tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63141337750657677582024-02-22T08:59:36.682-08:00Alice McMahonArt blog for professional visual artist Alice McMahon, specializing in magic realist drawings.Alice McMahonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732593753243595055noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-70601057306418926112015-05-05T10:04:00.000-07:002015-05-05T10:32:01.619-07:00Alice McMahon Gallery: Open Studio Event<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Please join me for a two day gallery opening event at my private studio at 609 S. Prospect St. Apt 1, Galena, IL.<br />
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Wine, beer and cheese opening night, Friday May 8th 5 pm to midnight. Tea and cookies Saturday afternoon, May 9th, noon to 6 pm. Drop in any time during the two day event.<br />
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View works in progress, and all art and some fine antiques will be available for purchase. Special savings offered on commissioned artwork.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the easel, March 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portrait commission, work in progress May, 2015</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to my studio! Works from The White Album series in the entry hall.</td></tr>
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Also showing selected limited edition signed and numbered letterpress prints from Russian artist Vladimir Fokanov and Peter Fraterdeus of Slowprint, Dubuque, IA.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-79522844750651527842014-09-09T23:20:00.000-07:002014-09-09T23:20:06.925-07:00Galena's Horseshoe Mound Public Art Project<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Earth has Music for those who Listen." ~ George Santanaya</td></tr>
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<span class="fsl">I was honored to be invited to create artwork to be on one of six benches installed at Horseshoe Mound Preserve in Galena, IL. The benches are made of indigenous oak and were crafted by area craftsman Larry Cording. </span><br />
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<span class="fsl">This beautiful scenic area is one of the highest points in Jo Daviess County. </span><br />
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enhance natural wildlife habitat, cultural heritage, agricultural
character, and the scenic vistas of Jo Daviess County and the
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My design was intended to show the geology of the area, so I depicted the Mound itself, the Galena (formerly Fever) River, a cardinal, a cone flower, monarch butterfly, a tree frog, snail, bumble bee, a grasshopper and dragonfly in an early autumn landscape painted in a whimsical style. This acrylic painting on wood was outside of my comfort zone, but I had fun with it. My first public art project. <br />
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Looking forward to seeing all of the art benches at the grand opening at the end of September, 2014. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-18680959075621008282014-08-27T22:42:00.003-07:002014-08-27T22:49:05.381-07:00Small Daily Sketches<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Some small, quick daily sketches of regional wildflowers and grasses, studies for an upcoming portrait commission. Enjoying my Pro Artist Watercolor Travel Kit by Windsor Newton and brushing up my skills for September travel journaling in the EU!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-19324713785737129842014-08-19T21:39:00.000-07:002014-08-27T22:01:01.108-07:00"Dear Trixie" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Dear Trixie" posthumous portrait of our lovely friend Lisa Hammer, pen name Trixie Kitsch, <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lisa was kind and generous, a talented artist and writer, she had a biting sense of humor <br />and a heart of gold. She saw through our veneer and loved our souls. <br />The world lost a great woman at Valentine's week, 2014. <br /><br />Farewell Dear Trixie, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-90827571903736354952014-08-01T21:19:00.000-07:002014-08-27T21:20:53.602-07:00"Thinking Itself Is Love - Self Portrait with Brain Tumor" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: small;">After thinking about this project for over a year, I finally made this self portrait. I used references from my MRI scans that were taken before neurosurgery to remove a benign Meningioma brain tumor. I am doing very well, nearly two years post-op. Thank you to everyone who supported me during this most trying time of my life. I really don't know where I would be without all of you.<br /><br />I have spent a great deal of time thinking about how a broken heart might effect the mind and physical and mental health. Forgiveness and Love are always the answer. </span></td></tr>
