visual thinking
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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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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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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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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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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, 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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Of civility, books, odd art and rice
I got my 2nd dose of the covid vaccine this week and I’m very glad! It did slow me down some so I did more than my usual reading, sketching and thinking. I avidly follow and read the letters written by historian Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. Often I use her letters on current events and…
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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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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 likes extra drawings
When I was a kid I wanted drawings on every page of a picture book. For “This Rabbit”, my newest artist book for kids, I’m doing extra drawings, with simple lines like this drawing below, for the book info pages. And here is the drawing placed in the software so it will print on the…
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