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feature article in The Columbian about my art

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Here’s a link to an article written by Scott Hewitt for The Columbian about my art exhibit “Dear Readers” that is currently at Burnt Bridge Cellars! And a picture of the front page of the newspaper with a bit of my artwork on it and pictures of the other 2 pages.  I was relieved to see that my artwork reproduced so well in print. Even though by now I know very well how to create images for reproduction I still breathe a sigh of relief when I see them looking good in glorious color print. Anyway, here’s the newspaper link all spelled out: https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/jul/18/vancouver-artists-ties-together-dogs-books-in-whimsical-ways/

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Both gouache paints and acrylic paints reproduce well (even in newsprint!) but to my eye the gouache reproduces best of all. But then gouache was originally created for use in illuminating manuscripts back in the days, around the 16th century, when all “books” were hand written, hand illustrated and hand bound – one at a time.

Acrylic, a medium that originated in the late 1940’s, tends to be shinier and more difficult to photograph and thus get a good reproduction quality image.

Have I mentioned lately that I really like gouache??

animals in art

A Creative Life, animals in art, Authors, fine art, food for thought, visual story, words and pictures

I have a gazillion-trillion reasons why I depict animals in my artwork and why I do it the way I do it. These two articles; one titled “Thinking With Animals” and the other titled “Why look at Animals?” lists a few of the issues often within my thoughts. In short within my artwork I contemplate the ways humans think in animal metaphors and our efforts at self-transcendence – and how to go on and living well with all the beings on our planet.

Why I do visual stories is another topic yet one that is intimately intertwined with why I depict animals in art and here is a wonderful article on storytelling titled “Susan Sontag on Storytelling, what it means to be a moral human being and her advice to writers”.

Possibly best of all, and what got me started writing this blog post, is this article titled “Neil Gaiman on how stories last”  – In that article at one point Gaiman says “Pictures, I think, may have been a way of transmitting stories.”

Because the Internet likes images I’m including one of my artworks that has – gasp! – animals in it.

Soup Moon by Sue Clancy (this piece is currently at www.caplanartdesigns.com)

Soup Moon by Sue Clancy (this piece is currently at www.caplanartdesigns.com)

Here are the full article links:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/16/thinking-with-animals-lorainne-daston-gregg-mitman/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/01/why-look-at-animals-john-berger-about-looking/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/30/susan-sontag-writing-storytelling-at-the-same-time/

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last/?utm_content=buffer76d87&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer