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AuthorbyKLRFebruary 16, 20210

Writing Postcards to Nature Daily for a Year

group of postcards to nature

Dear Nature, In 2020 my art world and my travel world came to a screeching halt due to the pandemic. All of my workshops, exhibitions and art fairs got canceled. …

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Posted in Bird Art, Botanical Art, Drawing, Inspiration, Works-in-progressTagged color studies, nature, postcards

AuthorbyKLRJanuary 1, 20207

Be Kinder, Be Bolder, Be Braver and…

Emmylou, the enigmatic cat

…don’t take any sh*t. I said goodbye to my beloved cat Emmylou yesterday, on the last day of 2019. Emmy was diagnosed with a very aggressive type of mouth cancer …

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Posted in Inspiration, Painting, Tales from TuckerWoods Farm

AuthorbyKLRJanuary 14, 20191

Winnie-the-Pooh, Part Too!

“So he sat down on the stone in the middle of the stream.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh   Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends were pretty much my all-time favorite books as …

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Posted in Drawing, Inspiration, My Travels

AuthorbyKLRDecember 28, 20180

My Favorite Things

christmas, crayons, reeses, reeses miniatures, pad, tulip

“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…” For starters, the Sound of Music is one of my all time favorite movies (I just watched it again last week.) My sisters, …

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Posted in Inspiration, My Travels

AuthorbyKLRDecember 21, 20181

Practice Makes Perfect

A daily drawing practice – something an artist should be able to do just like that (sound effect – snap of the fingers), right? Well, only partially right. Artists face …

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Posted in Bird Art, Botanical Art, Inspiration, My Travels, Wildlife Art, Works-in-progress

AuthorbyKLRDecember 19, 20163

The Artist and the Art Career Coach – A Match Made in Creative Heaven

The beauty and benefits of an artist/art career coach relationship… We all need a helping hand sometimes but we also need to give ourselves permission to seek out and accept …

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Posted in Inspiration, Painting

AuthorbyKLRSeptember 28, 20160

Impressions of Oswegatchie Hills

A place can be many things – somewhere you go in your own mind to remember, revisit or relax, or a physical place you experience in person. I go to …

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Posted in Inspiration, My Travels, Painting, Photography, Wildlife Art, Works-in-progress

AuthorbyKLRSeptember 1, 20160

Hummingbirds, Raccoons, and Great Blue Herons

The month of August was full of hummingbirds, raccoons, great blue herons and generally, birds! Despite a very hot & humid month, I still managed to get outside with my …

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Posted in Bird Art, Botanical Art, Inspiration, Photography, Works on Vellum, Works-in-progress

AuthorbyKLRAugust 2, 20160

Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words

‘A picture is worth a thousand words’; a trite, somewhat overused phrase but how true for me! Spending time outdoors I am a natural history painter; painting what I see …

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Posted in Inspiration, My Travels, Photography

AuthorbyKLRJuly 19, 20160

Reading While I Paint!

I love reading. I love to read. I love books. Did I say that I love reading?!! I don’t remember a time that I didn’t love books and reading. One …

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Posted in Inspiration, Painting

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