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Saw this last night…
A documentary about taking 14 DC inner city kids taken into the West Virginia woods for 8 days. It shows how facilitators work with the kids to help bring them out to see that they can make positive changes in the world. It hit home, in so many ways and really allowed me to think…
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Wait for it…..
Construction on our front porch was supposed to start a week ago. But, we’ve been delayed. The rain, other projects our contractor is working on all disabled our project for about 10 days. It’s ok, it just builds the anticipation, right? I seriously can’t wait to have a dedicated work space for art. It really…
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Being creative…in the kitchen
So, my art doesn’t always take place in a studio or on a canvas. It takes place in a kitchen some weekends. And this was one of those weekends. With my husband’s birthday fast approaching I decided to make him a birthday cake– not just any old birthday cake. This recipe comes from the CIA…
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Making time to make “an art”
You know what I mean. It’s hard sometimes. There’s that full time job, commitments after that full time job, people and dog to care of. But, I still have the lofty goal that I will make something everyday. For me that mostly turns out to be examples or demonstrations for my students. I suppose it’s…
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New Studio space
One of the reasons I started this blog was because I’m in the process of creating my own small studio space. My husband I decided to enclose the porch of our house and make it a part of our home. In a few weeks I hope to have a space where I can leave out…
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Revisiting: Phases, a huge departure
This painting is a huge departure from what I normally do. There is no collage. Just writing, and it isn’t in some sort of a grid, but centers around a circle. I used warm colors against a stark background. I have never known if I had thought this was completely finished. So I have left…
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Revisiting: Squares
I’ve decided to try to upload some of my old my work that I do, so that at the very least it’s out there. I really feel like I’m at a crossroads professionally. While I certainly enjoy being an art educator and LOVE to teach, I feel that I need to practice being an artist…
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Revisiting: Floating Squares
Ok, so I made this one like a super long time ago. Well, kind of. I prepared the background years ago when i lived in New Mexico (wow- like 9 years ago). When I moved back to the east coast, it was still starting at me. It said,” I’m blank, do something with me!”. So…
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Revisiting: Gridded Squares
Ok, so this painting is not really at all what I usually do, but i thought it would be a good one to go to next because the last one contained a few boxes with lots of writing. I like squares/boxes/windows/passages (whatever you would like to see them as). For the purpose of this one,…
Kate Fitzpatrick 