Cedar Writes

Category: Art

  • Artfully: Day 3

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    Again with the doodle before class. I need to figure out a better way than the touchpad of my laptop. It limits me in many ways, and although that in itself is a challenge, to see what I can create within those limits, it means I can’t let my brain stretch its wings fully. Tomorrow,…

  • December Artfully

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    I’ve decided I’m going to create art every day in December. For one thing, that gives me an out if I’m too busy to blog (sorry, but reality is that I’m going to attempt a full-length novel between Dec 11 and Jan 26, plus a ten day trip to visit family on two coasts). For…

  • Cherry Fox

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    Sometimes I just want to share my art because it makes me happy…

  • Naughty Reindeer

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    Happy Black Friday from the Curmudgeon’s Corner! Here’s what Rudolph thinks of this particular day…

  • Art: Background

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    Working on the painting I have in my head. Hit my time limit, so here’s what I have so far. I may take another 30 min time slot for it later. What do you think should go in the foreground?

  • Beginnings

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    Everything begins somewhere. I stole an hour from my schedule yesterday to begin with Photoshop. You can follow along, too, here at the Digital Painting lessons at Ctrl Paint. They are free, and best of all for me, short. I got through the first two, and stopped to play awhile with what I’d learned. I…

  • Trees & Color

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    All the colors of the trees are revealed at this time of year… what follows are photos from here in Ohio, and ones from previous autumns spent in New England. The time of color has almost passed, here, and I know from experience that New Hampshire will be almost bare of leaves, especially if there…

  • Fantastic Illustrations

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    As a companion piece to my Mad Genius Club post on a century of Fantasy in prose, here are some illustrations from the two oldest books I used, the 1890 Andrew Lang Red Fairy Book, and the 1920 edition of Arabian Nights.

  • Rainy Dahlias

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      Playing with color, or lack thereof. Shot this weekend in Kentucky. 

  • Monday

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    Monday is not a kind day to me, this semester. After years of running a business where Monday was essentially my weekend (coming as it does after two-three days of performing) I have four classes and have to be ‘on’ from 8:30 to 9 for those classes. Which is why you’re going to start seeing…

  • Pen and Ink

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    I rarely work with pen and ink… not that way! Words, sure, but not drawing. Too easy to make one slip, and no erasing that mistake. But I wanted to draw during a class, because I do that to keep me focused when I’m not taking notes, and I hadn’t dropped a pencil in my…

  • What do I want?

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    “What did I want? I wanted a Roc’s egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword,. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted…