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The Break of Dawn and Descriptive Dissonance
In a book I’m reading–Wicked Appetite, by Janet Evanovich– I came across the following passage. The sky was growing brighter by the minute with the promise of sunrise… It made me think about sunrise here on our tiny island of … Continue reading
Posted in The Writing Process, writing, Writing process
Tagged dawn, daybreak, descriptions, sunrise
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Caribbean Colbert 2.0
Some cats are just meant to be drawn over and over. That’s my handsome Colbert. For months, Colbert’s portraiture has been eluding me. Yesterday’s drawing showed promise and got me closer to capturing his personality than ever before. The truth: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, writing, Writing process
Tagged drawing, improving, practice, Writing
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DrEllie’s Turn–A New Writing Challenge
Lately, it seems to me that every blogger I have followed for several years has turned to creating writing challenges of one sort or another. Whether to challenge themselves or to simply and genuinely challenge others, or even to try … Continue reading
Posted in writing, Writing challenge, Writing process
Tagged art challenge, photo challenge, poetry challenge, poetry101, Writing challenge, writing101
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Falling Behind
It has been several days since I posted anything more than a Zentangle. It is not that I have been too busy to write. Rather, I feel as though I am reacting to the languidity of the local weather–torpid, oppressive, … Continue reading
Amazed
Two things amazed me today. The first was that I was able to salvage a Zentangled tile from when I was playing around with brush pen markers. The second was the response I get when I re-post other bloggers’ helpful … Continue reading
Posted in Art, writing, Writing process
Tagged Publishing, Writers Group, writing challenges, writing tools, Zentangle
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Turn 45 Degrees…
After botching up several attempts at Day 18 in One Zentangle a Day, I decided to change my perspective. So, I started by turning my tile 45 degrees. Instantly, I got an idea to do something a little different with … Continue reading
Posted in Art, writing
Tagged Cadent, Charles Stross, Gneiss, Huggins, meditation, One Zentangle a Day, perspective, The Laundry Files, Zentangle
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Moving On
Today, even though my hands were tremulous, I decided to do one last Zentangle or a ZIA. Hopefully, the tremor is temporary and my hands will be steady again in a few days. If not, well… I still have time … Continue reading
Posted in meditation, writing, Zentangle
Tagged learning to draw, patience, practice
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Impermanence
While messing around with Day 15’s three tangles–Yincut, Locar, and Verdigogh–I got an idea that would also include the three patterns from Day 14–Dyon, Chainging, and Keeko. It’s not a Zentangle, nor Zentangle Inspired Art (ZIA); but I think I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, meditation, writing, Zentangle
Tagged art permanence, becoming, blogging, drawing, erasure, One Zentangle a Day, Writing Process
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Reflected Shadow?
In art, we have all heard about reflected light–that indirect light that is reflected from the surfaces around the subject of a drawing or painting, but that is not part of the light source shining directly on the object. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Learning to Write, writing, Zentangle
Tagged clues, foreshadow, learning to draw, light source, observation, reflected light, reflected shadow, shade, shading, shadow, writing devices, writing techniques
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