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Returning to Oil: The Prequel

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Brenda Clough

About this time last year I was blogging about my return to oil painting. Long ago in my life two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I instinctively took one rather than the other. I became a writer, pouring … Continue reading →

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Marching Band and Reading

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Diana Pharaoh Francis

Hi everyone! This weekend my daughter competed in the Regional Bands of America competition in Pleasant Hill, California. The good news is that they won their class and the final competition. They also won in all the competition categories. So … Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Books and Reading, family | Tagged diana pharaoh francis, marching band, reading

A Day at the Art Institute

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Kristine Smith

The Art Institute of Chicago is featuring a John Singer Sargent exhibit through the end of September. I hadn’t visited the museum in years, but a friend is a member and she and I both love Sargent’s work, so off … Continue reading →

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Catching Change; It Always Stays the Same

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Jill Zeller

The local radio station is playing in rotation a song called “Gold Rush”. While the band, Death Cab for Cutie, explains it’s about a romantic break-up, it’s clearly a eulogy for what is being lost in the current development tsunami … Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Art, Books and Reading, Memory, Music | Tagged Art, change, death cab for cutie, Jill Zeller, Jimi Hendrix, Music

Art of the Dudeltopf

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Jill Zeller

I started asking myself why people doodle. As such musings necessitate a definition, here is what The New Oxford American Dictionary offers: (hardbound edition, 2001) doodle scribble absentmindedly: he was only doodling in the margins I particularly like the origin … Continue reading →

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Scribblerjmz Notes: Art and Amtrak

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Jill Zeller

  I’m leaving DC on the way to Boston, then Salem, Massachusetts. I usually cancel my blog when I’m traveling but not this time—typing on a train is interesting. Typos obligatory. New thing for me, train travel. Only done this … Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged Burning Man, Jill Zeller, Latin American art, train travel

Returning to Oil: 4.0

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  This past Saturday was my last oil-painting class, and I have finished the fourth version of this landscape. My instructor assures me this is the best version yet. This was a paint-from photograph class, and as … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Talent Has Its Limits

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough  I had dinner with  my sister and brother this past weekend, and we were discussing (as one does) life. How do you know when you’ve ‘made it’? My sister said that she realized she had achieved … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: Loosening Up

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough In my painting class this week one of the other pupils remarked on my ability and interest in reworking the same basic scene. He himself never paints anything twice. This man has clearly never written a … Continue reading →

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Returning to Oil: On Beyond Zebra

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Brenda Clough

by Brenda W. Clough If there’s anything I’ve learned from being creative, it’s that you don’t just stay here. Like in the song, you move on — beyond the photo, beyond the plot, through to something new.Something of your own! … Continue reading →

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