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Always a good day when product samples arrive and I get a new mug to put my watercolor pencils in! (You can buy these designs thru Leanin' Tree)... #birds #doodling #drawing #dreaming #teafly #holiday #inbend #christmas #notecards #gifts #illustration #greetings #greetingcards

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Thor Erickson

Coffee + Art + Friends : Thor Erickson

Thor Erickson Chef • Artist • Butcher • Educator • Leap Taker I look at Art as a process. A lot of people look at Art as the destination or the final product. I look at it as part of the creative process. I don’t hang my paintings up anywhere, but I paint. I don’t sing at any venues, but I do that at home or in musical theatre. That is the joy– the doing.  Artist have this great habit of being…

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Cocktails + Art + Mother

Barbara Lee McKeever Peterson Watercolorist • Brandy Manhattan Expert • My First Art Teacher • My Mom It’s relaxing. Sometimes. Not always. Sometimes, it’s very relaxing. It depends on if you ruin something and can’t fix it, it can get frustrating, especially watercolors. But when you just sketch in a book, with black pen, it is very relaxing. I love Art. I love museums. I love seeing the old…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Stuart Breidenstein

Coffee + Art + Friends : Stuart Breidenstein

Stuart Breidenstein Designer • Beauty Lover • Material Explorer • Creative Problem Solver    My favorite moment is when something finally comes together. You reach that crux and everything falls into place. That’s my favorite moment. I used to experience it with music more, when you add something or take out some ingredient so you have that instant where it comes together and everything falls…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Sweet Pea Cole

Coffee + Art + Friends : Sweet Pea Cole

Sweet Pea Cole Artist • Maker • Gap Chaser • Awesome Idea Generator    My favorite thing about Art? Oh, my gosh. Sometimes, it’s that feeling that you get when you look at something and you can’t believe the talent that it took to make and conceive. I get immediately drawn to that. I return to Art when there is something else there— a story or some sort of magic to it. I don’t know what it is and…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Paula Bullwinkle

Coffee + Art + Friends : Paula Bullwinkle

Paula Bullwinkle Photographer • Painter • Teacher • Learner • Museum Adventurer My favorite thing about Art… I think that’s it I can get lost in a different world. I can experience a whole other thing outside of whatever else is going on in the world. I am the creator in that world. I am the God or Goddess in that world. I am making my own things and its separate even though it’s influenced by…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Mark Ransom

MARK RANSOM Musician • Arts Facilitator • Magic Maker • My First Friend in Bend   The fact that Art is a language that transcends almost everything. Certainly, verbal language. Cultural and Ethnic differences. It transcends our allegiance to different nations, our patriotism. It provides an opportunity— a lot like friendship— to see and really feel what is common to all of us. When we share in…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Jenny Green

Coffee + Art + Friends : Jenny Green

Jenny Green Gallery Owner • Head Cheerleader for Artist Everywhere  My favorite thing about art is that I feel like it makes us all more human. I mean it from a production side and I mean it from an absorbing side. I think the production side is almost obvious. It truly helps people to work things out. I think a lot of artists don’t realize the gift that working their own stuff out gives to…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Cari + Christian Brown

Coffee + Art + Friends : Cari + Christian Brown

Cari Brown + Christian Brown Artists • Stuff Movers • Sameness Destroyers Cari: The one thing that I was thinking about was how I really like the fact that Art is an open door. It’s a doorway into ancient cultures. Or it can be a doorway into the mind or soul of the artist. It’s a doorway into a conversation and you don’t know how far that is going to take you. It’s an entry way to a path. I…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Lloyd McMullen

Coffee + Art + Friends : Lloyd McMullen

LLOYD MCMULLEN Artist • Secret Keeper • Feelings Painter I’ll read something or I’ll see something and that will get me going on a train of thought. It is true that as I am working, it just kind of feeds itself. I don’t get burnt out on doing Art, except when I am working on a show and I have to keep going back upstairs to do a layer, because I work in these multiple layers and they have to dry…

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Coffee + Art + Friends : Carol Sterkopf

Coffee + Art + Friends : Carol Sterkopf

CAROL STERNKOPF Photographer • Spy • Expert Babysitter • Happy Traveler   My husband’s gone this week, helping his parents. And so is my daughter. And somebody called and said “Are you bored? Are you lonely? Do you want to do something?” I texted back, “I’ve never been lonely in my life.” It was weird to tell someone that. I didn’t want to say I was busy, so I just told her the truth. I’ve never…

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Coffee + Art + Friends

Coffee + Art + Friends

KRISTIN BROUMAS + MICHAEL LISH Designers • Doers • Adventurists   Kristin: I like that Art is a different way to communicate and it’s a different language. And because it is a different language you can communicate in a different way than than through writing or through speech or even through eye contact. It’s unique, because it is so different in terms of how you communicate what that other side…

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Coffee + Art + Friends

Coffee + Art + Friends

RENÉ MITCHELL Art Discoverer • Art Lover • Art Supporter • Artist I believe many people are artists even if they are not painting or sculpting or drawing or writing. I look at artists as people who enjoy art and appreciate art and who are creative thinkers. What I love most about Art, is for those people who can be around something and can feel something so deeply inside of them that they are…

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Coffee + Art + Friends

Coffee + Art + Friends

STEVE TAGUE Photographer • Creative Technician • Master of Light   One of the things I see in Art is the individuality and the means to express yourself. Everybody has their own interpretation of what they’re doing and their meaning behind it. You can walk into an Art show, a photo gallery— I just recently did this at First Friday- and people are standing around talking about a particular photo…

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Coffee + Art + Friends

Coffee + Art + Friends

ABOUT THIS. I turned 41 this year. And just in time, too. The existential crisis that has been the last two years of my life was getting boring. “Forty-one-derful” is what my friends have dubbed it. I made it over the hump. Again. And there will be plenty of humps coming, but right now, it’s nice to coast on happiness. Part of that is my friends and the world I am circling in these days. Sharing…

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