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sue clancy – artist

  • on seeing story stuff

    September 5, 2018

    Beauty and wisdom are all around us if we’re attuned to look for them. Like a mystery story detective looking for clues we train our eyes to “see” what is there. This is partially a function of he way our brains work. We see what we expect to see. How broad or narrow that expectation…

    A Creative Life, art exhibit, art gallery, artistic inspirations, fine art, still life, visual story
    art exhibit, art opening, artistic inspirations, artistic life, artistic practice, beauty, caplan art designs, cherries, coffee, creative life, daily life, exhibit opening, fine art, life, mental health, mundane, opening party, ordinary life, risk, seeing, stories, story stuff, stuff, vacation places, wisdom
  • writing about art

    August 30, 2018

    There was a time when I felt that writing words-in-a-row about visual art was rather like using lemon juice to describe honey. But somewhere along the way I realized that being a professional artist out in the “real world” meant I didn’t have to write as if I were in an academic university. That was…

    A Creative Life, art exhibit, art gallery, art techniques, artistic inspirations, fine art, sketchbook, still life, story, visual story, words and pictures, writing
    art, book, coffee, creative thinking, crossword puzzle, fine art, forest park, hike, novel, Portland Oregon, Powell’s bookstore, story, visual story, writing, writing about art
  • cozy mystery story stuff

    August 25, 2018

    In September at Caplan Art Designs www.caplanartdesigns.com I’m doing a one-person fine art exhibit titled “Story Stuff”. And you can thank the literary genre of the “cozy mystery” for it. You see I enjoy detective novels and movies. I particularly enjoy cozy mystery novels because I like the inherent premise in them that a regular…

    A Creative Life, animals in art, art exhibit, art gallery, artistic inspirations, Cats in art, Dogs in Art, fine art, music in art, small things, still life, story, visual story
    animals in art, art exhibit, books, caplan art designs, cozy mystery, cozy mystery novel, drink, fine art, fine art techniques, food, genre blurring, literary genre, mundane life, mystery genre, ordinary life, Pacific Northwest, short story, small objects, still life, story, story genres, visual story, writing and illustrating
  • stirring occasions

    August 13, 2018

    As a long-time coffee lover I’ve been recently learning about tea. More than half of the world drinks tea and/or has some kind of tea ceremony. As far as I can tell the philosophy of tea is basically a way of valuing mundane life – in a somewhat carefully curated way. The ordinary as a…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, creative thinking, fine art, kitchen art, small things, still life, visual thinking
    bone china, British Library Crime Classics, coffee, daily life, detective mystery, fine art, impossible objects, mundane, mystery stories, ordinary, Poisoned Pen Press, spoon, tea, tea cups
  • more cats book progress

    August 7, 2018

    I’d written recently here about my progress towards making a 22 page full color book of my cat themed artwork. Well, I’ve gotten my “proof copy” in the snail-mail, showed it to Hawkeye my studio supervisor cat – and my wife, a cat-lover – and all of us approved of the print quality! Even Rusty,…

    A Creative Life, animals in art, artist book, cat portrait, Cats in art, fine art, published art
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  • from my kitchen sketchbook

    August 2, 2018

    It’s been hot and I’ve been busy – so my cooking activities have been of the quick-fix-no-stove sort. To catch you up here’s the last kitchen sketchbook post: https://sueclancy.wordpress.com/from-my-kitchen-sketchbook/ And here are some recent recipe gouache and ink sketches from my kitchen sketchbook (BTW: when we ran out of fresh strawberries I substituted frozen blueberries in…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, comfort food, kitchen art, Not-So-Sketchy-Food, sketchbook, sketchbook suppers, visual thinking
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  • Junes treasures

    July 28, 2018

    Okay so I know it’s July but I just finished this painting inspired by all of the strawberries, shortcake and whipped cream I enjoyed during June.

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, fine art, kitchen art, small things, still life
    fine art, food art, food painting, june, still life, strawberries, strawberry, whipped cream
  • cats book progress

    July 24, 2018

    I do better now, writing words-in-a-row, than I did once upon a time. Reading text has never been a problem for me – but speaking, and writing. Whew! Lets just say good speech therapists, theatre-acting coaches and writing class instructors are worth their weights in all the precious things in the world combined. As a…

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    advance copy, artist books, books, Cats by Sue Clancy, coffee table books, Dogs by Sue Clancy, fine art, international, multi-cultural, reading, speaking, travel, words and pictures, writing
  • coffee and conversations with friends

    July 20, 2018

    I’ve been thinking of how essential friendly conversations are – and remembering a story Dr. Bob Hoke* once told. It went like this. Once upon a time there was a king who was very busy from morning until evening chairing meetings and making decisions. When the king went home in the evening he wanted perfect…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, ebook, still life, story, words and pictures
    acrylic, coffee, coffee cups, conversation, Dr. Bob Hoke, ebook, First Aid Kit, gouache, painting, short story, stumptown coffee, the good life
  • stems pits and all

    July 15, 2018

    Rainier cherries are still available for sale here in the Pacific Northwest. They’re everywhere. Yesterday I saw a father and his young son eating cherries from a bag. The father was coaching the son on how to carefully chew the cherry, extract the pit and spit it into a cup. Watching that reminded me that…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, fine art, still life, visual story
    bowl, cherries, cherry, coping skills, dealing with adversity, life, ordinary life, Pacific Northwest, pits, rainier cherries, stems
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