artist at play
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Nicholas Wilton Free Workshop, post #3
The third pre-workshop countdown prompt: #3 Share a story of when your intuition was right; a time when you trusted yourself. I had to pause for a bit to dial in to this prompt. Then several stories bubbled up, one of which I share today. In the late 1990s I experienced a prolonged stretch—maybe a… Continue reading
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Nicholas Wilton Free Workshop, post #1
My inaugural series of CutUps came to a natural end just as a free workshop offered by Nicholas Wilton started up. I’m hoping to use my blog in one fashion or another so as to avail myself of what the workshop has to offer in more depth than I might otherwise. Starting point for the… Continue reading
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Pack Rat
I confess I’m a little bit of a pack rat. No sooner do I write those words than I head to a dictionary for the actual definition of a pack rat and the difference between a pack rat and a hoarder. pack rat: a person who collects or keeps things that are not needed. Well,… Continue reading
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I Ask You
In 2014, I shared the website of artist Ann Marquis with my friend Sylvia who said, Ask her if she’d do a workshop with us and then, before I could even blink, asked Ann herself. Long story short, Ann boarded a plane in NM, I boarded one in MA, and we joined Sylvia at her… Continue reading
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Green Thumb
We have extensive magnificent lush flower gardens, with select veggies intermixed, gracing our property in all directions during growing season every year … which are 99.9% in the wonderfully capable care of my husband Dave’s green thumb. I do occasional weeding. Indoors, the drill is as follows. I tend most of our houseplants. I give… Continue reading
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Noticing
A short enumeration of factors that caught my notice and led to the creation this CutUp: • an idea garnered from something I saw on my Instagram feed some weeks ago, plus • a piece of watercolor paper from a large pad given to me by friends who purchased their retirement home from an artist… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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