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    <title>CK Blog</title>
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    <dc:creator>carol@sweetjelly.com</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2010-03-04T21:08:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>ACEO Art Cards 3&#45;4&#45;2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Even though I love love love winter, I think spring is on my mind with the rate and enthusiasm I making bird (art cards) paintings these days. I have also sold a few of these over on ebay which has also been quite an incentive. But don&#8217;t worry, you can also get prints of them over at my redbubble residence too.

	Speaking of spring, this morning when I was taking trip after trip after trip to the curb to leave presents for the recycling and garbage people, I heard several different birds along with a woodpecker in the tree next door and got a little excited about the possibility of green grass and flowers coming within the next two months or so.

	(and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not alone either)

	So along with a new studio podcast I am currently assembling, here are some more things that I have been working on lately. I now feel I have properly reacquainted myself with the watercolor medium over this past month or so, although every piece is a quiet little fight of knowing when to be bold and knowing when to be patient and knowing when to stop before &#8220;mud&#8221; begins to be made and a piece has been officially declared ruined. And when that happens, it gets torn into a million little pieces and thrown away while swearing a lot. And it does happen. More times than I want to admit. If anyone tells you that watercolor is a peaceful sport, they are handing you a big line of BS. It&#8217;s a tricky balancing act. I&#8217;m not saying that the more abstract acrylic pieces I do are &#8220;easier&#8221; per se&#8230;oh wait I think I am. Anyway, enjoy.

	
Scissor&#45;tailed Flycatcher

	
Cerulean Warbler

	
Vermilion Flycatcher

	
Allen&#8217;s Hummingbird]]></description>
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      <title>Goodies from The Capitola 2.14.10 reading</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have some more goodies from yesterday&#8217;s Capitola show. It was a blast as always so thank you to everyone who came out for it! Including my sister. It was super nice to see you there, Cindy.

	Mary, the owner of Crossroads was just super to us and her place has great acoustics not to mention great coffee! Lots of the readers brought brand new written material of their own for the day which was REALLY cool to hear. Lots of great stuff. Goes without saying that I am so happy to be a part of all this.

	The next reading&#8217;s date is still being worked out, as there was a conflict, but I will post it here as soon as it is confirmed.

	Enjoy and hopefully see you at the next one in March.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-02-15T21:11:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Capitola Show: Saturday February 14, 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t think of a better way to celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day than taking in some poetry and music. Come out and join us over at the Crossroads Coffeehouse in Cross Plains, WI for a great afternoon of just that. Hope to see you there!]]></description>
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      <title>ACEO Art Cards 2&#45;10&#45;2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here are a few art cards I am planning on putting up for ebay auction soon. I also may or may not get an Etsy store. People have been asking me about that. Ebay has treated me pretty well in the past regarding these cards, but if you have other opinions, please feel free to leave them in the comments section. I would love to l hear what you have to say. 

	On the cards themselves, I&#8217;m trying to do different series. This of course is the bird series with their Latin scientific names appropriately attached. I also started experimenting with colored collage from my 60&#8217;s/70&#8217;s magazines regarding the leaves. I usually only stick to my 40&#8217;s/50&#8217;s mags for collaging but thought I would try this out. The jury is still out on this process, but I feel I need to give it more of a chance than just two cards before I can officially declare it a disaster which we are all about ready to.The committee that resides inside my head tends to shut things down before its time and it is really hard to sometimes convince them otherwise. But I&#8217;m going to try hard not to fall for their tricks in 2010.

	
Bell&#8217;s Vireo

	
Summer Tanager

	
Eastern Bluebird

	
Dark&#45;eyed &#8220;Oregon&#8221; Junco

	Oh wait, are you worried that my crazy esoteric acrylic collage paintings of sideshow freaks and mermaids have been abandoned for nature, rainbows and woodland creature creations? No. That is absolutely not the case. They are resting right now. And I promise that is not a fancy word for procrastination.

	Watercolor beckons right now and I must answer the call.]]></description>
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      <title>Goodies from last week&#8217;s Capitola show</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hello true&#45;believers! Take a peek at last week&#8217;s Capitola performance over at The Driftless Market in Platteville, WI. As usual, it was a ton of fun. Hope to see you at the next one in Cross Plains February 14th.]]></description>
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      <title>Capitola Show: Saturday January 30, 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This coming weekend, the Capitola troupe is going to be out and about reading and performing for you. This Saturday, January 30th, we&#8217;ll all be at: 

	The Driftless Market
Saturday, January 30, 2010
1:00pm &#8211; 3:30pm
95 West Main St. 
Platteville, WI

	Mark Miskelly and I will be singing a couple tunes together and many readers will be in attendance to read their pieces. Please come out and check us out. It&#8217;s a lot of fun and it&#8217;s free! Hope to see you there.]]></description>
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      <title>Went to a garden party&#8230;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I know. A week in&#45;between blog updates is teetering crazily on not keeping things truly updated at all. But it is better than nothing. Or two weeks or a month in&#45;between, right? And good habits take time to learn. That also means I have to get rid of a bad one in order to adopt a new one. No? Maybe not. I also showed up here with a studio podcast that takes a little time in constructing along with constructing items to actually show &#8220;in&#8221; a podcast, so I feel I should get some gold stars for that at least. The podcasts keep the artistic motivation going in an odd way which is why I do them at all. Well, and the nice feedback I have gotten about them too. That&#8217;s always a strong motivation.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-01-16T18:47:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>In with the new&#8230;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ok. I&#8217;m tired of looking at  that Christmas podcast on this blog now that there&#8217;s a new year here and I&#8217;m sure you are too. Time for an update to say the very least. So happy 2010 everyone! I won&#8217;t lie. I was very happy to see 2009 go away. Sure, there were some lovely parts, but there were also some shitastic moments for sure. The whole decade was one in question come to think of it but I&#8217;ll focus positively on the new one instead. One of my resolutions is to keep this place more updated in general. Not only with words, but with art, music and podcasts regarding such. And who knows maybe even some animation will show up here in 2010. It&#8217;s a goal anyway. Hopefully not a lofty one.

