Leanne Ford’s FEEL FREE magazine shows how creative people live and work, how artists play, and how the reader can do the same. In the second issue, we include a fun creative conversation between Leanne and her favorite, THE DIANE KEATON; new how-to’s like turning trash into art, using natural light in photography, and other fun ideas to get creativity stirring—straight from the artists’ mouths; fresh ideas (coffee paint on paper lanterns); “recipes” for fail-proof decorating (checkerboard floors forever); a quiz and playlist; and more gifted art that readers can tear out to hang on their walls. This second issue also features the iconic Eames house in California, artist Barbara Hepworth’s inspiring studio in England, and Leanne’s first national reveal of her new home in the country-ish, including before and after shots. FEEL FREE magazine curates a space where readers can experience a collaboration of creation. Joyful, elevated, and funky, fun, and undone, FEEL FREE magazine breaks down interior design and artistic processes, and gives them back to the people. FEEL FREE magazine will give the reader the rules and the confidence to break them all!
Julia Child once said…
Leanne Ford's - Feel Free Magazine: Volume 2
ONE MAN’S TRASH…
GESSO GEOMETRY • This one will make ya feel better about that late-night online order!
BEFORE YA RECYCLE, PRECYCLE! • Maybe we DID know what we were doing in college! Instead of pitching wine bottles, glass jars, and tin cans, give them another rotation and go grab some foliage from your yard.
Diane Keaton, an abstract actress
ARTIST in residence • Photographer and author Leslie Williamson gets a rare peek into sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s studio.
A-MUSED • How Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture inspired a jewelry artisan.
Painting with light • Photographer, artist, and friend Amy Neunsinger on her “follow the sun” philosophy…
Is anybody home! • Introducing one of the many reasons we left LA—to raise our daughter in the country-ish of Pennsylvania.
Workbook
To buy or not to buy that old fixer-upper?
turn it up, s’il vous plaît…
Alexandra the Great • Painting everyday is an exercise in trust. I have to lean into a childlike, beginner’s mind. I have to stay open to all the possibilities and newness. For as long as I can remember, my favorite word has been “wonderment.” And painting, for me, is inextricably linked with wonderment
ART FOR MONEY • Remember that scene in the movie Big where the fortune machine says, “Your wish is granted”? Well, if I was Zoltar, I’d have little motivational messages inside, like “KNOW YOUR WORTH.” So here—consider this your fortune. And fortune.
THE ART THAT LIGHTS YOU UP • Meet the artist behind Reese Emry Design.
Checkerboard for the WIN! • A weekend project may just save your boring old floors from demo day!
“WAY-IT-SHOULD-BE-NESS” • My talented friend Ngaio Parr uses watercolor in her interpretation of one of the Eames’s most loved projects, their California home.
“EVERYTHING is architecture.” • Words of wisdom from Charles Eames
WHO INSPIRED… EAMES? ISAMU NOGUCHI
The magic of movement & light • Modern dance professor Molly Perez on Martha Graham’s take on the art of movement.
THIS as THAT • Let’s think of new ways to use pieces we love.
Sources
Free & clear • Ever since I was a kid, my taste in art has … well, let’s just say, I have champagne taste on a beer budget. Since I could never fully afford the art I wanted, I would buy old art books to rip the pages out and hang on the walls. So here you go, free and clear, eight of my favorite artists, kind enough to share their art with you.
What is perfection anyway? …It’s the death...