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What if everything we make– Art– is because someone else, thousands of someones, placed their order?? What if nothing is made in a void,...
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Oct 23, 20192 min read
Art is: Making Images; Faith & Belief; Narnia & Heaven & Europe
“…it was really that they could not make their own images.” 🤯💛 This is so wonderfully clear– I love teaching...
Sep 25, 20191 min read
Images are Symbols
How to draw my cat, Per. I just realized that for me, drawings are symbols / touchstones / hieroglyphs– they don’t tell all of the story,...
Sep 24, 20191 min read
How to Give Creative Feedback
A friend just joined a writing group an mentioned that feedback can feel so personal. Here’s what I told her: Writing groups can be so...
Sep 18, 20191 min read
Learning (or Unlearning) to Draw
I’m so excited to have finally, finally (but surely not for the last time) convinced myself that simpler is better. That I do not need to...
Apr 19, 20181 min read
I Do Not Want Pearls
Here’s a cut-up poem made with “The Princess & the Frog.” #Art #Poetry
Oct 25, 20171 min read
Oct 25, 20171 min read
Medicine Friends
My grandparents’ house was sold at the end of the summer. This was a Century Farm, meaning it had been in the family for over 100 years;...
Jun 13, 20171 min read
Bed of Roses
More playing around on my phone, drawing on pictures. I checked out the library’s iPad… but immediately felt like I would have to DO REAL...
Jun 13, 20172 min read
Digital Drawing: Coraline’s House
A group of picture book illustrators stayed at the B&B over Memorial weekend. I had met one of them at a SCBWI conference in Chicago last...
May 1, 20171 min read
Wooden Giants
Have a look at all of them. p.s. I suggested, half-jokingly, that we should put some of these up on Artist’s Point in Grand Marais....
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