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NOTE-TAKING
Small Notions, creative thoughts and key ‘take-aways’ are included in my many pages of my sketchbooks. I was referring back to my figure drawings this morning and was thrilled about the note taking that accompanied the drawing: ‘painting what you see’, ‘a collaboration between you and the paint’, ‘bridges and barriers.’ Moments of lost edges,…
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Connections
“When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.” (Margaret Wheatley) Creating community and making connection, that’s why I teach. The students are amazingly earnest and hard-working, finding their way through the art process and their…
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Sketchbook Lessons
Sketchbook = collecting concept, thoughts, searching for direction on any one given day as an artist. I have countless sketchbooks, dating back to 1985, if not before that date. Reasons for keeping a sketchbook have changed for me over the years. So many lessons and never a regret for keeping them for almost 40 years,…
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Retracing my steps
‘It’s a lot about love and relationships and the memories of the experiences that I’ve had in connecting with people. And so it really felt like a process of retracing my steps, reflecting on those experiences and trying to make some kind of meaning or new language from those memories.’ Jamilia Woods About my travels…
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day by day
‘Day by Day’ I work to create, design, and understand in my art practice. Scattered images around studio display ideas and spontaneous thoughts. Some works indicate a direction and hopefully forward. My sketchbook reinforces a similar process of forward momentum. I love when the pieces pull together to create a ‘masterpiece’. My walls are full.…
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SOUVENIRS
Full Circle of the Senses. Marks on paper, to remember. In italian, there are 3 distinct words: rammantare: with a mind for facts ricordare: with heart for feeling rimembrare: with the body, for physical sensation How lovely to have record of all those aspects of remembering. The power of a sketchbook: full circle of the…
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community + connection
Finding Community + Connection. My recent travels to Civita offered me earnest students and a special place that I realized was nested deep within my heart. My sketchbook offered me a place to mark the those connections and now back in studio I have ‘new eyes’, those seeing differently. I will be posting those insights…
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Working in a series
“We may not know where we are going, but we will know that we will want to be there”.
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Summer Sketching in Seattle
When the sun comes to Seattle, it’s time to get out your sketchbook and get outside.
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ANITA H LEHMANN 