Category Archives: Do the Work

Calling it done

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I’ve been working on this most of the week, on and off, and I’m calling it done. I learned a lot doing it and I’m pretty darn pleased with how it turned out. Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-two

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

standing in a park cold breeze mutes the noisy crowd wishing the earth well focussed on intent, sending hope for the future something we all must work for must come with action. Short poem today – a couple days of … Continue reading →

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Watercolorists at Work

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

One of the books I brought home today was this: Watercolorists at Work by Susan Meyer and Norman Kent, 1972. Norman Kent, when editor of American Artist had asked twenty-five artists to contribute to a book showing their process. His … Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo Day Twenty

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Laying paint film by glaze by blotch •
reveling in the occasionally brilliant stroke Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo, Day Nineteen

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Had this notion on the way to work about the color of the world seeping up toward the sky in spring but on the way home I saw my first of the wonderful white flowering shrubs that to me really … Continue reading →

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