end of the year

I only have a couple of days with my current students before I turn them over to whatever summer means to them. For some it is holidays in nice places, for some it means endless hours at computer games, and for others it means untold abuse and/or no hot meals until their nasty but free [...]

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Etsy, here I come!

Tonight I started working on my Etsy store. I have a website and paypal and all that, but I think it is a good idea to have this as well. Also, I think it might be a good place to offer all the little things I make on a whim that I really don’t [...]

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pattern tester, Print & Pattern

I just discovered an amazing site, the Pattern Tester! I think it will be a great tool for me. I make woodcut prints, so when I am finished editioning them, I hate to throw them away, and I looovveee textiles, so often wonder how I could pass them along to a real textile printer. [...]

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Back to Painting

I took some time off from painting while my show in Tulsa was up, and then did some drawing for a few days, but am now back to the paint. There were several paintings that didn’t make my cut for the show due to a lack of space and, well, some of them were either [...]

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End of the Show

We’re taking down my TAC show tonight. It was fun and successful, and I love the idea of six of my paintings going on to have lives of their own. I hope the people who bought them enjoy them for many years to come. The painting to the right is one of my favorites, [...]

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drawing

Yesterday some new art supplies came in the mail, there is nothing like that, fresh unused drawing stuff. This is part of my plan to upgrade the materials I use for my continual drawings, rather than have heaps and stacks of receipts and classroom roll sheets with sharpie drawings on the back. So, the first [...]

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ArtBiz

We are winding up an excellent online “promote your art” class with Alyson Stanfield. It was very helpful and I’m looking forward to using the things we learned.
Also, I might be having one of my paintings published on the front of a phone book. It isn’t for sure yet, and it isn’t the work that [...]

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