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<i>"…the heart is not broken, in the sense that it does not exist before the break. But it is the break itself that makes the heart. The heart is not an organ, and neither it is a faculty. It is: that I is broken and traversed by the other where its presence is most intimate and its life is most open. The beating of the heart - rhythm of the partition of being, syncope of the sharing of singularity - cuts across presence, life, consciousness. That is why thinking - which is nothing other than the weighing or testing of the limits, the ends, of presence, of life, of consciousness - <b>thinking itself is love</b>."</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-85418855346063215702014-08-01T21:12:00.001-07:002014-08-01T21:12:32.991-07:00"Dove and Peonies" Commission<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Commissioned charcoal drawing on beige paper with white pastel pencil. 10 x 8"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-26791890968285119132014-06-01T21:01:00.000-07:002014-08-01T21:13:49.279-07:00Magnolia and Dove<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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8 x 8" charcoal and white pastel pencil on beige paper. A gift for a friend. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-86358697742759261412014-05-25T16:53:00.003-07:002014-05-25T17:01:00.861-07:00Tim: Portrait CommissionThis portrait was commissioned by the subject, great character is evident!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-59339174667842832452014-05-08T09:09:00.001-07:002014-05-08T09:09:06.572-07:00Cardinal<p>For my Mom. <3</p>
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Sometimes a quiet time of reflection in a beautiful space is all the inspiration we need. Daily sketches seed ideas to larger plans. Looking inward adds richness to the creative process. There is time and a place for peace and contemplation, and it is good.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victorian interior suits my style and high ceilings suit my easel. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to springtime on the three season porch and back patio.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bouquet from the garden. I also have a raised bed for herbs and vegetables.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pocket door detail, beauty wherever I look.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawing room, with a view! Plenty of room for entertaining and for teaching.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-29134158081759512972014-02-13T11:45:00.001-08:002014-02-13T11:45:48.850-08:00Ground Zero sketchImage created with Snapseed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-yC382dUKnXt37aR56BSYRbpQnpuJn9byKMiKIRNpgMdv-BfOxNsV3VO79IE7qckJrqSYVCinuWd6399odeLK44aCeC8yWIuoFRZqe7ZqFYznZiefFoUInX03MvLGOgEB3drIhyphenhyphenHNZI/s1600/IMG_20140213_134007_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-yC382dUKnXt37aR56BSYRbpQnpuJn9byKMiKIRNpgMdv-BfOxNsV3VO79IE7qckJrqSYVCinuWd6399odeLK44aCeC8yWIuoFRZqe7ZqFYznZiefFoUInX03MvLGOgEB3drIhyphenhyphenHNZI/s640/IMG_20140213_134007_1.jpg"> </a> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0Madison, Madison43.07305 -89.40123tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-28784660022875094562014-02-07T13:14:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:13:23.864-08:00One Sketch A Day<div style="text-align: center;">
Five weeks in!</div>
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A lovely Solstice gift from a friend has turned into what I hope will be a year long project. The "One Sketch A Day"sketchbook has been filling out day by day. I splurged and bought a nice "Pen & Ink" brand fountain pen to go along with the gift.<br />
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I have not been making enough art during my traumatic events of the past few years. It feels good to be drawing regularly again. The act of creating, even if only for just a few minutes a day, is meditative and opens my mind to ideas for larger projects in the future.<br />
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I tend to draw from fifteen minutes to an hour per session and subjects are whatever I see around me during my daily routine. Life is busy and if I skip a day's sketch I make two small sketches the next day or one larger one, full page. I am drawing from observation instead of using reference photographs. I like the diary aspect of the project as well. Five weeks in, I feel my confidence returning and I am not as intimidated to begin as I was the first week or two. I get excited when I see something I want to add to the book and often fire right in. In the coming months I hope to draw more people who may be out enjoying life's quiet moments in establishments or outdoor settings in Galena and other places I travel.<br />
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I am looking forward to where this journal will take me throughout year. Happy to be alive and well and able to make art one year post craniotomy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Through My Kitchen Window/Banister Detail January 25 - 28</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marty & Peter/Walnut Ink January 5/6, 2014</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Galena River Wine & Cheese - in Snow" </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Banister Detail, Galena, IL</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-53465075521567183552014-02-03T17:35:00.000-08:002014-02-07T17:35:24.848-08:00Courting Candle Daily Sketch<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAyOKEYtJ27RRMVNXauu_dMFxlwDix5bOpHPqcWVhxSRxNhfdnqMaqylP5oNqeIAJLiEOtegiEY9t33xsaCO4Y83JKFtpdID8WNuvW8bGk_ijn0ZhIrVHfyHZ0jKUF_ppOfYHJdkBEpY/s1600/Courtship+candle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpAyOKEYtJ27RRMVNXauu_dMFxlwDix5bOpHPqcWVhxSRxNhfdnqMaqylP5oNqeIAJLiEOtegiEY9t33xsaCO4Y83JKFtpdID8WNuvW8bGk_ijn0ZhIrVHfyHZ0jKUF_ppOfYHJdkBEpY/s1600/Courtship+candle.jpg" height="640" width="480" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Candlemas" Courting Candle </td></tr>
