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Jul 27

The business side of friendship…

View of Skipper's Dock where we had lunch and docked the boat. It was a bumpy ride over, but FUN!

Dear Friends, We sit on Laura’s back porch looking over our To-Do list and wishing we had just one more day to do it all.  We seem to always have more ideas than we do time.  Really, our favorite moments on visits like these are when we are in the studio creating artwork and dreaming up our next collaborative project.  The business of selling our work, marketing what we do, making contacts for teaching and speaking engagements can really bog us down.  We needed to remind ourselves today on the ride back from Laura’s studio that the business side is only a small piece to this important work we are doing together.  Gently taking care of the wonderful friendship we have fostered over the past four years is our primary concern.  Our friendship is what has allowed us to come this far in our work and continues to inspire us to continue pushing our work to be better.  We want to not only be better artists, but better people having known one another.

We are all lucky if we find one true friend in this life time.  We are charting unknown territory as we travel along this road to making our work into a business and want to thank you all for coming along with us.

Shells and rocks Tina collected while we were at the beach at Pine Island

We have many posts to come in the next few weeks about all the business decisions, creative jumps, celebrations of completed work, and projects planned for this coming year.  For now we will leave you with some pictures of our “play” time while in Connecticut.

Two Friends.

Two Artists.

Two Entrepreneurs.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this  meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin

Cheers!

Tina & Laura

Here we are getting ready to go shopping in the Borough after a lovely lunch

Studio work -> Tina working on our last page to the Book Exchange

Laura's turn to work on the Book Exchange...It is now complete and we will share more soon.

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Apr 01

The Diversity of an art show

If you look closely you can see the sweet & lovely Lily in the the window, anxiously waiting to see you. How cute is she?

Hi Tina & friends~

I had the most DELIGHTFUL day at the Cate Charles Gallery helping to hang the Stonington Printmaker’s Society Show in the Stonington Borough. What a diverse array of creativity happening there! My eyes have been completely opened to all the different processes of prints there are. I am not familiar with all of the artists in the show but have been an admirer of Carol Dunn’s work for a long time. Her website is filled with a wealth of  information as she is generous sharing her many printmaking processes.  Some of my favorites are her acrylic skins and polaroid emulsion lifts. Which are your favorites? Are there any printmaker’s you admire? I would love it if you shared them with me! Thank you my friends!

love, Laura

p.s. Don’t forget about the show’s OPENING on Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 5-8:00 pm. Lots of creativity, merriment & joyful celebration! Would love to see you there!

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