Tag: iris
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A Rose by Any Other Name
Still looks good in a picture with a cat. Okay, enough about cats. Do I hear a collective sigh of relief? I’ve been working on Rose Garden. I was working on the first version while tired and sick, and it came out awful. Put it away to look at later, maybe it would look…
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Hit the Road, Rox…..
I’m really looking forward to Spring. I probably said that last year, and the year before…..but it bears repeating. C’mon Spring. I thought about it and I miss doing art fairs. I managed to score a white tent on Ebay, and as time goes on find creatively inexpensive display items. i finally found a…
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The Grand Finale
All my bitchin’ and moanin” has come to an end. I’m finished with “Floral Overload”. Honestly, I haven’t sweated so much over a drawing in years, but I like the result. Months from now, it will be the result that means anything to me. Now that I’ce done something really cheerful and lively,…
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Will you stop complaining, for God’s sake, woman!
Honestly, I was going to go into another rant on how bored I am drawing flowers. Then I realized, you’re probably bored hearing me complain…so, peace. As I go along, though, I find my flowers are becoming more scribbly. It still works, though. I usually don’t show my work this far along (rather give an…
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A Flower a Day Keeps the Psychiatrist Away
Yes, doing artwork is good therapy…..for me at least. It gave me a reason to live, when depression was clouding my perceptions as to the quality of my life. These days, I’ve been so busy, that it is literally a flower a day. So, rather than ruin the surprise of the finish of “Floral Overload”…
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These are the Breaks!
I’ve gotten far enough with the full-sized version of “Floral Overload’, to show a work in progress….and here ’tis: The trick is, to make every individual part a complete composition, so every area could make a complete drawing. Or so I’ve figured out, as I go along. I”m having great fun with this! But…
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