#storyberries

[sueclancy]

Flying pigs and being human.

Knowing how you feel, what you think and being able to talk clearly about it is an important skill to cultivate. This is true for everyone and especially true for anyone trying to do anything creative. Creativity comes from a regular habit of observing the world and listening to yourself to your own thoughts and feelings. Creativity comes from trusting your own voice. Creativity comes from…

[eabwriting]

List of all my published work and links to all:

Published Work

- [ ] Turning the Tide (Anthology)

- [ ] North West Cumbria writing competition- Runner up

- [ ] The Harrowing Misadventures of Death (Poetry- Self Published)

- [ ] Schodingers Kittens (Poetry- Self Published)

- [ ] TENTACTIED -( Short story) Shortkidstories.com

- [ ] Our Night, Our Time - (Poem) - Creative Exiles

- [ ] Shell Doubt - (Short Story) - Shortkidstories.com

- [ ] Skobeloff Anthology Ghost Anthology (Short Story)

- [ ] St. Helens Mary’s Market (Poem display)

- [ ] Poetry Anthology- Cut Glass Writers Group

- [ ] Published poem at Incredible Edible

- [ ] Third in St. Helen’s writing competition- Teenage Ninja throw away (Essay)

- [ ] The Holding Tank (Short Story) Hndl Magazine

- [ ] Poetry in Joy - HNDL magazine

- [ ] Upcoming Short Story HNDL

https://www.flipsnack.com/89F7E966AED/hndl-mag-issue-3-joy-

- [ ] Halloween children short story - Bones - (storyberries) Upcoming

- [ ] Self published Short story anthology in works

- [ ] Blog post - Autism in Girls - The Art of Autism

- [ ] Malu Zine

- [ ] Ay Up - Writting Off

-[] Voted Top Story in April 2024 on Vocal - TICK TOCK

[storyberrys]

#storyberrys

[mleighsquickspot]

Instant M'L

TrineDay...

Time marks three

Another in the line of animal spirits come to guide you

Learn now the truth of yourself, your upper character

Know the future of your love within another, a lower character

Seek out affection, be apart of caring for fellow men

Indulge in Independence, your impulses become you

Produce a character of honored loyalty of a protective nature

Stray away from the path that leads to stubborn rebellion

image: The Race for the Chinese Zodiac - Storyberries Kids Bookstore

Let me know what you think and pass the thought along.

[starlibrarian]

Since schools are closed and everyone is at home, we know that life can be crazy right now, (especially when it comes to entertaining the kids!). With that in mind, we've put together a list of electronic resources (separate from our library resources, look for those after this section) to keep them (and you!) busy. We’re in this together, so stay home, stay safe, and stay busy!

Resources for Young Kids:

Storytimes - Storytime Online Bedtime Stories and Poems - Storyberries Storytimes in Sign Language - #OperationASLStorytime

Resources for School-Aged Kids:

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems, daily at 11am MT Books and Brushes for Kids Audible Stories Virtual Museum Tours Storytime from Space Read, Write, and Draw with authors and illustrators Daily Learning Projects Pre-K - Grade 9 Movement and Mindfulness with GoNoodle Just for Kids: A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus Giant List of Authors and Illustrators Doing Video Story Times! Meditation for Kids 4-7 Live Stream Meditation for Kids 8-11 Live Stream TED-Ed Educational Videos Cosmic Kids Yoga

Resources for Teens:

Websites for Teen Writers Livestreamed Concerts Netflix Party How to Hang Out with Your Friends on Zoom Program Interactive Stories and Games with Scratch

Resources for Any Age:

Zoos and Aquariums Live Webcams Wildlife Live Webcams Explore Mars Roald Dahl's Things to do Indoors Resources for Adults: Stream the Metropolitan Opera (schedule is here) Stream the Seattle Symphony Bob Ross Painting Tutorials Free Adult Coloring Pages Yoga With Adriene Stream an Online Workout

Resources for Parents & Caregivers:

Mental Health Resources for Kids and Families STEM Lesson Plans and Activities for PreK - Teens Mystery Science Lesson Plans PBS for Parents: Daily Activities Newsletter Fun Family Dinner Conversation Starters Learning at Home: a huge list of resources from Reading Rockets How to Work from Home with Kids (World Economic Forum) How to Talk with Children about COVID-19 (CDC) Teaching Children about the Coronavirus (Scholastic)

[myhanguljourney]

