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  • The Autumn Colors

    Robert Frost, in his poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” speaks to the transitory nature of fall colors: Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. When I was in…

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  • Portraits in the Style of the Modern Masters

    “ Good artists copy, great artists steal,” Pablo Picasso once said. If we’re going to learn art, we should learn from the masters, and not from ordinary purveyors of paint. In art school, we often copied the old master paintings and drawings to learn their techniques and develop those traditional styles of execution so we…

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  • Rabbit! Rabbit!

    Welcome to October 2021 October comes around every year, but it’s a month full of surprises for the rabbit population. Yes, dear bunny friends, October is the season of leaf excursions, apple dipping (in caramel, no longer in washtubs, due to COVID), and costumes. Ghosts and ghouls roam the streets along with superheroes and princesses,…

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