Jessalyn Claire Studios
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About the Artist

 
 

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If all there was to do was paint… Almost finished works are waiting for me to finish all the not artistic parts of being an artist, so I can come back and do the art part again. I am working on all of the necessary steps to get painting an
Can’t you see? She’s so pretty. I have eyes for scarred and broken things.
And suddenly it was November. 🍂
Hyacinth cyanotype print attempt #475. “Notes: Failed. 30 minutes exposed under UV light. Would have worked if I had flatten all parts as well as set of leaves on right. So close.” I am so lucky to have the opportunity to fail over and o
“We do not have to life the rest of our lives trying to achieve some measure of success we thought was ideal when we were too young to understand who we even were. Our only responsibility is to make decisions for the person we have become.&rdqu
Isn’t she lovely? 🍄
The color-shifting trees look anemic against the grey sky. Drip. Drip. Drip. Rain on the vinyl. Rain on the corrugated plastic. Rain in long drops down the half-fogged window. Soggy. I feel soggy. I’ve been up for so many hours, but time is a h
It’s a puzzling kind of day. Pun intended. Puzzles of the illustrations from my children‘s book are available in multiple sizes. Little Birder book and puzzles are both available in my Etsy shop. Follow the link in my bio or visit www
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” ― Georgia O'Keefe
Go ahead, greet someone. ✉️ Six greeting card designs of original artworks from Little Birder, available in packs of 6 or twelve (two cards per design), will be listed in my Etsy shop soon. 🤙🏼
T.H. White, author best known for The Sword and the Stone, scribbled a short list in his personal journal: “1. Necessity of excelling in order to be loved. 2. Failure to excel. 3. Why did I fail to excel? (Wrong attitude to what I was doing?
Before I expect it, the air turns cold. I hand over my hopes, the plants their blooms — Color’s last hold as grey takes over gold. Trees and I shiver, bare and exposed, given in to the fate of what we cannot control. Reddened branches and
Disclosure: this post is not optimistic. It’s okay. Excerpt from personal writings- I sit overwhelmed at the mountain between me and progress. I see other artists. “Real ones.” I qualify to myself. The quantity of output gives me
My favorite corner of the studio. 🍂🍁🪵🌿🌳
“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.” -Dr. Seuss
I find myself wishing that magnolias bloomed during this season because the large white blooms would be so striking a contrast against the colors of fall. My dark feathered friends also look striking in juxtaposition, and I’m still deeply infa
How well do you respond to failure? For some of us failure is a driving force, either to avoid it at all costs or living under the weight of viewing life through a lens that distorts all things to failure. Have you ever seen a child respond to a m
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Things change quickly.