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Work and musings from artist and social worker in the Nashville, TN, area.

Author: mwatkinsarts7

Healing Through Art: Overcoming Trauma and Stress

Posted on July 21, 2025 by mwatkinsarts7

“Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence… Read more Healing Through Art: Overcoming Trauma and Stress

My Two Year Painting

Posted on June 10, 2025 by mwatkinsarts7

A few weeks before Christmas of 2021, I decided to start an under-painting on a medium sized square canvas propped… Read more My Two Year Painting

Life as Experience

Posted on May 26, 2025May 26, 2025 by mwatkinsarts7

Making time for my artistic practice can be a challenge as an artist with a full-time job. There are days… Read more Life as Experience

More drawings of the cluttered spaces in my home. More pen and ink drawings from around the house. When I have a hiatus from making art, I always get back at it by drawing. Specially, by making contour drawings. This is a device that helps me “see” better to make compositions for paintings. Cozy still life ink and watercolor sketch for the new year 🥳 A latergram of making some finishing touches before wiring the back to make it show ready. See the finished piece @monthavenarts on November 29th! Excited to announce my work will be featured in the group show @monthavenarts An Artful Christmas! Thanks to the folks that follow me on here. It is much appreciated! All works at the show will be for sale. The show starts on November 15th, with an artist reception on November 29th. Save the date 🎄 Playing around with my new field sketch box. It doesn’t really lend itself to larger sketchbook pages, but I’m looking forward to continue to experiment with different paper and subjects. A bit of sparkle ✨ makes everything better 🌹 Revisited my figure drawing roots this weekend. These were fun sketches consisting of general charcoal studies from imagination of the figure and quick drawings from photographs. My favorite is the side profile of Elizabeth Taylor from the Canned Film Festival in 1957. Found this while cleaning through some drawing paper today. I had been looking for it awhile to put in my shop. I will be adding it soon. This piece was when I was really into abstract landscape at the beginning of last year. It’s amazing how styles and influences change over a period of time.
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