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Waiting for quiet time to watch you create because I so enjoy watching. But too delighted with your beloved brushes not to comment on how moving I found those old friends of yours. I have a couple that are taped up that I hold dear. I like to think my kids will recognize them - almost as their older siblings

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Liza Donnelly

I use brushes to glaze ceramics and I can relate to all of your brush issues. Thank you for posting these.

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That's an interesting difference, I can imagine!

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Love this and all your videos as I sense you coming out and not a presentation persona.

As to suggestions, I have one. I draw a face every day taken from a Times obituary that strikes me. So, I’d love to see you draw a face. Thanks for asking.

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That is interesting! A different face a day.....

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Loved this clip and the "bleeding" slip... Freudian perhaps?

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hahaha, perhaps!

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Dec 14, 2023Liked by Liza Donnelly

I rather wish I had a craft I pursued with the devotion you have to yours. Trust me, though, I don't have it in me. I admire you that you do.

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Thanks, Chuck! YOu have what you do....

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I’ve left the living room and my husband watching ESPN to lie in the cool darkness of the bedroom, get comfortable and watch this through. It gives me peace to watch as you work, explaining the medium and technique as firms take shape.

Yes it is hard segueing from the outsized power of the Supreme Court,wondering if our daughters (all of them) will have an unwelcome third party sitting in the room with them and their doctor to monitor life decisions of such consequence. Or give a usurper who threatens what we hold dear in our country, the kind of power never meant for an individual to wield in government.

But this helps. A lot.

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I am glad to give you some quiet time. It is so GD stressful right now. The threat from Trump is so real, I keep looking for assurances that it isn't, but I don't believe they are there.

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My equivalent of your well-loved, taped brush is an old paperback copy of David McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback, my favorite biography, taped and worn. I studied it as I was learning to write biography. Thanks for the restful clip, Liza, and for welcoming us into your studio.

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You are welcome. I should read that, if its your favorite!

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