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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,...

“…it was really that they could not make their own images.” 🤯💛 This is so wonderfully clear– I love teaching...

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,...

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...

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...

Here’s a cut-up poem made with “The Princess & the Frog.” #Art #Poetry

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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;...

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...

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...

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....