Art Word Combinations
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Studio nonsense
Since Jan 2025 I’ve become increasingly alarmed by the US Republican regimes manipulations of words and their meanings. Specifically their tactics of outright lies, lies by ommission, goal-post moving, gaslighting, DARVO, hypocrisy, book bans, censorship, the firing of people, random closures of government departments, the cessation of record keeping, the removal of photos/documents from historical…
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As the crow flies
I made an artist book “As The Crow Flies” for my exhibit at the Caplan Art Designs Gallery– opening Oct 3 – my book was inspired when I realized that with 8 independent bookstores and 12 public library branches in the town where I live that wherever I go in town I’m within about 2…
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Eggheads going on and on
I’ve taken a rather inadvertent blogging break. My still-in-physical-therapy ankle is an ongoing life factor. Other things have been happening too with the results being that I’ve not had much time for blogging. But all the while I’ve been not-blogging I’ve been working a little along towards my upcoming one person exhibit at Caplan Art…
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Figures Of Speech 2.0 Exhibit prep
I’ve been busy framing and packing up my artwork for delivery to my upcoming exhibit at the winery Burnt Bridge Cellars via the Caplan Art Designs Gallery. My exhibit is titled Figures Of Speech 2.0 and it opens at the winery June 7th – that’s this coming Friday! – and will continue through the end…
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Colorful language
In my last post I mentioned that I was working on a smaller piece… Since Spring has begun I’ve heard more birds chattering whenever I’m outside. I’ve also been reading about birds and language use. Birds like parakeets or parrots can mimic human speechmaking fairly accurately. That thought led to thoughts about how humans mimic…
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Half assed
In my last post I told about finally being able to work in short bursts at my studio easel on a larger painting inspired by a conversation with our Fairy Goddaughter. She had talked about the distinction between things done “half assed” and things that were done acceptably as “good enough” meaning that while one…
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Not my cup of tea
I was thinking of high tea as I worked on my last painting “Eager Beaver” so as I began a new artwork I continued thinking of tea related thoughts and phrases. At the time I was beginning the new painting some dear friends shared that they were taking a road trip to see the plants…
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New year new books new lights new art same Sue
When I last wrote Jolabokaflod was coming… here’s the stack of new books I happily focused on during the evenings of Dec 24 and 25. More about this in my upcoming newsletter on Friday. Not related to Jolabokaflod I ordered and received a Brewer’s Dictionary! No, it’s not beer related! 🤣 It contains over 1000…
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How my art event went
In a nutshell my live-drawing event at Vintage Books went very well! If you’re interested in the details and photos they’re on my email newsletter here: https://sueclancy.substack.com/p/rolling-in-it-and-with-ithttps://sueclancy.substack.com/p/rolling-in-it-and-with-it I’m tired and will rest and read now. See you next Monday. Probably.

