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All the Doings at Shabo-Mekaw
Welcome to Shabo-Mekaw mountain laurelScout, Sunny, and Arlo would like to welcome you to Shabo-Mekaw. Well - actually, Scout would like to eat grass, while Sunny and Arlo would like run down the...
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Story of My Life Story
There were times when I wondered if I'd ever finish this one. It went well at the beginning, but as it progressed I kept getting stuck, so I would put it aside and work on something else for a while....
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At Last, the Spell is Broken...
Well, that's what I had planned to title it, anyway...I'm anticipating the inevitable questions here. Like, "Is she turning into a bird?" "Is she turning back into a human?" "What's that weird thing...
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Creepy Halloween
Creepy Halloween sounds so much more fitting than "Happy Halloween", doesn't it? Halloween is supposed to be creepy, because that's what makes it fun, after all.Whether or not you believe that the...
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Something to Share, and a Give-away
I have a few pieces of good news and some other things to share with you. First of all, I don't think I mentioned that one of my entries was accepted into the National Collage Society'sThere were over...
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Things I Forgot
If this title seems a bit scary to you, just imagine how I feel. If I actually included everything I forgot, this post would go on forever... Luckily, though, I don't remember most of it - ha! Every...
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Give-away Winners
Hello, my turkey-stuffed friends! I apologize for not posting sooner, but between the holiday festivities and the sad death :( of my camera, this is my first chance to take a photo, which had to be...
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Time Management, Forward Momentum, and a Revelation
Since I started working on several pieces at once, I've found my productivity has greatly increased. This shouldn't come as any great surprise, of course, because it's really just common sense, but I...
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The View From My Window
This is literally the view from my back window - you can see the screen - because it was so cold I didn't want to open the door or go outside.I was surprised yesterday morning when the phone rang,...
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The Silence of Sycamores in Winter
You can almost hear the absence of sound...it speaks of winter sleep, and waiting;the in-drawn breath of precious life force the close-held silence of nothing wasted. The Sycamore~ Wendell BerryIn the...
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Happy Always
The Journeyby Mary OliverOne day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old...
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What it's About
One of my favorite art instructors was/is well known for asking us the tough questions. First and foremost: What is it about? "Yes, I see what it is," she'd say, "but what is it about?" What it...
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Searching for RoyGBiv
I hope I'm not too late, but I was so inspired by all the beautiful reds I've seen that I decided to post some, too. What I'm talking about is Jennifer Coyne Qudeen's "Searching for RoyGBiv", in which...
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Time to Push?
I don't really have much time to read art business books or blog posts, but I try to spend at little a little bit of my rare and cherished free time learning about how to be an artist, as opposed to...
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I don't know about all of you, but this frigid gray weather is beginning to drag me down a bit. I found this inspiring video about artist Kal Barteski, and thought I'd share it here. Her...
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What's on My Easel
I promised to show you what's on my easel, so here goes. The piece on the left is one that was already deemed "finished"- an illustration for my yet to be written book, called, "Crow Creates the...
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RoyGBiv: Orange
What a wonderful time of year for orange! If there's anything we need more at this very gray and white time of year than a shot of orange (except Spring, of course), I don't know what it would be....
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For Emma
For Emmaingredients: vintage book cover, vintage lace, vintage book pages and ephemera, Derwent watercolor pencils, stitchingI found this written in a 100 year-old book:Remember me when death shall...
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Glimpses
Glimpsesingredients: vintage book cover and spine; monotypes, ephemera, ribbon, stitching 7.5 x 9.5 inchesI seem to rememberbright flashesof clarityI could almost touchbefore they...
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RoYELLOWgbiv
It's hard to believe it's the third Thursday of the month already! Though I've been anxiously waiting for signs of Spring - which I'm beginning to see, though none are yellow - time still seems to fly...
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