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Put a tree on it?

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My Four Step Creative Process

  It’s simple, really. And it needs to be. The act of creating is daunting enough. Who needs a complicated process to get it done? My four step creative process: Input: I am constantly gathering...

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Sorta went in this direction instead. Not sure of composition, but the...

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Dancing Poppies. An excercise in color. (Split complementary-ISH

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…I put a tree on it

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Telling myself to put the brush down

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Willow: spent some time on the Altamaha this weekend

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This needs something more… Suggestions?

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Well now, I think I like it. Thanks for all the feedback! Y’all keep me going

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Listening to folk music and thinking about camping

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Summer of Discovery

Gathering shells to bring home inhales and exhales of our beloved ocean. Counting the collection of shark teeth. Learning to love fresh in-season veggies. Finding a pace by painting in small squares....

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I’ve been in serious flow for the past three hours. There’s paint everywhere,...

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Multitasking

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Digital sketching to see what’s next

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On yesses and no’s…

What I’ve really learned in my 43 years is that the body does not lie; the body actually tells you what’s right and wrong. If you get a sinking feeling in your stomach or a heavy heart about something,...

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Falling into routine, and rising within it.

The start of school is behind us. Fall is here and I am settling back into the rhythm and flow of full-time artistry. My creative days are dependent on their start, so I am diligent to give myself the...

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Anne Truitt on Process:

“It’s like not knowing where you’re going but knowing how to get there.” – from Daybook

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On Daybook

I can’t put this book down, a sort of artist’s memoir. Anne Truitt’s Daybook. These three quotes, who rolled together in just a few pages, have haunted me: I do not understand why I seem able to make...

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The Pace Book: a mini-book from me to you

The summer is behind us! We are returning to our regularly-scheduled routines. (And all the creative work-at-home parents say “Woooo!!”) ‘Tis the season for regaining control of our days and weeks. No...

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Every time I read about shapes in art, somebody says that squares &...

The post Every time I read about shapes in art, somebody says that squares & rectangles are boring. Well, I’m sorry but I think they feel stable and I just can’t stop painting them appeared first...

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