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Book Review: The Thirteenth Tale
I really enjoyed this book and give it a provisional five stars. It is well written and engaging, about...
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Our Fabulous Church Flowers Today
My husband cut down our purple asters and brought them in to avoid being frozen, and we took them...
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Garden Harvest Before First Freeze
It is going to freeze tonight for the first time this fall so we have brought in most of...
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Notes from Richard McKinley’s Pastel Workshop
You can see here the notes I took for the class, preserved both for my reference and yours.
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New Plein Air Pastel Landscape: Florence Griswold View
I enjoyed painting this with my pastel class last week at the Florence Griswold Museum. The weather was glorious...
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Early Fall Reflections
These early fall reflections that I saw around Great Hollow Lake this morning were stunning and pristine ...
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Book Review: Dahveed (Series)
If you are interested in detailed, fictional accounts of old testament characters, this author is one you should not...
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Portraits of Plein Air Artists at Work
I enjoyed the people in my plein air painting class. Richard McKinley (above) is an accomplished and well known...
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Salmon Colored Sunset
What I liked about this sunset was the color was bizarrely unusual, and it was almost like my camera...
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In the Presence of Swans
I had never seen so many swans in one place before, and I wished for my zoom lens, which...
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Thumbnails, Notans, and Field Sketches
In the class I've been taking with Richard McKinley, he discussed in detail a process he uses to formulate...
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Wee Faerie Village
Our Pastel class painted at the Florence Griswold Museum today and their current outdoors exhibit is the "Wee Faerie...