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Catch up sketch, two days in one. This was done on Candlemas, also known at Imbolc and Groundhog's Day. The Courting Candle history is found <a href="http://www.timelesswroughtiron.com/history-of-courting-candles-s/175.htm">here</a>. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-62871756010021928082014-01-20T16:03:00.000-08:002014-02-07T16:03:37.883-08:00Chocolates Daily Sketch<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgWiL0bfmOOkRkHqXK0MwpZgALV1yZ0St9GsVGDv-xLJFJcYY96iMk8SpRpNxYe_BFPyv9A2aTuU2M654iUsVJuN5jS73qLALQZCXfAAJnsQOKOSEb-Ou2RiUO5-2Djav_BsN7vnfUbk/s1600/Chocolates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgWiL0bfmOOkRkHqXK0MwpZgALV1yZ0St9GsVGDv-xLJFJcYY96iMk8SpRpNxYe_BFPyv9A2aTuU2M654iUsVJuN5jS73qLALQZCXfAAJnsQOKOSEb-Ou2RiUO5-2Djav_BsN7vnfUbk/s1600/Chocolates.jpg" height="301" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Fannie May" 3 x 5" chocolates were a gift from my daughter, drawn on a favorite floral plate!</td></tr>
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This sketch was done with my fountain pen and two shades of gray markers. I loved this technique, but unfortunately the markers bled through the sketch paper! Made for an interesting "verso" sketch two days out! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-7516733787640814922014-01-18T15:54:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:54:43.818-08:00Sketches Inspired by Inspiring Friends! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Peter's Flute" with Peter Fraterdeus </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Mortar & Pestle - found at Pinder Pottery" 3 x 5" </td></tr>
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"One Sketch A Day." The top sketch was done with a marker, the bottom with my freshly flushed fountain pen. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-6546296263401605422014-01-16T15:45:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:46:15.074-08:00Walnut Ink Studies<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bird Sanctuary?" 5 x 6"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"From My Studio" 5 x 6"</td></tr>
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Studio interior and wild life fun, that was one squirrel but he was difficult to capture so I drew him twice! Walnut ink made by my friend Thom Metcalf, dipped the fountain pen for these but still had trouble with the ink drying out and paper scratching through. Dry overheated air, with this winter's extreme Polar Vortex conditions. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-35611996104762614502014-01-12T15:22:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:22:56.618-08:00Four Daily Sketches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyA0G2pZ_QXlqoSgYgW5tG69RxLX2MaUcmdH3-zs1TXL6CUG2R0BUnxAf6p-pZGWhZaOS0W_nkQ8WKLGM8i-livKQgdmwpo0fLBVJaY6GhyuC9pyDyuMKa_gish_sOs1eN1WnYrYTp74/s1600/jan+sketches.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbyA0G2pZ_QXlqoSgYgW5tG69RxLX2MaUcmdH3-zs1TXL6CUG2R0BUnxAf6p-pZGWhZaOS0W_nkQ8WKLGM8i-livKQgdmwpo0fLBVJaY6GhyuC9pyDyuMKa_gish_sOs1eN1WnYrYTp74/s1600/jan+sketches.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Daily Sketches in my One Sketch A Day journal, each page 5 x 6"</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-76356245201620999542014-01-08T15:38:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:38:53.530-08:004 Up<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spread of four daily sketches</td></tr>
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Having some trouble with my fountain pen drying out and the thin paper of the sketch a day journal bleeds through. Still like the results on this four day stretch! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-50525522655969943532014-01-06T15:17:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:18:21.612-08:00Two Daily Sketches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Marty and Peter at the Grape Escape" Galena, IL and "Walnut Ink" 6 x 5" overall.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-87707201070006987962014-01-04T15:10:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:12:59.048-08:00One Sketch A Day: Cuties<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNML18bE6IZ0pFeWkhoDf97-ddmxGWv1gEtUPDodHWd7EZdsPR4NNe-wQsv8jQLuFMMB84BvrzrUyuwG1MYYqG7PyXbqFi5DnoQUNS2bJavc7-5RDSWfwnHA43-EUeJbtV1LY61uRmQI/s1600/1526812_10201863742129011_416051078_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNML18bE6IZ0pFeWkhoDf97-ddmxGWv1gEtUPDodHWd7EZdsPR4NNe-wQsv8jQLuFMMB84BvrzrUyuwG1MYYqG7PyXbqFi5DnoQUNS2bJavc7-5RDSWfwnHA43-EUeJbtV1LY61uRmQI/s1600/1526812_10201863742129011_416051078_n.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Cuties" 3 x 5" </td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13113752325689553668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314133775065767758.post-48682865397473556562014-01-03T15:07:00.000-08:002014-02-07T15:08:16.454-08:00My Left Hand<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One Sketch A Day: My Left Hand, 3 x 5"</td></tr>
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