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by Barbara Hartsook on January 15, 2010 · 12 comments
I’m not very good at naming things. I agonize over headlines and story titles, anything that must be told quickly and completely. I love words, you see. They tell pictures… Even giving title to a painting challenges me — I guess because I want the viewer to relate visually and emotionally and create their own [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on June 4, 2009 · 12 comments
I was recently asked, When is the art done? And I gave some silly response that had nothing to do with the question. Maybe if she’d asked, Is the art ever done? I might have answered like this: No. It’s never done. Not really. Not if the artist uses pigments to tell a story and [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on April 28, 2009 · 17 comments
Other than as a way of earning a living, what drives an artist, writer, musician — any creative person — to do what they love doing? Why does an artist paint? Or a writer write? I know there are many reasons — all as unique as the person(s) behind the art — but here are [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on April 6, 2009 · 16 comments
We’re in the second week of local high school tack meets in Northern Ohio, and it’s snowing on the violets. If I go to my grandkids’ meet tomorrow, I’ll put on a down vest and gloves. I’ll have my BlackBerry to take snapshots, jot notes to myself, maybe voice-record a thought or two. Oh, and [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on April 3, 2009 · 12 comments
I’ve found a new blog, Sources of Insight, written by J.D. Meier. This morning he asked what our metaphors for life are. How do we approach it, work with it? Within what context? How do I play life? You think that’s easy to answer? It wasn’t for me… …Not until I poured a fresh cup [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on February 5, 2009 · 18 comments
Stories have always inspired me. Perhaps because I was raised with them, in one art form or another… When I was a young girl, our family often took Sunday drives through the country-side, with the hoped-for goal of buying ice cream cones. A favorite trip was to a small college town twenty miles due west [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on October 5, 2008 · 11 comments
My best people paintings come from photos that suggest a story to me. Nothing spectacular. Usually not posed, and with no special lighting. Even photos taken on a grey day with little color can tell a story so poignant it begs to be painted. I found such a photo two years ago among my daughter’s [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on September 13, 2008 · 9 comments
One teacher, the kind of teacher we hope our kids and their kids can have at least once in their classrooms, writes a blog called Teacher Time. She paints such wonderful stories with her words, her poetry. Stories that move in the mind. Like paintings that trigger a memory, we can say Yes! I’ve been [...]
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by Barbara Hartsook on June 21, 2008 · 39 comments
An old crockery pot lay against a crooked stone wall. Dusty and hot in the sun. Chipped just a tiny piece in the back. I nudged it with my toe, and while I knocked loose part of the stone behind it, nothing crawled out, so I considered it safe to pick up. I blew off [...]
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