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Low water adventures

10/29/2022

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I'd seen a local photographer post about low water at McKellar Lake. Memphis is in a historic drought, and it's visually interesting. We'd stopped at Tunica River Park to see the levels there on our way down to Clarksdale. Friday we went to Martin Luther King, Jr. riverside park and checked out the marina. Everything was crazy low. I hung out and sketched a while and let others climb around more. Always my go to.
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Day trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi

10/27/2022

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I took a cool day trip from Memphis down to the blues town of Clarksdale yesterday. It's very sketchable, and I could definitely spend more time there. I did my Inktober sketch at the edge of a cotton field on the way down and just one sketch of the Greyhound station there, but it would be fun to go back and do more for sure. Scroll down for some photos of the town.
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Radio interview

10/25/2022

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Darel Snodgrass kindly had me on the air yesterday at WKNO to talk about the Memphis hanging of my Hints of Gladness show and my first ever public art for Elmwood Cemetery.
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Happy daily life

10/24/2022

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I'm not managing to sketch every day with a house full of guests lately, but I do enjoy the reminder by inktober to pull out my pen and brush pen during my daily rounds. So here are two Overton Park sketches and one Henry sketch. Both a dog and a dog walk are part of my ongoing daily happiness and well worth celebrating in my sketchbook.
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More Inktober

10/15/2022

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Henry and I have been wandering around and doing some sketches and enjoying Inktober. Last night was an outdoor performance of Macbeth by the Tennessee Shakespeare Company. I mostly just enjoyed and watched, but I did do one early sketch as they were getting going. I'm also just sketching Henry a ton. A black and white dog is MADE for Inktober.
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Favorite places

10/12/2022

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I've been visiting some of my very favorite spots lately, and Inktober has given me an added nudge to sketch while I was making the rounds. I took some art to the Dixon sale (it's ALWAYS an honor to get to hang work on their walls), and I sketched both the Rodin out front and my favorite statue Circe. The next day I was having chai at Cafe Eclectic on the deck on a lovely day and took time to do a quick sketch there too.

Finally I did a flying trip to St. Louis and Tower Grove Park. I'd hoped to go for the whole weekend, but the wheels fell off the bus last week, so I ended up driving up Sunday morning, walking through the lovely Shaw Art Fair, and that evening doing a small book/music/art event with my friend Amanda Doyle, who has just written a huge, gorgeous book about the history of Tower Grove.

Monday I drove home, but I took a walk and did a couple of quick sketches in the park before I left. I'm dying to get back up there and do more work in the park, but my month of October is pretty spoken for, so we'll have to see how the later fall goes weather-wise.
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Inktober starting

10/6/2022

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I got totally behind here doing my first in person fair in 2 1/2 years not long ago. It was the 50th anniversary of the Pink Palace Crafts Fair. I got to sit out in person, see friends, talk art, and see people interact with my book P is for Possum. It's been out in public for almost two years now, but except for a couple of times in the museum store down at WAMA, I haven't see folks looking at it or enjoying it. I loved getting to tell the story of making it (hiding in the forest for the early pandemic with bright colors and a big fat marker and coming out with enough sketches for a book). And I loved watching kids looking at it.

BUT I'm running off this week to a small in-person pop up in St. Louis this Sunday evening, so I'm not going to dig out photos from PP right now. Instead, here are sketches from Urban Earth this past Saturday with the Memphis Urban Sketchers. We had a ball, and it's a visually neat place to roam around. It was also the first day of Inktober, so after my first watercolor sketch, I did a couple of quick ink ones to get the month started off right. I'm sketching almost daily, so at some point I'll scan more in to show here. But I have a house guest for the month and am also taking some vacation time, so this month especially I'm going to give myself some grace.
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