Keep Trying

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, I’d ordered an EZRest mahl stick from Amazon/Jerry’s Artorama. Well, it arrived the other day, and while it’s a good idea and invention, it wasn’t for me. The wood block on the clamp is pretty big, and it wasn’t easy to attach it anywhere on my easel. When we got it on there temporarily, the stick/arm kinda wiggles and has enough give to touch the painting, defeating the whole purpose of resting your hand on it. I’m returning it. 

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Reject

Well, I should have known better than to get my hopes up for Skowhegan. That’s the most challenging place to get into. (More difficult than Harvard!) Maybe I shouldn’t have even applied, but I got my rejection letter on Monday.

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Pricing Art

Pricing your art? Oh jesus, what a subject! This might be the most perplexing… 

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