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Posted by Deb Beroset in Artsy, Featured Articles on 04 30th, 2010 | 4 Comments

Eccentric Heaven: Painting with Poetic License

Eccentric Heaven: Painting with Poetic License
Last weekend I had the best time creating a piece based on a friend’s new poem.  If you’ve never used a great piece of writing as a springboard for your art, you should try it.  It has you go beyond your usual subject matter, directions, even media, as you allow yourself to be led down a...
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Posted by Deb Beroset in Featured Articles, Gallery on 03 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Spooning All Night: A Mixed-Media Love Story

Spooning All Night: A Mixed-Media Love Story
What can I say, things got a little out of hand. I’d had no intention of getting caught up in anything serious that night, but you know how it goes.  Something catches your eye, sparks your interest.  You toy with new possibilities. Flirt a bit, even. Nothing wrong with that. But I lost my head...
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Posted by Deb Beroset in Featured Articles, Gallery on 03 17th, 2010 | 8 Comments

Feasting on Passion: Love, Food and M.F.K. Fisher, Woman of Appetites

Feasting on Passion: Love, Food and M.F.K. Fisher, Woman of Appetites
  “Food is what she wrote about, although to leave it at that is reductionist in the extreme. What she really wrote about was the passion, the importance of living boldly instead of cautiously; oh, what scorn she had for timid eaters, timid lovers, people who took timid stands, or none at all, on...
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Posted by Deb Beroset in Featured Articles, Ramblings on 11 24th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Scribble Singing

Scribble Singing
Scribble singing:  An ode to transitory thrills, ephemeral beauty and the fleeting nature of life I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’m a little prone to wanting to hang onto things as they are. That might come as a surprise to some who know me.  “You?” I can imagine them saying, hands on...
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Posted by Deb Beroset in Featured Articles, Ramblings on 11 24th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Coco Before Chanel: The Top 10 Zesty Artista Takeaways

Coco Before Chanel: The Top 10 Zesty Artista Takeaways
Have you seen Coco Before Chanel yet? I finally got my chance this week, happy as a clam at high tide in the south of France at the prospect of going to a movie with one of my daughters, and even more delighted to be doing so in a theatre that serves vinho verde. I loved Audrey Tautou in Amelie, figured...
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Posted by Deb Beroset in Featured Articles, Ramblings on 11 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Time to Get Your Zesty On: The Power of Committing

Time to Get Your Zesty On: The Power of Committing
O, the dithering. The wondering. The choir in my head singing yeah-buts and what-ifs in four-part harmony.  Shall I hum a few bars for you?  I’ll bet you know it:  “Don’t have enough time for this…Don’t have enough money…Don’t have it all figured out…My ideas are crummy….” And on it...
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