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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Can You Paint a Poem?

April 26, 2017

It’s a question a blogger friend asked one day in response to my comment that I would like to try …

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The Luscious Light of Sorolla’s Paintings

March 29, 2017

It was love at first sight when I discovered the paintings of Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923). Known as “the painter of …

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My Art or My Novel. Which Would You Choose?

March 16, 2017

Someone asked me recently what I loved more, my painting or my writing? Or, she added, is that like trying …

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Still Playing – Still Life and Florals

March 10, 2017

I’m still “studying the masters” and playing with style. Most recently with two contemporary artists. The first is a floral …

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Studying the Masters, Playing with Style

February 26, 2017

Not long after I finished those first three watercolors paintings I shared last week, I was inspired to try to …

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Dare I Share? Paintings in Progress

February 21, 2017

Family and friends have been asking me to show them some of the watercolors I’ve been working on, so I …

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Painting, a New Passion

December 5, 2016

Writing has always been the primary passion in my life, the thing I love most to do and identify with. …

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“I See You But Do You See Me?” – Artist Marc Clamage, Bearing Witness

June 11, 2014

Since my last post, I discovered another artist who refuses to turn away. He bears witness one face at a time by …

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Art and the Mystery in the Midst of Things

March 9, 2014

Art points to something beyond itself, toward “something more,” something that we sense in things and reveal through our pen …

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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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