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acrylic painting of a fox and a crazy creature jumping in the background

Fox and Crazy

I just finished this painting recently. It’s acrylic and a little watercolor on paper mounted to a wooden panel. It features a green creature jumping in alarm at the COVID-19

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Color

I was trying to figure out what the opposite color of brown was a week ago, and I found this website with a great color tool.  I have strong instincts

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Fear of Ruining It

I wrote in a previous post that Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t seem to have any fear in his art making process. Maybe in part because he was constantly making things. I

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Foxes

This fox arrived the other day and reminded me of how much I like foxes. They must be my favorite animal (after tigers). I have never met a fox, so

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Basquiat

I figured out this very cool thing over the summer. It’s obvious perhaps, but it had never occurred to me before. On our vacation to Acadia National Park, we stayed

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Shading

What I really need to learn how to do is to shade my illustrations in a convincing way. That’s a large part of why I wanted to learn how to

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RISD Grad Show

I went to the RISD Grad Show this weekend. It’s one of the highlights of my year. Here are some of my favorite things (from among the ones that could

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Apprendre le Français

Dear Readers, What better day than this rainy Monday to begin learning French? While, as you well know,  I’m not a fan of the French, I do like their language, and I

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Don’t

Hello dear readers! It is I, your good friend Harriet the rabbit, speaking from beyond the grave. You knew it would happen, didn’t you? I know Mickey knew I wouldn’t

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May I say something?

I am trying to learn to paint. One of my favorite artists, Yoshitomo Nara, makes these delicious backgrounds that have so many colors in them, but it’s very subtle. I have

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The Fox is Done!

Annie has just put the finishing touches on Fox.  He does not  have a name yet. Please leave a name suggestion in the comment box, and we will name him

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What We're Reading

Annie is reading, very slowly, Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust.

She is also reading Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein

Mickey is reading The Elevator by Yael Frankel.