Articles for July, 2009

How to become a full time artist and still live like a normal person

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Every sin­gle day of my life I think; How can I paint full time and still live like a nor­mal per­son? By nor­mal I mean eat­ing real foods instead of pb&j, have health insur­ance and still be able to pick up the din­ner tab with my boyfriend once in…

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Un related to art…

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

My cat Jackson

Posted by Dee

a visit to AIC, Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell

Friday, July 10th, 2009

My own paint­ings have shifted towards that of land­scapes, places remem­bered and depicted as abstract topo­graph­i­cal maps. Upon my own paint­ing I have been research­ing the work of Joan Mitchell and Cy Twombly, whose paint­ings though vastly dif­fer­ent in con­tent are both equally expres­sive and have cer­tain par­al­lels in style.…

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Summer reading list!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Read­ing: Brideshead Revis­ited by Eve­lyn Waugh There are many dif­fer­ent illus­trated cov­ers of this book and I really enjoy the vary­ing styles.  I love this story of desire and loss and have been really enjoy­ing this book to the point where I am still think­ing about the char­ac­ters when I’m…

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Red Wing Black Bird Attack!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The other day I was rid­ing to the stu­dio with David East on Grand Avenue right by Smith Park. On this par­tic­u­lar day I decided not to wear my hel­met for a change, it was hot and I wanted to feel the wind through my super short hair. Rid­ing along…

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