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  • Drawing Performance

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    Drawing is a performance – It is one time then and there Of the moment As an act of creation is. Beatrice Darwin* Charcoal is a medium I’ve used for years, but never with such abandon until recently. I draw with willow and vine as well as compressed charcoals in stick and pencil form. Last…

  • Aimless Love, The Wideness and Wonder of the World

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    The title of my blog, Epiphany of the Everyday, refers to some wonder I see and fall in love with daily. The poet Billy Collins talks about this in his poem Aimless Love, which starts: This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren and later in the day…

  • The Next Big Thing Blog Tour

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    I was asked by artist illustrator Sara Kahn to participate in The Next Big Thing Blog Tour, which highlights authors and/or illustrators and their latest  books. You can see Sara’s luminous watercolor illustrations and read her interesting blog tour post from May 16, here. My blog will answer questions asked of all the participants in…

  • Corita Kent and the purpose of art

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    “Our purpose of art is to alert people to things they may have missed.”  Corita Kent Every day, I see some wonder, some epiphany in the arts and in nature that makes me want to clap my hands, jump up and down, shout ‘oh la la’, and do something about it like draw, paint or…