Tag: Art
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Good Enough
Years ago, when scrapbooking was my creative outlet, once or twice a year I would spend the weekend with a small group of friends in a craft store north of Pittsburgh. One of those women was an unrelenting perfectionist. If she could not find the perfect shade of seafoam green paper or decide which photos…
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Where The Magic Happens
I love gazing at photos of artist’s studios, studying the little details of how they store their materials, how they organize their space to maximize their creative flow, and how they express themselves within their space. Yet I rarely open my own studio for others to see the same. Despite the many visitors we’ve had…
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Words To Live By
As the dust settled on my gallery show in October last year, my daughter-in-law asked if I would make a painting for her classroom. She recently graduated with her master’s degree in early childhood education and had just begun her first full time teaching position. She was hoping I could create a visual representation of…
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Blue Skying!
I admit, it’s an unusual title for a blog post written in February in Pennsylvania where most days the landscape and, occasionally, my outlook resemble 50 shades of gray. My college roommate’s father, Mr. Murphy, dubbed this time of year “the Febs,” a perfect description for the daylight-deprived doldrums of a Northeast bleak mid-winter. Perhaps…
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See ….. there really is no Someday
As I’ve written in a previous post, I am a storyteller. Unfortunately, sometimes the stories I tell myself like, “you’re not really an artist” and “you’re not very good” and “no one is going to like that,” are not very kind. The chorus of voices in my head can be downright nasty, repeatedly chiding me,…
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Storytelling Through Art
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about myself, it’s that I love to tell stories, my stories. I use writing as a vehicle to understand and appreciate my life. I’ve been a journaler for as long as I can remember and, in the last 20 or so years, I’ve relied on a daily gratitude journal…
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