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Coiffed. Are You?

by rosedeniz December 3, 2011 creativity
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I was 21, a junior in college, and living across the street from the Thai restaurant that gave me and both of my roommates indigestion whenever we ate it (weekly), when I found my first gray. Where were you?

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While my husband was away, I drew this.

by rosedeniz November 28, 2011 drawing
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A story in pictures.

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Sometimes the love…

by rosedeniz November 18, 2011 drawing
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A little testimonial love for a book illustration project.

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Boats on the Sea of Marmara

by rosedeniz October 8, 2010 drawing

Tweet Boats, 2004 Seeing Izmit through new eyes, how the landscape changes at the onset of winter, the last few days of rain hinting at November. Boats on the water. Smoke rising from factories. Mountains foggy in the distance. Drawings that chronicle daily life, where cold laundry whips in the rainy wind. Where that bright […]

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How do you identify your center?

by rosedeniz June 11, 2010 art

Tweet Ferries and mosques, seagulls and bridges. Quintessential imagery of Istanbul.  In drawings and flashes of ideas, many that remain untapped in Jungian shadows, I explore the reasons I am here and not there. I write and make art to ask questions and explore the answers, not to wear the painter’s hat. Different vehicles, same […]

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An opening in Ankara

by rosedeniz June 4, 2010 art

Tweet Photos from my opening in Ankara on May 31, 2010. Photo credits Sera De Vor, one of the most fantastic and enthusiastic people I’ve ever done an interview with. “American artists share their vision of Turkey” in the Hürriyet Daily News June 5-6, 2010. Monica and me with Thomas Leary, Public Affairs Officer at the US Embassy Thanking the US […]

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Process-oriented

by rosedeniz April 14, 2010 drawing

Tweet From 2002-2004, whenever I went into my studio to paint, I read books. I started nearly each and every day with an hour or more of reading and note-taking, checking for new books in our tiny but well-stocked art library. My MFA in Painting thesis had more poetry than painting in it with ‘titles […]

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The Art of Cultivating a Creative Life

by rosedeniz January 18, 2010 art
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Tweet Twenty women sit around long tables pushed together in a corner of a café in Istanbul on a Saturday morning. The clink of coffee cups, the murmur of orders being placed. I pace around a little bit, preparing myself physically and mentally to talk about creativity to this group of professional women that I […]

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Fall Delights

by rosedeniz November 6, 2009 drawing

Tweet Staples at a Midwestern Thanksgiving dinner table? At our house in Wisconsin: turkey basted according to a timing method made by my engineer-father, champagne for the adults to sip while waiting, broccoli/cauliflower and cheese-whiz bake, canned cranberries, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, butter on French bread, and pumpkin pie. For a saucy tale […]

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