HeyJaredJ Michael Gatlin
Artist, writer, maker, appreciator of beauty wherever it can be found. These days I’m drawing and painting daily, and doing a little kintsugi mending on the side. Recent artwork can be viewed and purchased at https://www.jmichaelgatlin.com
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On being a minimalist maximalist (opens the original)
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One Small Corner of my Studio (opens the original)
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As I was sitting quietly the other morning, with the sun just beginning to lighten the sky, and the whole household still quietly asleep, I noticed this little corner of my bookcase<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1891" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oL_f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimag
This Week’s Letter from the Studio (opens the original)
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First Place!One of my paintings was given a First Place award last week in the Colorado Watercolor Society’s annual theme show, entitled, Casting Shadows, by the juror, Dan Marshall. How exciting is that‽ <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1831" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ROB-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%
The Weight of a Life (opens the original)
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It may seem strange, but that's how it happens from time to time; the objects laying around my studio seem to migrate towards one another, asking to be included in the same painting. How do these inanimate objects migrate, you ask? My current studio is a smaller space (an average bedroom in an average house), and whenever I need to change tasks, like moving from working on a painting to matting and framing a few pieces; I've got to rearrange the space.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
A Couple of Thoughts on the Artificiality of it all (opens the original)
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