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Disappointment and Trusting God
I have had this fear for a long time, …a fear of messing up or wasting good paper. Good watercolor paper is expensive. I have fallen into the trap of buying the cheaper paper far too many times. I can’t count the times I have used cheaper paper and had it begin to disintegrate…
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Back to School
This year I am doing something I haven’t done in 15 years. I am educating only one child at home . My youngest daughter, the cats, and I are enjoying our quiet mornings together while the rambunctious boys are enjoying the local public high school. So far the school year has begun quite…
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Picking Up The Brush (Peggys Cove Lighthouse, Painting #1)
Earlier this year I finally picked up a brush again. I painted three small 8 x 10 canvases using acrylic. My first was Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada. I painted from a photo that I had taken back in 2009. The day my dad and I visited Peggy’s Cove in 2009, it had…
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Ann Voskamp and My First Blogging Conference: Art Journey, Part 6
That is me and Melissa Michaels and Ann Voskamp at Relevant in 2010. (Back before either of them had officially released a published book. Melissa has two out now and I’ve lost count of Ann’s, she has several.) Attending Relevant was an eye opening experience, in a good way. (Back then it was called…
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Saved and Trapped All At Once: Art Journey, Part 4
So that guy I had a crush on that didn’t like me too much… well, lets just say I changed his mind. And he helped to change mine too, but I will get to that later. Though he may have thought me to be a monster while helping to get the Student Art show…