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Clay of the day, er..last week, no, two weeks ago
My chickens haven’t come home to roost yet, but they did make it through a bisque firing. Phew! Last time I did a series of fairly quick birds, almost all of them exploded. Blurg. I have already...
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back to the gardens July 5th
Laura and I made another plein air day happen. We headed for Duke Gardens again so that we could check out the native plants for an upcoming exhib in the spring. Then we settled in with a Japanese...
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My mom’s water quilt complete!
another quilt made of my watercolors started a year ago planning which water images to use to December 2014–she finished the water quilt (among others in progress, actually). The recipients are quite...
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the sketchbook exchange–since 2011
I may have written here about the sketchbook exchange before, probably a couple years ago. The game is: you buy a sketchbook, you draw, paint, doodle, write, glue, etc., on a page, then you send it to...
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Clay of the Day–tile mural project at Larry’s school
My clay teacher (at the Durham Arts Council, hand-building classes) and friend for lo these many years, Larry Downing, teaches full time at the NC School of the Arts in Durham. A couple of his classes...
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Open Studios begin…..finally!
I didn’t open in the spring this year (mama Drama). I didn’t open in October as planned (recovering from travels and multiple family health dramas); I asked the mailing service to hold the October...
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Discoveries while cleaning for the Studio Tour
I always think I’m all set up for the Studio Tour , and then I go to “just” sort out that loose stack of watercolors or make an adjustment to a stack of paintings and boom! chaos returns. Order is a...
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50 5″ x 7″‘s—a show in May at NC Crafts Gallery in Carrboro
My deceased animal-painting-artist friend Alex O’Connor gave me a tub of small canvases before she left. She said she’d be glad knowing they would be filled with beautiful animal paintings one day. So...
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Vultures and daffodils
What a thing I saw driving down the road this week! Spring popping everywhere, daffodils brightly yellow here and there. In the midst of one patch of daffodils were black vultures, doing their...
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