A Creative Life
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The ABC’s and Holiday Book Flood month
I’ve been working towards “holidays” since about July, making my ABC’s: Artwork Books and Cards for holiday exhibits at the galleries. Such is the life of an artist. And it’s not just me it’s many artists who do this work-in-summer-for-the-holiday-season type of schedule. Creativity is very like running a marathon. So come December sometimes I…
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Portraits of trees published books and Pat
More work this week on commissioned artwork for holiday gifts – so let’s look at the trees. Vintage Books is pairing my fine art portraits of trees with some of their books about trees! Additionally Dec 9 they’ve asked me to do a live-drawing event from 1 to 3 in the afternoon. Yes, I created…
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Hope, human spirits, booties and books
This week I primarily worked on fine art commissions that are holiday gifts so no talking about that. Now about booties and books: My wife and I had been discussing our need for new house slippers … but what kind? Where to get them? So with our questions in the air it so happened that…
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Verbal questions answered with visual art: a new interview style
This week I primarily worked on fine art commissions that are holiday gifts so nothing here about that. Here’s a new interview style thought up by Kathryn Vercillo and I was her test-subject! Kathryn Vercillo amazed and impressed me again by creating a “visual interview” whereby she asked me questions using words and I answered…
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Books for the trees and such
The trees are so beautiful in the Fall. It’s like they’re dressed for a ball. In leaves of oranges and yellows, all of the fellows stand so gloriously so proud and so tall. I wrote the above in my poetry notebook while working on another of my tree portraits… In addition to finishing up my…
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The holiday times, trees and tomes
The time of year has begun that my studio resembles Santa’s workshop. So there will be times when I write more cryptically here than I normally write. I’ll be leaving out whole swaths of what I’m very busily working on because … gifts. Imagine one of Santa’s elves on a business trip, South of the…
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Time to enjoy the mundane
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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Flowers and it’s got to be fun travels
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…
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Figures Of Speech art and books
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…
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