animals in art
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the inspiration lab
A neighbor asked me to take care of her three Labradors while she was away. Each time, as I served up doggy dinner, one of the dogs “sang” in a sweet baritone – thus inspiring my artwork pictured above titled “Lyrical Lab”. This is one of the artworks that will be in an exhibit opening…
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Some enchanted buffalo
My submission for the SCBWI monthly drawing prompt word “Enchanted”.
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writing art exhibit statements or “blurbs”
As I’ve mentioned before in other posts there is a lot of writing that goes on in a professional fine artist’s career. Exhibit statements (or “blurbs” as I call them) are written for each gallery show an artist has. These blurbs are often less than 100 words. When I write such statements I try to:…
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Mocha Dalmatian
for upcoming exhibit at Caplan Art Designs
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write err wrong
Working on some new artwork for an upcoming fine art exhibit (www.caplanartdesigns.com) … and I’ve been thinking about how a successful creative life is due to trial and error, the willingness to make a mess and be “wrong”, a commitment to practice, to play and have fun. Here’s a recent artwork on the theme titled:…
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zucchini inspired art
Inspiration to make a zucchini dish lead to appreciation of the green skin of the zucchini which lead to making green paper and stenciling it. Eating the zucchini casserole lead to the desire to nap…. The art above is titled “Sawing Logs” and is currently at Caplan Art Designs.
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carrot cake inspired art
New artwork destined for exhibit in October at Caplan Art Designs. See the events page at www.caplanartdesigns.com or follow on Twitter @AmyCaplan1 or @artistclancy
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on commissions of peas
An art commission I did was delivered yesterday to it’s new happy home – along with a pdf file of how I created the artwork. The commission is titled “Preying for Peas”. The client had asked for more information about how I work – so I did a blow-by-blow pdf file for them with the…
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Dog Art
For an exhibit upcoming at a Caplan Art Designs event.”Cappuchino Corgi” by Sue Clancy http://www.sueclancy.com http://www.caplanartdesigns.com/
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food music
Here’s a piece I finished recently titled “Tune and Sandwich”. I’ve been thinking recently of how often music and food go together for me. “Tune and Sandwich” will probably be in an upcoming October wine-dinner-art exhibit called “Cooks and Corks” – more on that under the events tab at Caplan Art Designs.
