Odditorium
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How the Odditorium and Dragon are going
So far so good! 4 of the artworks in my Odditorium exhibit at Caplan Art Designs sold! 3 sold before the official opening! The exhibit is virtual but the gallery still had an “opening night” – as I wrote in my last post it wasn’t the same kind of party as pre-pandemic ones – this…
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Dragon, Odditorium, Time and Burritos
Unveiling an art exhibit during a pandemic full of unknowns has gotten me thinking about uncertainty in general. In the recent past of human history, at least as I read it, “uncertainty” about the weather, if a restaurant was open or not was more normal – in general things tended to be more uncertain, unplanned and…
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How To Draw A Dragon, fine art and postal whimsy
If you got a post titled “Dragon postal whimsy” I accidentally hit a button. Here’s the real post about “How To Draw A Dragon“! After a week spent creating cover art and scanning 36 pages there’s now a coloring book poem that exists in the world! This is the book description: “How do you draw…
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Dragon, an oops, a rhino and recipe postcards
Had an oops during ink work this week on my coloring book poem “How to Draw A Dragon” here’s how I fixed it. Despite the mistake all of the hand written text as well as all of the illustrations have now been completely inked! Here’s how: first I drew the whole book in pencil which…
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Dragons, margaritas, a toad and a garden
Progress was made this week on my “How To Draw A Dragon” childrens book project. Here’s what my studio looks like when success happens. Yes, doesn’t that look a whole lot like what my studio looked like in my last post and the post before that? Being creative is like cooking – you get one…
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Dragon in the details
A work rhythm has been fairly firmly established. I wrote about that in my last post. My days now have a regularity that goes like this: Breakfast time contains sketchbook drawings with or without characters from my currently in progress childrens book “How To Draw A Dragon” Perhaps after eating breakfast I spend a few…
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On Looking at Odditorium
To my awareness there aren’t many books for children that talk about looking at an artist’s exhibit whether the fine art is in a book or on walls. I think looking at a book of fine art is similar to looking at a wordless picture book. Looking at one artist’s series of paintings on a…
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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 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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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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