Tag: creative process
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Sheltering in place
So, what are you all doing in self quartine? Reading? Yes! Facetime? Yes! Video Games? Yes! Hobbies? Yes! Housework? Errr, um Surprise, I actually am doing housework, among other things. You see, I had scheduled this week off since January. A friend from overseas was going to be visiting. So. due to COVID-19, he wasn’t […]
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IN the wink of an eye
For those of you who noticed…….I took down my last post. For those of you who didn’t notice…it’s just as well. I was working on this, but was tired and sick…didn’t I once title a post, “Friends don’t let other friends draw sick”. If I didn’t I should have. I put up a post and […]
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I Wanted to Sell Out!
But no one was buying. (Warning: Bad art displayed, here) I always wanted to make a living with my art. At first, I wanted to design posters. I assumed that if a subject appealed to me, then it would appeal to other people. However, I think most artists create with that in mind. I’ve been […]
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Stick a fork in it
Sometimes, the hardest thing in art is calling it quits. I don’t mean art totally, but each piece has to have an ending, and it’s usually far short of the perfection that you intended. So it is with Sunny Chair Paradise. I like it, but it doesn’t live up to what I’d like it to […]
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Where’s my Mauve pencil?
No one will ever accuse me of being a neat freak. Messiness seems to run in the family. Here’s a photo of my studio. Somehow, the disorganization hasn’t kept me from efficiently doing art…in fact, I think it helps. I’ve seen studios where the colored pencils are meticulously kept in color coordinated containers. I think […]