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Four Recent Caricature Gigs Set to Music!

September 19, 2022
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Live Art Event Photos

This audio-video shows photos from my most recent caricature gigs! When I am at events I enjoy the little conversations I have with each person I draw. I remember little snippets of things they tell me about themselves as I ask questions in order to listen and get them to engage with me while I try to quickly capture them. What I may ask in general depends on the event. At the Jefferson College event the most obvious questions to...

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Seeing, Immediacy, Watercolor and Life…

September 18, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments

Recently I painted a portrait from the last photo taken of a friend’s father, drinking his coffee. I saw the image shared online last summer and was immediately struck with the desire to paint from this image, for a number of reasons ranging from care and sympathy (this photo had accompanied some sharing about her father’s recent death), to the immediately recognizable artistic qualities this image presents to me as a painting-worthy photo reference. As I worked on the piece...

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Awakening in Ashes

September 14, 2022
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This morning I count myself among the countless human beings that awake in ashes day-after-day-after-day, and continue in their unseen warzone. They awake to find themselves seemingly drafted and re-drafted day-after-day-after-day in some internal warzone that is well-grounded in external circumstances – and to some extent in the actions of other people. People watch from afar, yet only a few are able to bring us water like “good old grinnin’, gruntin’ Gunga Din…” Not that they wouldn’t bring us water...

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What Does it Mean to ‘Never Forget’

September 11, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Like most citizens of the United States, I remember where I was and what I was doing when I got news that we were under attack on September 11, 2001. They say history is written by the victors (or seeming victors) and there’s so much truth in this. Narratives and story lines. While collectively we Americans (and many who unite the Bible with the flag) speak to others of forgiving people and just letting go, at the same time on...

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Maybe I’m a Paranoid Schizophrenic! Geez Louise…I Should Have Pondered This Possibility More Than a Split/Second!

September 11, 2022
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Hey! Is there any money in that?! What’s the resume and where do I sign up? (pauses to listen)Voice says: Show up at the Louvre, tell them you are Van Gogh while at the same time, get your stuff into the Google. That is how you sign up, and…um…make some money at it too! (pauses to respond)Me and Me: Geez Louise…I feel conflicted over this. Part of me wants to do this but the other part doesn’t want to impersonate...

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Magic at the Moonstone Manor

September 9, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments, Live Art Event Photos

Lisa and Jon Adams were married at the Moonstone Manor mansion and gardens on June 18, 2022 – such a beautiful and magical wedding venue located in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. I was honored and delighted for the entirety of my experience with this couple, the mother-of-the-bride in particular, and other family members and guests I had the privilege and opportunity to interact with during the event itself. I am always grateful for each significant commission I now choose whether to accept...

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An Arsenal of Butterfly Wings

September 9, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Be Thou My Vision. The early Church responding to adversities. The Butterfly Effect. What do all three of these things have in common? Yesterday, I was listening to Be Thou My Vision. I thought about some things. I thought about spiritual battles. I wrestled with navigating proper response, not simply reaction. I thought about Jesus’ call to non-violence…I thought about His silences…and I thought about His speaking. I thought about the book of Ecclesiastes…a time to be silent and a...

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Does God Want Our Empathy?

September 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Thoughts on the Book of Job, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

From the onset of this expression, I want to make it clear that these are simply my own pondering thoughts this morning. While anyone can likely make some case for something, somehow, from Scripture, I hope that I will not attempt to do that. (I hope). But likely, I will attempt to, possibly in my very next paragraphs…Because it is all subject to many understandings and in particular, some might press the point of theological integrity (by integrity, I mean,...

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While My Enemies Watch (Feeding Sheep During Darkness)

August 30, 2022
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Personal Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I continue to be spiritually horrified by the nature and roots of what I discern as nothing short of demonically-fueled spiritual personal assaults to my own self and faith. The most recent flaming arrow (surely prompted by Satan himself) arrived in my email inbox at 4:10 pm this afternoon. Menacing words not only today but in increasing form, format and progression involve mockery of my faith, my personal journey, slander of my character and so much more. These weaponized words...

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When They Need For Me to Not Need

August 22, 2022
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Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

There was a time in my young life when I believed that being needed by someone equated with agape love. I believed – and whole-heartedly enough to commit my entire human life and future into the the human hands of a person in deep need – that giving oneself unconditionally was the pathway to love. Perhaps I got what I deserved. Because, like most humans who give, we hope for some type of reciprocation. And desire for reciprocation, requires others...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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