"My Shadow" by Robert Louis Stevenson

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

I picked a kid’s poem to translate titled My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson and I found it on storyberries.com [check it out, they have very good selection of stories and poems by age and minute lengths]. I’m taking my time to translate the sentences without having to rely on translation sites or app. So, I use a Korean dictionary. I pretty much understand the Korean grammar format, so I shan’t…

[opinionatedmommy]

Free Bedtime Stories

I was desperate to find bedtime stories for my boys since most of their books make noise and keep them hyper and ready to play. Anyway, one night while begging the babies to go to sleep, I googled bedtime stories and came across Story Berries, which is a website that offers free children’s stories. The illustrations are awesome, and the stories are multicultural. My babies fell right to sleep…

[sueclancy]

Flying pigs, pastries and doodlebugs

One pig leads to another it seems. On my email newsletter I shared a flying pig and what inspired it. The finished painting was called “The Plot”. The Plot by Clancy That in turn inspired another pig with wings to appear in my sketchbook. Which then became a painting titled “Higgledy-Piggledy” which I also shared in my email newsletter along with other things not mentioned here because I’m…

[doodlewash]

My name is Sue Clancy and I paint and write to cheer people up, myself included. I live in cool, rainy Washington state, in the Pacific Northwestern United States, where I often cook a comforting Irish Stew. I also like to read books and drink hot coffee.

As long as I can remember I’ve loved to draw. I began a small illustration business as a high school student for extra pocket money. I put myself through art school at the University of Oklahoma by working as a graphic designer. After college I worked as a graphic designer and as a biological illustrator. I also had a short career as a costume designer. Then in the late 1990’s I began working for myself as a full-time artist. Drawing daily has been my life.

Even now most days start with my sketchbook, breakfast and of course, coffee. I sketch in a 5 x 3 inch sketchbook made by Royal Talens using waterproof ink pens made by Micron, Zebra and Tombow. Over the ink drawing I use a Pentel water brush and M. Graham and Holbein gouache colors. My sketchbook is usually held on my knee with my box of pens and palette of colors beside my breakfast and coffee cup. My box of pens and palette stay in my breakfast nook so they’re always near to hand.​

Whenever I read novels or other kinds of material, I’ll hand letter a short phrase that I thought of, or a quote I read, into my sketchbook. Then in the mornings I’ll “free associate” – in that just-woke-up-half-asleep state and come up with a character and actions that may or may not relate to the quote on the page. The words serve as a starting point for my loose breakfast sketch.

​My daily sketching informs the rest of my creative life; my published artist books, my illustrations, my writing and my fine art. After breakfast, I go to my studio, another room in my house, where I have an easel made by David Sorg, and drawers full of papers, boards and other art supplies. In my studio I’ll flesh out some idea I’d had during my morning sketch sessions. I’ll work on several different ideas at a time, moving from one to another as I need to wait for paint to dry, or for a thought to “ripen”.

To give you an example: in my sketchbooks I’d doodled a poem and some animal characters. Later, I began to redraw the animal characters on 8 ply board that I get from my local art gallery frame shop. Over about 9 weeks each weekday I’d illustrate a line in my poem with one animal character that I painted in ink and gouache on board. The work I did on board is much more carefully done than the work in my sketchbooks. As I finished each painting I posted the pet portrait to my Instagram page.

Bit by bit, I created an artist book I titled “Alphapets” by Clancy. This book is now available via Blurb and it is available for free via a children’s book publisher I work with called Storyberries.com. You can see Alphapets by Clancy on Storyberries here, and find other artist books I’ve made for children by doing a search for my name.

I use the term “artist book” to mean a book conceived as an art object. It reveals a story over time and space using a combination of content and art technique in ways that directly involve the viewers participation. Artist books, in my mind, are the ultimate mixed media; combining various artistic methods such as drawing, painting, creative writing and then moving on to digital media, layout, design or even gluing and binding. Artist books are well suited to telling a story, sharing an idea, visually and intimately. I find waterproof ink and gouache excellent media for this process.

In my morning sketchbooks, I’d been working out how to adapt to living in a pandemic; adapting for example the process of finding novels and other books to read while staying at home. Thinking of how to select the next book to read, and so on. Reading books was a running theme in my sketchbook and it carried over into my studio work as a topic of my fine art.

Living in a pandemic has also meant cooking, eating and drinking at home – so that became a topic in my sketchbook and also in my fine art.

All of the fine artwork I’ve produced lately has been about books and food and drink. These are ways we practice coping and good mental health during a pandemic. Reviewing these techniques in my fine art helps me to remember them and it enables me to share with other people.

My main motivation for making art is to stimulate a laugh or at least a smile. So, it suits my sense of fun to, alongside my fine art in a gallery exhibit, include reproductions of my sketchbooks that inspired the fine art.

