
- Art Teachers (17)
- Art Therapy (41)
- Battling Closed Minds and Limited Imaginations (19)
- Beautiful Autumn! (6)
- Blood Moon (1)
- Books can be the greatest art teachers! (19)
- Brian Jacques' REDWALL CHRONICLES (1)
- Cashmere and Wool (4)
- Cats (1)
- chiaroscuro (1)
- Christian Art (1)
- Cliff Dwelling of the Southwest USA (4)
- Clock Collection (1)
- Collage (4)
- Collage art (15)
- Collections (4)
- Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs (2)
- Condo Gardens (17)
- Condo patio gardens (17)
- Creation–the Third Day (1)
- Creative Living in a Condo (125)
- Cubism (1)
- da Vinci (1)
- Daylight is Increasing (11)
- Decorating with Clocks (1)
- Dog Hair (3)
- Don't be conventional in decorating! (6)
- Don't forget to play! (30)
- Dreaming of Spring (11)
- Easter (3)
- En Plein Air (1)
- End of the Day Glass (2)
- Enough Winter! (6)
- Exhibiting Art (2)
- Farmer's Markets (1)
- Fauvism (5)
- Fenton Glass (1)
- Fiber Arts (4)
- For writers (2)
- Freezing Time (1)
- Friends! (5)
- Funk and Funky (60)
- Funky Patio (5)
- gallery wrap canvas (2)
- Garage Sale Treasure (7)
- Garden Paintings (15)
- Georgia O'Keefe (1)
- Gesso (1)
- Glass Bottle Collections (5)
- Glen Eyrie Colorado (1)
- God's Power Revealed in Weather (3)
- Good times with grandchildren (4)
- Gouache (47)
- Great Reading (3)
- Greeting Card Art (2)
- Hand Spinning (2)
- Happily damaged frontal lobes (1)
- Heat! (2)
- Impressionism (12)
- Inktense water soluble ink pencils (2)
- Inspiration from books (5)
- Inspiration from reading (4)
- Jesus is Lord! (3)
- JUNK GARDENS (2)
- JUNK! (1)
- Junking and antiquing are wonderful therapy (6)
- Knitting (4)
- Lake Superior (4)
- Les Fauves (3)
- Life in the 1930s and 40s (2)
- Light! (9)
- Lilacs (5)
- Making Note Cards (1)
- Matisse (3)
- Memories (14)
- Mixed-Media Art (8)
- Mixwed Media Painting (6)
- Monet (6)
- Movements in Art (13)
- Music Therapy (5)
- My piano (6)
- Negative Painting (2)
- New Mexico (6)
- New Year! (4)
- Nostalgic Reflections (20)
- Oil Painting (6)
- oil pastels (2)
- Old treasures (3)
- Overcoming artists' block (3)
- Paddington Bear (1)
- Paint what you love! (75)
- Painting Color and Light (53)
- Painting inspiration from reading (2)
- Painting Sailboats (4)
- Painting Trees (2)
- Painting Tricks (4)
- Painting with Markers (1)
- Pastels, Hard/Soft/ and Oil (1)
- Pen and Ink (2)
- Pioneers (1)
- Poetry by Margaret Longenecker Been (6)
- Pontillism (1)
- Post Impressionists (4)
- Power Surge in Late Winter (5)
- Reading (4)
- Recycling Failed Art (5)
- Redeeming failed watercolor paintings (12)
- Redwing Blackbirds (4)
- Rembrandt (2)
- Repeating a theme in art (7)
- Rummage Sales! (3)
- Sailboat paintings (3)
- Savoring Summer (5)
- Second Day of Creation (1)
- Shirley Trevena, artist (1)
- Soap Making (2)
- Southwestern Art (13)
- Speeding up the Spring! (7)
- Spinning (5)
- Spring (4)
- Spring Painting (7)
- Spring Paintings (14)
- Spring Poetry (1)
- Still Life Paintings (15)
- Summer in Wisconsin (12)
- Summer paintings (8)
- Sunrise sunset (4)
- Taylor Ikin Fine Artist (1)
- The American West (12)
- The artist's personal "voice" (46)
- The Beauty of "Hand Made" (30)
- The deep cold days (10)
- The Fun of Being Unconventional! (52)
- The Great American Glass Industries (2)
- The joy of experimenting with art (120)
- The joy of making a mess! (120)
- The joy of making art (137)
- The joy of music (9)
- The joy of sharing our art (94)
- The joy of the sketchbook (4)
- The joys of antiquing (7)
- The Last Supper (1)
- The Old Masters (4)
- The Wild Things (7)
- Therapy Outings (1)
- Thomas Kinkade (2)
- Tracks in the Snow (1)
- Transparent Watercolors (47)
- Trees (1)
- Uncategorized (12)
- Vintage Treasures (7)
- Waiting for Spring (17)
- Watercolor and Gouachw (2)
- watercolor art (41)
- watercolor crayons (8)
- Watercolor painting (115)
- Watercolor Paintings (22)
- Watercolor tricks such as salt and cling film (12)
- Watercolors (101)
- Watercolors and Gouache (35)
- Way out Creativity (58)
- Weaving (2)
- Winter in Wisconsin (13)
- Winter Paintings (8)
- Winter Survival (11)
- Wisconsin summer (3)
- Wisconsin waters (5)
- Wonderful Hoarding (4)
- Wonderful places to shop! (3)
- Yarn (4)
- YUPO paper (65)
Blogroll
- A Girl and Her Brush
- Alicia's Roses
- Art Blogs 4 U
- Colleen's Photography
- Darlene's Poetical Pursuits
- Devotional Insights from Scriptures
- In Other Words and Pictures
- Ingrid's Hope Blog
- Living Abundantly with Illness and Chronic Pain—Margaret Been's Blog
- Making a House a Home
- Margaret L. Been's Grace with Salt
- Margaret L. Been's Northern Reflections
- Margaret L. Been's Upholding Biblical Truth in an Age of Apostasy
- Mary's Nest
- Panache on a Pittance—maximum style on a minimum budget
- Patti's amazing photography and essays on life
- Poems from Oostburg, WI, USA
Top Posts & Pages