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Impression Evergreen - Dan Miller Art

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Bighorn Sheep Winter - Colored Pencil Drawing. Bighorn Sheep II" Colored Pencil. Rocky Mountain thunder cracks across the gray, November sky. Heard for miles around, the stirring echoes are from the violent clash between massive combatants who are desperate to prove their masculine dominance. In 1936 the Arizona Boy Scouts mounted a sympathetic campaign to rescue the bighorn sheep. A "Save the Bighorns" art contest launched in schools throughout the state garnered national attention. Once made aw...Inten...

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Literary Snippets: Composition 101

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. Random Thoughts, Great Ideas and the Elements of Style. By any other name, is the series of steps that takes the writer from a goal to a collection of related ideas, to organized drafts and to a finished piece. If a term paper, an office memo or a blog post is your goal, the process is the same. The exercise is called “composition.”. Good writing has an aim,. Let’s Collect Our Thoughts. It’s easy for us to imagine likely events in the life of the quarrelsome couple who ...

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Literary Snippets: The Symbol of Our Labor

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. The Symbol of Our Labor. Hidden wisdom and mysterious revelations. He peril of our new way of life was not lest we should fail in becoming real-life farmers, but that we should probably cease to be anything else. While our enterprise lay all in theory, we had pleased ourselves with delectable visions of the spiritualization of labor. It was to be our form of prayer and ceremonial of worship. It is very true. 8212;Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance. Gary has significa...

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Literary Snippets: Creativity Is not Always Child's Play

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. Creativity Is not Always Childs Play. Ll you need for an excellent exercise that stimulates a young child's imagination is a blank sheet of paper and a few crayons of different colors. A creative spirit and busy little hands will do the rest. It’s not so easy for us adults! While creativity can be as easy as child's play, for an artist or a craftsman, creativity can mean painstaking work. The Magic and Wonder of Creativity. Quantum Leaps of Creativity. Some riddles are so dif...

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Literary Snippets: Your Natural Voice as a Writer

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. Your Natural Voice as a Writer. Clues From How the Caged Bird Sings. Long time ago, I met a young woman and in our first conversation, it came out that she sang with a choir. I told her I couldn't sing, and I confided that I would love to be able to do it. I never forgot her reply. 8212;Chances are you can sing, first you have to find your range. Every Writer Has a Voice. Become familiar with your voice to put yourself in the best position for training. Your Voice Has a Range.

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Literary Snippets: The Art of Reading

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. The Art of Reading. A Personal Account of an Ongoing Relationship With Words. Ve always been fond of dictionaries for as long as I can remember. As a teenager, one Christmas, I asked a relative for a dictionary as my holiday present. It was a Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. An edition in hard cover with red cloth. The high school I attended. Assigned Victorian Era books like Oliver Twist. To teenagers who don’t have the vocabulary to understand, let alone appreciate, t...

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Literary Snippets: Writing for the Love of Writing

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. Writing for the Love of Writing. Have many friends who are artists, painters for the most part. For them, art seems to be a way of life. They sketch, draw and paint because it is second nature and they love what they do. It seems as though there is nothing else they would rather be doing. Reading Is Part of the Job Description. My ongoing search to find worthwhile books to read inspired this blog post. Choice Is a Luxury. I am mostly interested in mysteries and thrillers and ...

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Literary Snippets: Drama

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. This list of dramatic situations was created by Georges Polti. 1867 - 1946), a French writer. To humbly petition) The Supplicant is chased, harmed or otherwise threatened by the Persecutor and begs for help from the Power in Authority. The Unfortunate is threatened in some way by the Threatener and is saved by the Rescuer. CRIME PURSUED BY VENGEANCE. The Avenger wreaks vengeance on the Criminal for past crimes. VENGEANCE TAKEN FOR KINDRED UPON KINDRED. Two relatives compete o...

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Literary Snippets: The Power of Intention

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Gary Gauthier's Author Blog. The Power of Intention. Caterpillar can fall into a deep sleep, undergo a metamorphosis, and wake up as the butterfly it was meant to be. You and I don't have that luxury. We are, however, blessed with the ability to dream of, and aspire to, great accomplishments. But dreams and aspirations alone are weak forces. We need more to help us manifest our full potential. We need a strong force. The smallest act begins with an intention. A guiding intention can take you far. Columbu...