This year I’m doing three fine art exhibits occurring at the same time period spanning 2 states: at the Aurora Gallery at Burnt Bridge Cellars and at Caplan Art Designs. I’ve titled all of the artwork for all three exhibits “Readings From The Heart” and produced these artist books to go alongside the exhibits in a way that they can be mailed directly to someone in a safe manner.

I hope this has amused you. For more information about my artwork, to watch a project unfold on my blog or for access to all of my artist books please visit the links below!

Sue Clancy ​​​​Blog Instagram Facebook Another Sketchbook: more drawings from the heart  Favorites So Far: a kitchen sketchbook Readings From The Heart 

GUEST ARTIST: "Whimsical Visual Stories" by Sue Clancy - #doodlewash #WorldWatercolorGroup #WorldWatercolorMonth #watercolor #gouache My name is Sue Clancy and I paint and write to cheer people up, myself included. I live in cool, rainy Washington state, in the Pacific Northwestern United States, where I often cook a comforting Irish Stew.

[mariannemanalang-blog-blog]

My name is no longer Marianne.

I am not the person you think I am.

I am not Marianne, the short,happy nice person who thinks for others and not just myself.

I am 10 times cooler now. I want to be a rebel. A bad girl.

Drive without a license. Sometimes. 

Shake my booty without a care. 

Do all these things. But first I  must change my name.

I am no longer Marianne.

I am....

JEANBEANFASHO, FUCKERS!!!!!

[sueclancy]

My #artistbook "We All Count" is on @storyberries now!!! Freely available via this link as an #ebook !!!! https://www.storyberries.com/bedtime-stories-we-all-count-by-sue-clancy-experimental-art-books-counting-books/ P.S. This is now my 20th #childrensbook !! (There's a search bar on Storyberries.com where you can type Sue Clancy to see all 20 of my books!!) #childrensbooks #authorartist #storyberries #countingbook #authorillustrator #bedtimestories #freebooks (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGEMh-pxqD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sueclancy]

Hooray!!! At @storyberries I'm the #author of the month !! Wahoo!!! I'm going to be walking around all day saying "Wow!" Thank you to all of my readers at Storyberries!! I love you too!!! Here's the link for the Storyberries bookstore: https://www.bookstore.storyberries.com/ And the link for all 18 of my #artistbooks at Storyberries: https://www.storyberries.com/?s=Sue+Clancy (Search on Storyberries.com for Sue Clancy) Thank you again dear #readers !!! ❤❤📚❤❤ --- #authorofthemonth #childrensbook #authorartist #authorillustrator #bedtimestories #storyberries #childrensbooks #whimsicalart #illustratedpoetry #booksaboutart (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1kBzcpxkx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sueclancy]

Patchwork Poems and a something

Patchwork Poems and a something

It’s been a tough week. One friend died. Another is on hospice. I’ve also completed two commissions for holiday gifts and delivered them. So my bandwidth for writing this blog barely registers on the scales. Please forgive me. I’m still playing in my sketchbooks I just find it is easier (and soothing) to actually *be* creative than it is to talk *about* being creative. The main thing I want to…

[sueclancy]

Yippee!! Hooray!! My book is out on @storyberries today!!!! Here's the free #ebook - there's an audiobook too I hope you like it I really do!! https://www.storyberries.com/bedtime-stories-clancys-patchwork-poems-seasonal-autumn-childrens-poems/ If you prefer big full color luscious #printedbooks here's a link for that https://www.blurb.com/b/11318282-patchwork-poems #whimsicalart #illustratedpoetry #childrensbook #authorartist #storyberries #bedtimestories #poemsaboutlife #poetry (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck17AyZptQK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sueclancy]

Odditerrarium opens this week and other projects

Odditerrarium opens this week and other projects

My Odditerrarium fine art exhibit opens this Thursday Oct 6 from 6 to 8 pm at Caplan Art Designs! It’s been fun to think so much about what dogs and cats might think about! I hope others are amused too. I’ve enjoyed titling paintings in ways that refer to aspects of mental life. Sometimes, like this painting below, I’ve been rather straightforward. This painting is titled “Intellect”. Here’s a…

[sueclancy]

I made the top 10 on @storyberries for books with humor and heart!! Wahoo!! 👇👇👇👇 https://www.storyberries.com/poems-for-kids-patch-la-belle-childrens-poetry/ #whimsicalart #authorartist #authorillustrator #childrensbook #poetry (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Crgs5Myv5o6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=