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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Three Favorite Art Studios

November 27, 2017

I. My art “home away from home” Nearly every week I come to paint with friends at this art studio, …

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Artists & Writers in Their Studios

November 2, 2017

I’ve been collecting images of artist studios and writing spaces as inspiration for creating my own art/writing workspace. Some of …

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Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog

October 2, 2017

  “The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.”  So writes Jacques Lacan, …

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Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing

September 21, 2017

A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …

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“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”

September 10, 2017

This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …

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Naming a Painting, “Like Two Lovers in Conversation”

September 3, 2017

“Warm and rich, rich and warm, which is which?” Like a mantra, these words echo through my mind as I …

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The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux

August 22, 2017

It’s been said that for writers the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t think …

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Playing with Abstracts, Loving the Process

August 13, 2017

I was surprised by how much I love painting abstracts. Just playing with color, design, textures is so freeing and …

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Playing With Mixed Media, Watercolor & Collage

June 26, 2017

As I’ve been experimenting with styles, I’ve been mixing watercolor with collage and ink, and having a lot of fun …

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Dreaming in Blue and Gold

June 1, 2017

I’ve long had a thing about the colors blue and gold, especially in combination. Something about them soothes and excites …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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