HeyJaredReclaiming Creativity
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August Recap (opens the original)
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I don’t feel any shame for not being a summer person. I don’t like the heat, the glaring light, the humidity, the thunderstorms. I begin to feel rising energy in mid-August, buoyed by the first faint signs that summer is losing its grip. Shortening daylight, yellow leaves falling, the green canopy showing less pristine shades of pure green, squirrels caching with increasing liveliness, flowers going to seed, does introducing their fawns to extended grazing range. In another ten days or so, the d
July Studio Recap (opens the original)
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In retirement, July is my least favorite month. Heat, glare and humidity, and an abundance of mosquitoes, gnats and ticks make me stay indoors. I love watching the morning light burnish the edges of the trees, as I do every season. The soothing green of spring has given way to a duller, stressed look in the woods, the greens are beginning to look like they were mixed with yellow ochre on someone’s palette. I spot yellow leaves here and there. It’s August now, and the turning of the leaves become
When is it OK to Stop Trying? (opens the original)
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I’m done, so done trying to fix this painting. IT was propped up on my relocated watercolor space (more on that later) for several weeks in a not quite finished state. I realized that I was trying to fix it like I would fix something in an opaque medium. This never turns out well for me. I realized that I was in over my head in several ways.I should have planned ahead of time for a mix of hard edges and lost and found edges.I should have swatched more and stayed with simpler mixes. I should have
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