magic realism
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The Professional Dog and Jolabokaflod
Here are this weeks featured Professional Dogs … waiting excitedly for Jolabokaflod! Or… … maybe not. 🤣 Anyway, below are closer views of each dog portrait and below each is the text line in the book. As mentioned in a prior post the Aurora Gallery quickly sold out of my book The Professional Dog and…
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An Odditorium of stories, poems and mugs of soup
Early this week I’m delivering all of the Odditorium fine art and books to Burnt Bridge Cellars! This weekend I made sure the art is ready to go and signed some of the artist books. These artist books are stories within the Odditorium series fine art visual stories. First there’s the Odditorium exhibit catalog which…
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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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The minutest concerns: poems, love, books and odd balls
This week in household surrealism I’ve been thinking of love. Love in the sense of the poetry, the food, the care for and cleaning of things, generally creating a gentle environment for ourselves and others. Perhaps an environment also filled with souvenirs of loving moments as I wrote in my last post. My recent children’s…
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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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Of odd hats flowers and books
I’m practicing household surrealism as I work towards fine art exhibits later this year. Ordinary objects and plants are sources of inspiration. Here’s a few sketchbook pages in which I’m playfully combining hats and plants. Below are some primrose flowers a friend gave us. They sat on my table and I drew them and photographed…
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Alphapets: I J K and L
The Alphapets portrait project this week is brought to you by the letters I, J, K and L. Here’s my abecedarian poem to go with these letters and artwork : Ivan refrains from eating the shoe Joe remembers the things that he knew Kameron eats eggs from the carton Liam looks nice in his tartan…
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Clancy’s view of Tralfamadore
In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the (ahem) text, for my recent painting (last post) Vonnegut talks of Tralfamadore another planet where time is viewed panoramically by the Tralfamadorians. After posting about my painting “Slaughterhouse Chives” some friends said they’d like to see my view of Tralfamadore. So here, below, are several views of my…
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Slaughterhouse Chives or what came from my sketchbooks
My last post featured my sketchbook pages and those sketches added to my reading in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut were combined in my mind becoming this fine art piece I’ve titled “Slaughterhouse Chives” If you saw my last post you may recognize the man’s gesture from my “loosey” sketchbook studies. I combined the man’s…
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