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Why Draw from Life?
Three Men Talking in Bolivian Airport 5"x8" pen on paper You are Not a Cyclops. I guess you didn’t need to be told that, but...
Joel Klepac
Feb 33 min read
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“Can anyone be an artist?”
When faced with studio time, I am often both excited and terrified. Much of the terror comes back to what it might mean to be an artist....
Joel Klepac
Apr 12, 20224 min read
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Auxier Ridge Trail- Red River Gorge
Recent drawing from a hike on the Auxier Trail in the Red River Gorge. I recently finished Wendell Berry's book on the gorge quoted...
Joel Klepac
Mar 24, 20221 min read
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The Force of the Waterdrop
" It has the force of the waterdrop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a...
Joel Klepac
Feb 12, 20221 min read
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"Just Keep Making Stuff"
“I no longer ask whether and how long my works will outlast me,” Matisse told Gotthard Jedlicka, who visited him in his hotel room in...
Joel Klepac
Feb 7, 20222 min read
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What is Encaustic Painting?
Encaustic Painting has a long history going back to the Egyptian Faiyum portraits. Painted by combining colored pigments with beeswax...
Joel Klepac
Feb 3, 20222 min read
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Science and Beauty
"The true definition of science is this; to study the beauty of the world" Simone Weil p258 The Need for Roots
Joel Klepac
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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The Miraculous is Not Extraordinary
“The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of...
Joel Klepac
Jan 28, 20221 min read
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In the mystical moist night-air
A Larger View Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me When I was...
Joel Klepac
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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"An impressive sun shines on us all"
"...he may have been too dazzled by the great light of his experiences to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all. Perhaps that...
Joel Klepac
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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The Magic of Art
Peering into the balcony for some time, I sat with the window open with my 10 by 10 sketchbook on my lap. I fell in love with the...
Joel Klepac
Jan 27, 20221 min read
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