visual story
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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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Sue sketches Ursula
Disclaimer: the “quotes” written around the drawings are what I think heard Ursula Le Guin say during her talk at Powell’s books – any and all errors, miss-scribbles and darn-doodles are mine and mine alone. Any and all brilliance, insight and encouragement is Ursula Le Guin’s. Her website is http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ and she does stuff here:…
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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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Sue Clancy illustrates poems again
In the current Section 8 magazine issue several of my artworks illustrate several poems! Yep, once again I realize that words and pictures go together like hot water and ground coffee beans. Link here: http://www.section8magazine.com/rip-the-strings-let-fly-the-feet/ Oh, and at the bottom of that page there’s a link to a fun interview this magazine did with me…
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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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from the books of Bob
“Lighting someone else’s candle won’t make yours any less bright” – Dr. Bob Hoke Being artistically inspired is not a once-and-done thing: I always need fresh inspirations, a new sense of awe, a new way of looking at something. It’s like buying groceries and cooking; the fridge and pantry always need restocking, new recipe ideas…
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