Category: Blog
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Golden Pet Portrait
I’d like you to meet “Shugah.” She posed for photos this weekend and will be the subject for my next painting. The deadline to be finished is Friday July 12th. I’ll start with some pen and charcoal sketches and then get vertical on the easel. Focus today for: Mix Mix Mix, paint Paint Paint. And…
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Following me through CA…
For brief-daily-posts about my “creative” CA experience, please follow me at Twitter and/or Instagram. My Instagram account shows photos and captions and is linked to Twitter. If you have not tried to use Twitter before now, let me help with that. Just Google search for Twitter and look for the search icon on the Twitter…
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How to feed your soul…
www.hellasarts.com Spend a day with another artist who values the same inspirations. Learn these things: 1. For some, art is an evolution within and influenced by the pull around them. 2. Slow down. If you spend a day in the shade of Redwoods, whose roots got started around 900 A.D., one will realize that time…
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Sketches for CA
Here are three sketches that were made during my stay in Northern CA. The Orchid was drawn while looking at the plant while Peet’s coffee brewed, about a 20 minute sketch time. The sketch of Catherine playing her Ukelele took about 30 minutes. She was practicing chords while sitting on the couch. We were all…
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Curb Appeal
The beautiful thing about living in St. Augustine is the great opportunity for creative inspiration. Between the boutiques which offer casual Parisian Chic to the hand-sewn-funk of local artisans, art can be found in fabrics and design as well as 2D, 3D, or Bas Relief. One can stop and get a groovy coffee, or just…
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Reaching for a Star
There comes a time in each of us when we embrace an overwhelmingly positive moment and feel inspired by someone else…inspired to write and draw a thank you note. A gesture of good intention. Sometimes a creative effort gets noticed or it gets lost in a mass of similar gestures. Where am I going…
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Aviles Street celebrates artists for the Romanza Festivale!
As part of the Romanza Festivale, several artists participated in a “paint out” on Aviles Street. This was coordinated by the Georgia Nick Gallery on Aviles Street. It was a success as about half a dozen of our Anonymous Society of Artists participants found the courage to do this collectively. I was delighted to set-up…
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Our second Anniversary
It’s been two years now since this blog has been up and running. I have much to be thankful for. Today is Nurse’s Day. And here’s a poem one of my kiddos wrote for me after I made her a finger puppet. Whoever says that a cordial Thank you via email is better than a…
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Believe in Someone and they believe in You
If you have never seen the tribute to Jim Henson and “Just one Person” then I suggest a visit to Google or YouTube. The reason is another fine example of art in life and how that effects people. Jim Henson designed many of the Muppet characters and was Kermit’s better half. Why do I mention…
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Some might say that art does not have a place in the ordinary, daily grind of life. They also might say that art is an idle waste of time and doodles don’t count. I say it all counts. It is expansive thinking, a bit of unwinding and preliminary problem solving. Here is an article that…