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sue clancy – artist

  • Time to enjoy the mundane

    Time to enjoy the mundane

    October 23, 2023

    My art exhibit continues at Caplan Art Designs, it’s going well and is in capable hands. I find I’m now enjoying quiet time to explore thoughts towards my exhibits already scheduled for next year. In my recent email newsletter containing lots of rabbits I wrote of how important I feel it is to know what…

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    art exhibit, book, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, drawing, Figures Of Speech, fine art, mundane, notebook, reading, Sarah Bakewell, sketchbook, writing
  • Flowers and it’s got to be fun travels

    Flowers and it’s got to be fun travels

    October 16, 2023

    We drove a bit over an hour to Hood River Oregon to see the sights. Our first stop was the bakery and fruit stand at Packer Orchards. We got coffee and apple hand pies also called empanadas. We also got a homemade jar of dill pickles among other food stuffs. We sipped our coffee and…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, nature, sketchbook, surrealism, travel art and writing, travelog, travelogue
    art tourism, coffee, Edgefield McMenamins, flowers, historical surrealism, history, history book, Hood River, Mcmenamins, oregon, Packer Orchards, pie, surrealism, The Gorge White House, travel, traveling, travelogue, Troutdale
  • Blog break, exhibit was great, I’m tired

    October 9, 2023

    I’m taking a blog break this week. My Figures Of Speech exhibit went very well!!! I’m happy and I’m also tired. Here’s the full details about the exhibit opening: https://sueclancy.substack.com/p/how-the-exhibit-went Drawing I did in my sketchbook afterwards… I hope your week is pleasant. I’ll do my usual email newsletter this week and will see you…

    A Creative Life, animals in art, art exhibit, art gallery, Figures Of Speech, fine art, humor in art, mental health, words and pictures
    art exhibit, blog break, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, email newsletter, Figures Of Speech
  • Figures Of Speech art and books

    Figures Of Speech art and books

    September 30, 2023

    October begins my one-person art exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery! The opening reception is Oct the 5th from 6 to 9pm. In my recent email newsletters – here and here – I’ve been sharing some of the individual artworks in my exhibit Figures Of Speech. Tuesday’s email newsletter will have a 20 page…

    A Creative Life, art exhibit, art gallery, artist book, books, ebook, fine art, humor in art, whimsical art
    art exhibit, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, Figures Of Speech, fine art, whimsical art
  • Cliches, travels and a cat

    Cliches, travels and a cat

    September 25, 2023

    I’m fascinated by language and have been for as long as I can remember. As a deaf child I would marvel when people who had very good hearing didn’t listen. I got curious when people used cliches and other slogans or phrases while seemingly unaware of what they meant. Hearing and using language were things…

    A Creative Life, animals in art, art exhibit, art gallery, artistic inspirations, creative thinking, Emotional health, Figures Of Speech, fine art, life of the mind, mental health, travel art and writing, visual thinking, whimsical art
    3d box, 3d sculpture, art exhibit, art inspiration, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, cat, cliches, creative thinking, deaf child, deafness, Figures Of Speech, fine art, language, train travel, travel
  • Figures of Speech delivery

    Figures of Speech delivery

    September 18, 2023

    This week I packed and delivered 25 of my artworks to the Caplan Art Designs Gallery for my upcoming Figures Of Speech exhibit which opens Oct 5 and will run until November. After my one-person exhibit finishes my art will become part of the ongoing Gallery group exhibits. Here’s what my studio looked like prior…

    A Creative Life, animals in art, art exhibit, art gallery, artistic inspirations, books, Figures Of Speech, fine art
    art exhibit, art gallery, art gallery exhibit, books, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, Figures Of Speech, fine art, used bookstore
  • Colors, trees, art and books

    Colors, trees, art and books

    September 11, 2023

    I’m in the home stretch for my upcoming art exhibit at Caplan Art Designs which opens October 5th! There are 22 paintings, 2 sculptures by me that are ready now. Number 25 is in progress more on that in a sec… Besides creating the artwork itself I photographed each piece for the Gallery’s promotional uses.…

    A Creative Life, art exhibit, art gallery, art supplies, art techniques, artistic inspirations, books, creative thinking, fine art, mundane and magical moments, reading, Sustainable creativity, visual thinking
    art exhibit, art supplies, books, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, colors, colors in nature, Figures Of Speech, fine art, library, paintings, photography, reading, sculptures, trees
  • Movies and noticing stuff

    Movies and noticing stuff

    September 4, 2023

    My wife and I went to see the movie Barbie at the Mcmenamins St. John’s Theater and Pub – a friend suggested seeing Barbie at this particular theater because it might be easier for me to hear. She was right! And this theater has a closed captioning device that sit in the cup holder and…

    A Creative Life, artistic inspirations, books, creative thinking, food for thought, life of the mind, mundane and magical moments, sketchbook, small things, Sustainable creativity, visual thinking, words and pictures
    a creative life, assistive devices, awareness, Barbie movie, being creative, books, closed captioning, creativity, deaf, Kurt Vonnegut, Mcmenamins, notebook, noticing things, observations, reading, Rob Walker, sketchbook, St Johns Theater and Pub
  • Outside of the box 4th edition

    Outside of the box 4th edition

    August 28, 2023

    I continued work this week on my 3d box sculpture for upcoming exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery that I’d mentioned in my last post and finished it. Specifically, as I worked towards final touches, I looked at more cardboard and learned about the various symbols printed on boxes and what they mean. Of…

    A Creative Life, art exhibit, art gallery, art techniques, artistic inspirations, Emotional health, fine art, interview, life of the mind, mental health, sculpture 3d, visual thinking
    3d box, 3d sculpture, a creative life, a creative process, artist/author interview, blog interview, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, fine art, life of the mind, mental health
  • Outside of the box 3rd edition

    Outside of the box 3rd edition

    August 21, 2023

    I continued working on my 3d box sculpture in progress in my last post. My sculpture will be in an exhibit at Caplan Art Designs in October this year. I worked on filling in the lettering of the elephants “mural” and more on the elephant herself. Since as I work on this sculpture I’m thinking…

    A Creative Life, art gallery, art techniques, artist book, artistic inspirations, author illustrator, books, creative thinking, fabric design, fine art, life of the mind, mental health, reading, sketchbook, words and pictures
    3d box, Another Sketchbook, books, Caplan Art Designs Gallery, coffee, creative thinking, fabric design, fine art, reading, Sculpture, sketchbook, thinking
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