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The big stretch

May 23, 2009 | maggiebird

elephantSometimes trying to be an artist is a big stretch.

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Watercolor of mother
For the next year, this blog is dedicated to my mother, Barbara.

The bird on this blog

My mother passed away in the last hours of 2016. Sometimes when life hurts too much, I need to write and share. This year, that's what I'm doing. I'm warning you, at least for the foreseeable future, this blog will be about loss and how to deal with it.

If you want happiness, painting tips, and pleasant nattering, visit my website, www.Margaretsloan.com. I promise, there won't be a lot of sadness there.

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What’s new

  • Folding time with the scent of the past
  • Baking bread for my mother
  • Conversations with grief
  • The brave butterfly on the map
  • Cleaning out my mother’s closets

Books I’ve read about grief, losing someone you love, and how to survive loss.

Day dreaming

  • A Frame-maker's Journal
  • Andrea Joseph’s sketchblog
  • Artists of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours
  • Catherine Hyde, Artist
  • Drawing the Motmot
  • Elizabeth LaPrelle
  • Fidelma Massey
  • I married an Irish Farmer
  • Ingrid Dijkers
  • Robin Purcell
  • Teri Windling's Studio
  • The Daybook of Mme. M. Columbia
  • The Hermitage

Good Reads

  • Bohemian Opus
  • Daniel Powers
  • Hungry for Yiddish
  • Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
  • What's blooming

Studying

  • Atelier School of Classical Realism
  • Brush—Paper—Watr
  • Cambridge in Colour
  • Chris Carter – Artist
  • Learning to See – a Journey back to Painting
  • Lines and Colors
  • Portrait Society of America
  • Proko
  • Robert Dance

Working

  • Ancient Artist
  • Roz wound up
  • Stapleton Kearns
  • Without Wax

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All work on this blog is copyrighted by Margaret Sloan. I don't steal from you. Please don't steal from me. If you'd like to use something you see here, please contact me. We can work it out.
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