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Whistler and Lautrec April 8, 2016 20:40

The Falling Rocket by James MacNeil WhistlerWhistler would work on a painting for hours and be all happy about it for 15 minutes, "It's GREAT!", bragging all over about it, and then an hour later he'd go and scrape it off the canvas, terrified that someone would see it and think what a crap artist he was. Read more...

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Competitions February 21, 2016 15:01 3 Comments

The various requirements of competitions have forced me to think about how I describe what I do not only to the rest of the world but how it feels to me, to put that feeling into words so that I can examine it and think about it further. Read more...

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