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Maery Rose is a Minnesota writer whose short stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Letters I’ll Never Send: An Anthology, Allium, and 101 Words among others. She was also a recipient of a Loft mentorship in Creative Nonfiction.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’m hav

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’m having another one of those “The world confuses me and I don’t know what I’m doing and all this thinking is wearing me out” life moments. But I am drawing still, and now I’m trying to learn how to watercolor paint and understand color theory so I have a prayer of actually mixing the color I want. So far, there’s still a lot of “that’s not the color I was going for” results. Today’s painting of an image of Lauryn Hill doesn’t do her justice but I was happy with how it turned out.

Link for my latest blog post on life drawing is in

Link for my latest blog post on life drawing is in my bio. I’ve learned a few things during my first two weeks of drawing living beings. 1.) My subjects are very antsy and uncooperative. 2.) I need to learn to draw faster—getting the basic form quickly. 3.) It helps to learn a little about animal anatomy—bones and muscles and what areas to specifically notice. 4.) Sometimes it’s best to really look at what I want to draw without drawing it. Like the wood ducks that showed up this week. They were too beautiful to miss even a moment of studying their feather patterns.

I’m trying something new—watercolor. And you k

I’m trying something new—watercolor. And you know how such adventures often begin. Clumsily. I wish I knew more about water control, blending colors, and all things watercolor technique. But if I wait until I know all things, I’ll never get started. So here I go… Honestly, I do like the dog. I took a photo of the sketch before I painted to see the difference.

Turkey parade passing my office window. The girls

Turkey parade passing my office window. The girls sometimes come to the window and peck to come in. I think they want the plant on the windowsill.

New blog post about drawing, nature journaling, an

New blog post about drawing, nature journaling, and finding a balance between what you can do versus what you want to do. Link in my bio. You’ll find a recording of the blog post if you follow the link as well if you’d rather listen to my lovely voice.

Trying some new things with drawing. Some work. So

Trying some new things with drawing. Some work. Some don’t. Keep trying.

Outside my office window this morning – 3 toms and

Outside my office window this morning - 3 toms and a number of hens. Unfortunately the audio picked up my wall clock and heater but you can hear the turkeys as well.

These are terrible photos, but they're all I could

These are terrible photos, but they're all I could manage to capture of what I think is a barred owl and a cooper hawk that visited our pond and pine tree.

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