Tag: #illustration
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Continue Reading: Finished The Paul
I love this…. First of all, I love Paul. He is SUCH a goofball and the photo that I used as the source for this painting really captured his continuously goofy look. This dog started life on an obsolete dog track but has ended up with my son and daughter-in-law in Philadelphia with his own…
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Continue Reading: Confidence Building…
There was a reception for artists showing at the Jericho Town Hall a couple of Saturdays ago. I had no idea what to expect. Jericho is a charming Vermont town sporting a handful more than 5000 residents. The venue was a town hall. I don’t think of town halls as fantastic attractions for art aficionados…
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Continue Reading: Kinda Treading Water
Llama EyeAfter a year of working on Rescued and a frantic two weeks working on a couple of projects to submit to the Vermont Watercolor Society’s juried spring show (I wasn’t selected, if you were wondering. It was an odd little painting so I’m not terribly surprised.) suddenly I find myself free of deadlines. I…
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Continue Reading: Mission Accomplished
(…for the most part) I made the deadline, at least for one of the watercolors that I started. (The landscape is just going to have to wait a bit.) I find out on Saturday whether it gets accepted into the VWS show. This is the first painting of a series that I’ve been ruminating about…
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Continue Reading: Where the Sausage-Making Happens
Back in the days of working for a steady paycheck and health insurance, before I took the plunge into the full-time artist label, I would spend downtime checking out artist studios on Pinterest and losing a lot of drool. Finally, back in 2016, I decided to do something about it. That extra bedroom was going…
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Continue Reading: Informal Artist Retreat
My sister has a lovely home in southern Vermont and often, I will take care of her 3 dogs while she is off with her wife enjoying various adventures. I bring along Tsuki, my young German Shepherd. It’s like camp for her. She has three friends to play with…actually, two. The third is an ancient…