	

	It&#8217;s finally cold and snowy here in Wisconsin, and this my friends is a little salvation for me. I am a winter person mostly. Well, and a spring person too. But there is nothing more depressing to me than a 60&#45;70 degree day in December, January or February which the last decade brought plenty of. So far this one has brought plenty of snow and bone chilling cold. Thank you 2010!

Since the new year, I finally braved the white of my canvases that you may or may not have seen in the last podcast. The white of a canvas or paper can be intimidating sometimes, but I reminded myself that applying at least something on there, even shitty, is a learning experience and needed to move forward. Sorry, but that was the best pep&#45;talk I could give myself lately. At least paint was applied so I guess  the talk sort of worked. Now I need to have a similar talk with myself regarding the new tunes I still have incubating on paper to try to get them into musical form. The intimidated have ruled my roost for far too long lately and 2010 is a brand new year for being brave. It simply has to be.

	I also uploaded a piece that is now finished that I had been working on in previous podcasts entitled &#8220;Freak Show Auditions&#8221;. This may or may not be a continuing series. I haven&#8217;t completely decided yet. Right now I have paintings about mermaids, people in shoes and dramatic people scenes playing out as paintings so it&#8217;s kind of too soon to tell right now if the freaks will have their regular show on canvas yet. And I have been dragging my feet with my ACEO production, but that needs to happen to. So, you know.

	

	We&#8217;re getting ready for another Capitola show at the end of January on the 30th in Platteville, WI at The Driftless Market which has been of course most enjoyable. I believe it will be an early afternoon show so if you are in the area, please come out. Along with our readers, Mark and I are planning new tunes, so should be a lot of fun as always.

	Also full hibernation mode has kicked in here in WI, so at night I have been getting into reading before I go to sleep. For Christmas, Santa generously brought me a ton of Rex Libris comics and books which I absolutely adore, but I&#8217;m saving and savoring them like a squirrel and his nut stash during the winter. It&#8217;s all about a superhero librarian so you can see why I&#8217;m hoarding them. 

	I also got a stack of graphic novels last week that I am pouring through and none of these which I list here have disappointed in any way. I won&#8217;t go into a long dissertation about each of them, but just a tidbit under each pic of why I dug them. This may become a weekly feature here. Not sure about that, and I already listed some possibly lofty goals for this blog already.

	
Creepy and quiet and unresolved at the end. Love, love, loved it.

	
Again, creepy and quiet in a David Lynch Eraserhead way. Again. Loved it.

	
Not so much my preferred art style, but the plot, scene building and characters were very engaging.

	
I&#8217;m still reading this one. But so far, it&#8217;s funny as hell re: subject matter that isn&#8217;t supposed to be so funny. My favorite kind.

	
Art style is happy contrasting greatly to the subject matter inside. Again, my favorite.

	
Loved the art, loved the monkey&#8217;s paw type storyline.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-01-09T20:33:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Happy Holidays!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays &#38; Season&#8217;s Greetings to you all! I made a little holidayish podcast from my studio in honor of the special winter holidays and to close out 2009 properly. In this installment there are vintage finds and art updates and some other unexpected turns and twists. Not really, but it sounds good when I put it that way. At any rate, happy whatever you celebrate and here&#8217;s to a brand new decade!

	Enjoy the picture show.]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-12-24T16:18:00-06:00</dc:date>
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      <title>A Capitola Revue Show and Tell</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[So I thought I would give a little report and a little show &#38; tell regarding The Capitola Revue that took place Saturday night. Many thanks to all who came out to support us and cheer us on! We all had a blast. And many thanks to Carole and Richard (owners of The Green Lantern Studios) for having us and treating us like kings and queens for the evening.

	Also had a really fun week leading up to the show by being asked to hang all the art for the show in Mineral Point. It was really cool to be so involved with it. Mineral Point itself is just a gorgeous little town and has a wonderful energy to it. Plus the drive there from my house I equate to being in the &#8220;Wisconsin Mountains&#8221; (lots of rock croppings and bluffs due to the glacier activity) The town itself is built on a big hill so you can see all the buildings and lights pretty readily. And with all the Christmas decorations up and snow in the air and luminaries up and down the streets, it really felt like something out of a picture book from the 1940&#8217;s.

	Saturday night was gallery night in Mineral Point as it is a little haven for artists and artisans, and the town was hustling and bustling and all abuzz. I love that sort of energy! Lots of people came in from the cold to check out what we were doing during the course of the evening and the energy of it all was just pretty exquisite.

	I put together a little movie of a couple tunes we did through the course of the evening in&#45;between readers.  Mark Miskelly doing a beautiful job on guitar as always. In the last part of the movie, Caleb Mason guest starred with me onstage during the tune &#8220;If It Be Your Will&#8221; (Leonard Cohen). It was kind of a last minute type of thing, but I&#8217;m glad we got to do that together! He read earlier during the evening for the poetry portion, but also has expressed that he would like to do more in the musical realm. The other two tunes you hear here are &#8220;Between Daylight And The Dark&#8221; (lyrics featured in the Capitola by Mary Gauthier) and &#8220;I&#8217;ll Never Be Your Maggie May&#8221; (Suzanne Vega). 

	Enjoy!]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2009-12-08T18:02:00-06:00</dc:date>
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