animals in art
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The professional dog and what’s in the cards
I’m starting a new childrens poem project “The Professional Dog”. It’s an excuse to do a series of portraits of dogs owned by friends who have professions that fit neatly in an alphabetic format… accountant, botanist, chef…. (Yes, another abecedarian book!!) Several friends – with dogs – have different professions that could fit for the…
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Crocodile to dragon transition
My crocodile became a dragon as I’ve been working on a new childrens book. I’ve been alternating work in both my poetry sketchbook, the orange book on the left, and my black visual sketchbook on the right. Below is a look at my handwritten poem text in my poetry sketchbook. I also have a 3…
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Of beermats, bears, books, poems, crocodiles and garden garlic scapes
“Warning” by Jenny Joseph is one of my favorite poems. I particularly like these lines “…and hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes…”. But I hadn’t read that poem or thought of it in a while (you can see the entire poem here). Earlier this month I received the prospectus for a…
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An odditorium of books, walks, green dragons and cookies
Literature and art are forms of self care and of care work. I’ve thought of this as I have worked in my household surrealism projects. Home is where most of us practice self care and care for others. We all need regular care and comfort, including the care and comforts to be found all of…
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Flamingos enjoying life in the Odditorium
Frankly, I’m tired. But it’s the I’ve-played-hard good kind of tired. So more pictures and less text in this post and you get a special peek … I’ve been thinking about Kurt Vonnegut’s book If this isn’t nice what is? Here’s an article I enjoyed about this Vonnegut book. Here’s a photo of the book…
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Crows, cookies and thinking in the Odditorium
One of the gifts of travel is the awareness that things don’t have to be what you’re used to in order to be enjoyable. Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 I’ve been looking at household things with the eye of a traveler. I’m practicing being okay with things as they are, seeing them…
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Crows, writing, art and the odd sandwich
This week in the Odditorium aka household surrealism I thought of how often I use the same pens to write and draw with. It’s not surprising really as elsewhere in this blog I have written about the similarities I see between art making and writing. Here’s a link about that… https://sueclancy.wordpress.com/similarities-of-art-and-writing/ These thoughts swirled in…
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Well well odds are it’s a gift
While working on my new household surrealism art series I’ve been thinking of my art as souvenirs of special moments. For example: a friends daughter and grandkids left a cup of daffodils for us on our porch. I photographed and sketched the flowers. Here’s one of my sketchbook pages that seemed most promising for a…
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This Rabbit likes good eggs
This Rabbit, my newest children’s book, is now a free ebook and audiobook on Storyberries.com! How fun is that? Click here to both see the book and/or listen to it read aloud! Basically This Rabbit is now officially available worldwide! Wahoo! The Aurora Gallery also now has my signed books – This Rabbit being one…
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This rabbit likes books and breakfast
My newest artist book for children “This Rabbit” is rolling out! It’s a whimsical look at self-awareness with lots of different rabbits liking a variety of things. As I mentioned in my last post “This Rabbit” shares a cover design similarity with some of my other artist books that also have a bunch of different…
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