Cedar Writes

Category: Art

  • Juniper

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    I am showcasing my sister’s art today, not my own. I love the colors, the vibrancy, and the movement in these works, and I think you might enjoy them too. I love her very much, and wish she weren’t all those states away so I could hug her and paint with her!

  • Art Day

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    Normally on an art day I just put up a piece of art (if I can get the one I want off my laptop onto the machine! computers… growl) and a bit of commentary. But I’m starting to research for a planned article on art, and I was curious to hear what you, my readers,…

  • Desk Sweepings

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    It’s been a busy week, and it isn’t over yet. I’m falling behind on my writing schedule, which means that I shall write a short bit here, then accomplish breakfast, kiss my First Reader goodbye as he heads out to work… and take myself offline to do at least 3000 words. I think I can…

  • Read Fairy Tales

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    The full quote: “Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood…

  • Needed: Time

    Needed: Time

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    I never have enough of it, it seems, and yet, I still manage to carve a little out for myself. Last night the First Reader and I did something together we’d never done before: we watched a movie. It was nice, relaxing at home with the Avengers and dinner. I really need to make times…

  • Organic Design

    Organic Design

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    I’m still uploading, slowly, years worth of photos to DeviantArt, you can browse my gallery here.  As I’m doing it, I realize my first reader’s teasing is spot on. I really do stalk bugs for photos. Tons of bug pics in my archives, especially pollinators. So I was thinking. As I start to teach myself spaceship…

  • Artistic Style

    Artistic Style

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    I was sitting here for a long time this morning, staring at the blank text box and blinking cursor, trying to think about what to write. Tuesdays, in general, I try to devote to my art. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently, my art, whether it is the hobby end of it –…

  • Reality and Surreality

    Reality and Surreality

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    I had created a piece of art from a starting point of a photo I took this summer. The railroad bridge over the Little Miami River became a great, atmospheric piece when altered, and with the addition of a surreally large moon behind it. As I was contemplating what to say about it this morning,…

  • Just Before Spring

    Just Before Spring

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    The world seems darkest, as winter lingers on, throwing her shawl of white over the shoots that dare peep out. The gray seems to have overtaken the sun, and the world is bereft of joy. We go on each day, in faith that another follows, that there will be light, that summer returns, and there…

  • Dragons and Horses

    Dragons and Horses

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    I was sketching between *ahem* classes yesterday. I wouldn’t sketch in class. That would be a bad example for the younglings. Anyway… I had been getting a daily artwork to look at through an app on my tablet, and yesterday’s was this neat work, “Frenzy of Exultations” by a Polish artist whose name I could…

  • Moving Right Along

    Moving Right Along

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    I’m trying, as always, to keep my life scheduled and ordered… Oh, who am I kidding? It’s chaos, sorted by the pattern of a given day, and always subject to upheaval. Here on the blog, I’m going to give you an idea of what to expect, so if you only drop in for writing/publishing info,…

  • That Which Befalls People

    That Which Befalls People

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    I wrote about Bad Science over at Mad Genius Club, if you’re interested in researching and writing good hard science fiction you may want to wander over there. Here, I’m going to be brief. I’m studying Epidemiology this semester, or the study of that which befalls people. And really, as an author, I do that…