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Making the Moonlit Traveler by Helga Thomson

Moonlit Traveler is from a series of prints titled “Chronicles and The Garden of Earthly Delights.” After all, only in the freedom and adventurousness of a moonlit evening would anyone dare to ride on a naked fish with a doggie’s face. ...

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The Body as Concept and Constant by Judy Byron

As 2011 begins, I find myself re-visiting some professional pleasures of 2010 and realizing that this all seems very far away from being the girl who was raised to marry her boss and clean house.  Growing up in a home where girls didn’t go to college, I catapulted myself out of my family and into adult life as a drama major immersed in the philosophy of Stanislavski and Method Acting.  While in college I re ...

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Love and Death at the NIH by Michele Banks

I first started experimenting with watercolor about 10 years ago, and from the beginning got into “wet in wet technique.”  To paint “wet in wet” you paint a base color and then add other colors to it while it’s still wet.  This allows the different colors to bleed into each other, making interesting patterns. People who saw my wet-in-wet work at shows kept mentioning how much it looked like cells under a mi ...

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Eye Level Blog – Viewer Responses to Norman Rockwell

“The comments have enabled us to hear back from viewers, making the experience a two-way street. As you might have expected, Rockwell struck a chord with many visitors who found themselves drawn into his images and world, and perhaps sharing a Rockwell moment of their own.” ...

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Paint and Plaster – Washington DC Artists

“My wife Rania and I have, over the last few years, been trying to collect works of DC area artists. We're pretty committed to promoting and supporting local art and we have a lot of great friends that happen to be great artists.” ...

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DC Sketchers on East City Art

East City Art is carrying a new occasional feature by Kent Gay. An excerpt from the post: "DC Sketcher’s is a new feature of East City Art written by contributor Kent Gay who teaches a new class at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop called DC Sketchers. Over the course of the next few weeks, DC Sketchers will record the places, people and happenings of the DC area. DC Sketchers visited the National Gallery of A ...

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