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real life story recipes

December 23, 2018

I’ve been experimenting with the flash essay format. Creating recipe illustrations, for example, and writing a short-short story/essay to go with it. Here’s a recent one as relates to this Holiday season: Hot Cocoa Espressoism by Sue Clancy – My wife and I went for a long hike in the woods on a below 40…

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Molly

November 28, 2016

I’ve been busy working on art commissions – and some extra special “dog-drawing-for-Christmas” requests – none of which I can talk about in public ’cause, you know, they’re somebody’s present! So I took a very short time off from being one of Santa’s elves and did this short-narrative poem plus illustration practice: Molly – By Sue…

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Ponder

November 20, 2016

Doing my short narrative – poem plus illustration – practice again. Perhaps I should call it “dog drawing plus words”? Ponder – By Sue Clancy – There once was a dog named Ponder Who was full of curiosity and wonder “What’s it like in the lea? or for people at sea? Oh what is it like…

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Danny Joe

November 11, 2016

Today’s short narrative practice… original poem and art/illustration to follow: Danny Joe – By Sue Clancy There was an old dog named Danny Joe who played a lively banjo and sang folk songs about rights and wrongs and all the things a body should know

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feeding the beast

November 8, 2016

A problem I’ve had as a professional artist who does fine art commissions – is that often the project is a secret. Which means even though my day (and mind) is filled with drawings, paper patterns and colors related to my commission I can’t talk about it online. No posting “in progress” photos because it’d spoil…

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card times

November 4, 2016

Here’s some more short narrative practice, or poetry practice, or words plus pictures practice or if you want to be really accurate you could call it “Sue’s playing around again”. Whatever you want to call it – here’s the poem and illustration: Card Times by Sue Clancy A sly old dog named Muffin Sat on a…

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Friday Fudge Judge

October 28, 2016

Earlier today I did a blog post called “Friday Fun In Progress” about a short narrative poem I was in the process of writing and illustrating. Then I took a lunch break. Thanks for waiting so patiently…. and without further ado here’s what I came up with: The Fudge Judge – By Sue Clancy A strict, stiff,…

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Friday fun in progress

October 28, 2016

I’m working on my short narrative practice again; aka writing a quickie poem/story plus creating an illustration for it. I’m thinking of fudge, fudge competitions, and the process of asking people to judge something so subjective as what something tastes like… and what could happen. Anyway, here’s what my desk looks like right now… more…

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self-portrait of the artist

October 17, 2016

Here’s a self-portrait I did this morning. (Aka: more short visual story/narrative practice.)

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the art of spitting seeds

October 15, 2016

I was looking in my files for some dog photos and found this graphic narrative I’d written and drawn some time ago. Since I’ve recently been practicing my “short narrative/ flash fiction/ nonsense” on this blog I thought you’d enjoy seeing this effort too!

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