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Guest Art Teacher Feature: Mrs. Perry
I’ve recently made a childrens book about looking at art. I think of my book as a resource book about observational skills for use by teachers and parents. Which means as I created my On Looking At Odditorium book I also spent a lot of time thinking of the teachers, professors and other helpful adults…
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Odditorium exhibit, lots of books and a sandwich technique
Last week I took 3 boxes containing all of my Odditorium fineart into Burnt Bridge Cellars where it will be through the end of July. Everything I’ve done over the last year is now in the capable hands of the winery and the Caplan Art Designs art gallery! My spouse took this photo as I…
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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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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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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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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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This Rabbit some lunch and books
This week was filled with photographing my illustrations for a new children’s book tentatively titled “This Rabbit” (as I wrote last week). Then I uploaded the photos checking the digital images against the original artwork for accuracy of color. Sometimes I had to retake a photo. Once all of the illustrations were digitally correct, more…
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Leaf fabric, greeting cards, books and rabbits
In a prior post I showed a fabric design in progress. This week I got a fabric swatch proof, pictured below, which I approved and have made publicly available now. I like the bright colors of it. In the most recent children’s book I illustrated, Pembral Forgets, I used a leaf motif thought the book. …
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A box for Pembral Forgets
A horrible but predictable insurrection happened in the US last week. My book shaped box to hold the original artwork for Pembral Forgets was at the needs-to-dry stage the day before, so Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the day of the attempted coup, I nervously read a lot of news. And thought of how a seditious…
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