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Recommended reading and listening

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

I read it and had huge ah HA! moments. The (couples) therapy wasn’t successful but I found it personally successful. Since then, I’ve recommended the book to lots of people over the years, along with a couple others by the same author. Continue reading →

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How far can it go?

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

I worked with this little watercolor painting tonight from the spontaneous watercolor landscape workshop. Continue reading →

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Spontaneous Watercolor Class Part Three

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

I’ll have to go back and watch part two again because in part three, it seemed doing wet on dry was quite different – and it worked great to make funky little edges and shapes Continue reading →

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Monday already.

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

When I woke up this morning I was an itchy mess. Or at least my neck and chin were an itchy mess. I was going to take some benadryl, but I guess this doesn’t happen often enough (thank goodness) so the first order of business for the day was to drive to Nassau and get some Benadryl to replace what I had with an expiration of 2017. Continue reading →

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Second go at Spontaneous Landscape Starts

Posted on May 3, 2023 by Mary Beth Frezon

Got the wet on wet one less wet but still pretty juicy. The other one is cool looking but nothing in it really speaks landscape to me. I am thinking it’s so dark it may need gouache to paint on … Continue reading →

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