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Portraits of trees published books and Pat
More work this week on commissioned artwork for holiday gifts – so let’s look at the trees. Vintage Books is pairing my fine art portraits of trees with some of their books about trees! Additionally Dec 9 they’ve asked me to do a live-drawing event from 1 to 3 in the afternoon. Yes, I created…
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Books, games, art supplies and more dogs
I’m borrowing a concept: I create an original one-of-a-kind artist book and then make limited edition reproductions of that book. Just like a fine art painter might make art prints from a painting. Only my art reproductions are books! Anyway my artist books, both the original handmade books and the limited edition reproductions of the originals…
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Patchwork Poems and a something
It’s been a tough week. One friend died. Another is on hospice. I’ve also completed two commissions for holiday gifts and delivered them. So my bandwidth for writing this blog barely registers on the scales. Please forgive me. I’m still playing in my sketchbooks I just find it is easier (and soothing) to actually *be*…
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A hearing book and the cookbook is out!
Recently a friend asked if I had made a book about my hearing experiences. Yes! In 2003 I made a one-of-a-kind book titled “Book Of Days And Ears”. It measures 3 inches tall 6 inches wide and is one inch thick. When fully opened it is a smidge more than 12 inches wide. The leather…
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Perceptions, a poem, art projects and hearing
My Gallery owner Amy at Caplan Art Designs had the idea to pair photos of the pets that inspired my Odditerrarium series portraits alongside my paintings! I swear I am so grateful to have her expertise! Two heads really are better than one sometimes. The gallery has started doing posts like this. Isn’t this nice?!…
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Odditerrarium opens this week and other projects
My Odditerrarium fine art exhibit opens this Thursday Oct 6 from 6 to 8 pm at Caplan Art Designs! It’s been fun to think so much about what dogs and cats might think about! I hope others are amused too. I’ve enjoyed titling paintings in ways that refer to aspects of mental life. Sometimes, like…
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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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Patch La Belle part 5
My book Patch La Belle has been officially released on Storyberries! You can see it for free here: https://www.storyberries.com/poems-for-kids-patch-la-belle-childrens-poetry/ The printed book version is slightly different (more on that in a sec) and it’s available here: https://www.blurb.com/b/10351859-patch-la-belle Here’s a look at the digital files for the front and back covers: Photography of the pages was…
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Patch La Belle part 4
(There’s a surprise inside this blog suitable for all ages) This week has been a flurry of finishing pages, and the cover art for Patch La Belle. I’ve also been doing the graphic design hocus pocus for both the printed books version and an ebook version for Storyberries.com As per my last post I’m still…
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Patch La Belle part 3
As I worked this week on a new children’s book (see my last post) titled Patch La Belle I’ve thought more about the importance of enjoying and trying things regularly. Too often we expect our enjoyments to be big life changing experiences when in reality a good life is a cumulative of many small pleasant…
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