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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Friday, December 13, 2013. Oklahoma" gets a bad rap, just like "Nebraska" and "Kansas" - notorious for states that are boring to drive through. I will admit that there is a whole lot of SKY. But that much sky also gives an opportunity to see things you could never see in the forest. Because in fact, it's never the same.

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Drawing from life: Heart of Darkness: finding the story

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Heart of Darkness: finding the story. I wanted to put myself in the minds of the Africans as much as possible. It meant finding the pre-colonization peace, which would deepen the anger and injustice of the ongoing colonialist oppression. It meant finding. And Face Full of Flour. And the civil rights movement.

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Drawing from life: Water Brush

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Update 2/28: this was ideal until the canister broke apart on me at a coffee shop yesterday. So, back to regular paint brushes in the travel kit. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Drawing from life: New blog

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. It was only a matter of time before I would find a website-o-matic that offered both a store front AND a blog platform that actually made sense to use. I have done that, so I'm sorry to say that I am leaving blogspot behind and will pick up right where this leaves off here: http:/ www.simplykumquat.com/blog/.

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Drawing from life: Sunk in the drink

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Friday, March 7, 2014. Sunk in the drink. February has been an incredibly difficult one for me: creatively, financially and psychologically. Without meaning to be. So there's nothing for it but to keep going. And sometimes that means doggedly marching forward into the abyss with no expectations. It's the no expectations. Because in all hon...

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Drawing from life: Over the river and through the woods

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Tuesday, November 26, 2013. Over the river and through the woods. It has been over ten years since I've made the traditional Thanksgiving trek to Grandma's house. (In fact, it's been over eight years since I've even seen. Her, which is a crying shame.). I have mentioned before that Thanksgiving was the special gathering. Holiday in my fami...

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Drawing from life

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Friday, November 11, 2011. There are so few holidays we Americans have left that focus not on commercialism but on simple things like making things. I know there’s a huge emphasis on consumption. The feasting - but what good self respecting holiday isn’t about feasting? Update, Nov. 2012:. Doing a little more self-educating about the Thank...

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Drawing from life: Snow

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Sunday, February 9, 2014. We went “Wauklyn” in a Winter Wonderland yesterday — not many opportunities for us to do that here in the mild maritime pocket of Portland. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Drawing from life: What I've been working on

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Be the drawing you wish to become. Research more into diner slang. And rename all the dishes in regular rotation. What to do in an earthquake. Reclaim the day of rest. Friday, January 10, 2014. What I've been working on. Back in October I learned that The Folio Society. In collaboration with House of Illustration. Had announced their 2014 book competition. I missed last year's contest by a hare's whisker, so I was really exhilarated to catch this one in time. On essentially the same grounds that I do&#46...