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Courting the Muse: Inspired by Light
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Courting the Muse
AKA Confessions of a Recovering Realist
Cat ladies are back! Cat ladies are back!
Cat ladies are back! Cat ladies are back! Back in the day, I painted cat ladies. Red haired ladies with big hair. Big lips. Big honkin'...
You can take the girl out of the studio but…
Once upon a time I had a studio, a magical place filled with light from four skylights and three walls of windows. The fourth wall was the...
SQUEE! It’s (almost) time for Open Studios! Happy Dance Time!
Whoa...it's that time of year again! Open Studios! Yay! Time to cruise the scenic back roads of Nevada County, take in the fall colors and...
Red, She Said!
RED. I'm liking red these days. I mean, really really liking it. Juicy rich SATURATED nothin' subtle about it RED. Bold. Beautiful....
November
November has a bad rep. Cold. Dark way too early. Leaves that stunned in October with colors so brilliant you took hundreds of photos that...
(Re)Birthin’ a Blog
Long ago and far, far away, in the early days of the blogosphere, I had a couple of blogs. I guess there weren't many friends in the...
Family Affair
The yummy gorgeous art you see up above was painted by my sister Marjorie Ellen. My big sister, older by just enough years to be a huge...
Exhale
This is a true story. As right and true as all those years of remembering can make it. The only thing I recall about that day, that...
Like a Child
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child.” Pablo Picasso Note: This post first appeared 10 years...
Susan Lobb Porter
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