Category Archives: Do the Work

Trying out the new 3/4″ angle brush

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Reading this week

I heard about this book yesterday on the radio – and after I got the paint that I’d gone out for I stopped at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza and secured a copy of The Power of Kindness by … Continue reading →

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For the Quote Box

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola

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For the quote box – why poetry?

I do not believe that a violent imitation of the horrors of our times is the concern of poetry. Horrors are taken for granted. Disorder is ordinary. People in general take more and more “in their stride” — the hides … Continue reading →

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What You’ll See and Not See in 2017

So it’s a bizarre thing to be a blogger and an artist and writer. Part of the reason I blog is to share my process and work in progress along with whatever catches my eye or ends up in my … Continue reading →

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