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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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cozy mystery story stuff

August 25, 2018

In September at Caplan Art Designs www.caplanartdesigns.com I’m doing a one-person fine art exhibit titled “Story Stuff”. And you can thank the literary genre of the “cozy mystery” for it. You see I enjoy detective novels and movies. I particularly enjoy cozy mystery novels because I like the inherent premise in them that a regular…

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coffee and conversations with friends

July 20, 2018

I’ve been thinking of how essential friendly conversations are – and remembering a story Dr. Bob Hoke* once told. It went like this. Once upon a time there was a king who was very busy from morning until evening chairing meetings and making decisions. When the king went home in the evening he wanted perfect…

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the art of practice and a story inside

March 8, 2017

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first” – Dr. Bob Hoke. That quote is one of many from my book Dr. Bob’s Emotional Repair Program First Aid Kit that I’ve found helpful in my life as a professional artist. [a link to that book is here: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/dr-bobs-emotional-repair-program-first-aid-kit] When I begin any commissioned portrait…

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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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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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