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A Small Mishap

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Yesterday I had a bad fall when I was walking my mother’s German Shepherd. The leash got tangled around my thumb and she started running after some sort of small vermin, leaving me flat on my face, with bruised ribs and sprained wrists. I spent all day in bed with wrist splints on, not doing […]

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Carolyn Pappas Was Here

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Now that I am feeling better I have been doing drawing mostly every day, except right now I am working on Christmas presents because I am so behind schedule. I was originally planning on getting all my Christmas artwork done before July, but things didn’t really go as planned. I don’t want to post these […]

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Metaxa

Friday, October 9, 2009

Ever since I was a kid I remember this bottle in the liquor cabinet. This must be at least 75 years old because it has been there ever since I’ve been around and the bottle says it’s already 50 years old! I don’t think it would be very good to drink. Metaxa is a type […]

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Why I Draw Flowers

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I always thought my relationship with floral art was a love/hate one. For a long time I was embarrassed of my fascination with flowers because various individuals used to criticize me for it, saying that I was too “girly.” At other times, I was given flowers by an abusive partner as a “goodwill” gesture, basically […]

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Personality

Saturday, July 18, 2009

This past week I made no art. Instead, I talked to new people, went out places, and was instructed in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I have decided that I have been a hermit far too long. I will soon be back to business though, but with some extra fun things thrown in, to make my life […]

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Losers and Keepers

Saturday, June 27, 2009

I’m in the process of going through my possessions, deciding what to keep and what to purge. I made this sketch showing some books I’ll be holding on to and some that I’ll be forgetting about. Books are special objects to me and I often connect their ownership to certain people and circumstances. It was […]

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Sketching Our Clutter

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

All of these glasses belong to the same person, not me. They are of all different prescriptions, and most of them aren’t even used anymore. I wandered around the house collecting these and there were more than could fit on one page.

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Scene from Snow Farm

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Scene from Snow Farm (8 x 10), dip pen and wash on Arches 140 lb cp, 5/31/09 I finished this on Sunday afternoon and handed it off Monday morning to be displayed in an arts fundraiser event being held at my workplace this week. I also donated it to be auctioned off at a silent […]

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Pen and Ink Trees WIP

Sunday, May 31, 2009

WIP, dip pen (8 x 10) on 140 lb Arches cold press I fully intended to post this yesterday, but I got a bit behind and ended up working until pretty late last night. I underestimated how much time pen and ink really takes me and I got a late start as well. Rather than […]

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Evening Sketches at Snow Farm

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Drum and Table, ink and white colored pencil in sketchbook, 4/27/09 My Evening Companions, ink and white colored pencil in sketchbook, 4/28/09 While I was at Snow Farm, I tried to fill all my awake non studio hours with sketching. After dinner we usually had an evening activity of some sort, like a guest artist […]

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