Author: Ingrid Murray
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These Past Months
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The summer solstice fell on June 21st this year. Then the midway point of 2023 passed, and I finished James’ Clear‘s Atomic Habits a few weeks later. All of this has culminated in a pressing need to take a moment to pause, be present, and ask myself: How are things…
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ICAD 2023
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This year for the Index Card a Day (ICAD) challenge, hosted by Tammy Garcia of Daisy Yellow, I decided to step way outside my comfort zone and tackle something I’ve always been interested in exploring: portraits. The only index cards I had on hand were just 2×3″ (5×7.6 cm). I…
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Messy May 2023
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Over the weekend I took part in a Creative Hour conversation with Caylee Grey, Meg of Meg Journals, Claudette Hasenjager and more than 100 other art journalers. Caylee is the founder of Get Messy, and Claudette, Meg, and I are three of thirty artists leading this year’s Messy May, a…
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Pinch Me
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This morning, six weeks after moving to Germany — and after years of wanting this to be my reality — I marveled that I’m here. This happened. My husband and I came back a few days ago from a trip to see his family in Tunisia; though we saw ancient…
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Why abstract art?
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I admire photorealism: it takes a huge amount of patience and technical skill to represents external reality well. What I love about abstract art, though, is the conveying of emotion, experience, thought, and existence through form, color, movement, texture, and composition. It represents internal reality. When I create my work,…