Amy Bogard

Amy Bogard

  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland
Amy Bogard
  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland

Inspiration

  • July 25, 2022
  • Inspiration, music, Uncategorized
  • 0 comments

A love song

Greetings from Maine.  My home away from home. (I have a few.) There is a yearly gift I offer, to the muses of art and music, to that of friends…

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  • June 20, 2022
  • Inspiration, TAOS, Uncategorized
  • art workshop, creativity, new mexico, taos, travel journal workshop
  • 2 comments

Distilling a beautiful depth

Firstly, To my dear patrons, this post is a "public" post, intended for those who maybe don't read as often, or who may be new to the work and are…

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  • July 22, 2020
  • Inspiration, life, Painting, sketchbook, travel
  • co-working, pen pals, poppy, postcards, sketchbook, traveling artist
  • 2 comments

Weekday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogPlgO7jng By day, my porch-based co-worker Poppy and I work on some sketches and picture post-cards to send along to my trusty pen-pals.  We also sketch.  Crows caw in the…

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  • July 20, 2020
  • coronavirus, Inspiration, Painting, sketches, travel
  • gouache, lena rivo, maine, painting
  • 4 comments

Day 2, in pictures and paint

It's fun to see how others have weathered the isolation in recent months.  Here it's Rumikub.  There have been many games, apparently. Locals remind themselves of what is lovely here,…

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  • April 24, 2020
  • coronavirus, In the Garden, Inspiration
  • David Gray, dervish, Erin lee Gafill, fabian hernancez, kate rusby, nuala kennedy, taos cancellation, the gloaming
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A glorious something else

"A glorious something else awaits." ~Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSECXPItmgQ I sit with the sadness this morning.  Like so many of us in this time of so many griefs…

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  • March 23, 2020
  • Inspiration, life, sketchbook
  • learn to keep a journal, travel journal from home
  • 4 comments

Rambling ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIhpkEkC4c As any of the long time readers among you here already know, much of the focus of my work involves the art of keeping a travel journal.  I am…

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  • March 4, 2020
  • Antigua Sketch Trip, Inspiration, sketchbook, sketches, travel
  • antigua guatemala, carrot people, Sketch, travel, Travel Journal
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Processing carrots

Start with the shape of a carrot.  "ish". Add a "head" to your carrot shape. And then a wee shadow to ground your developing figure in space.... (for the record,…

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  • February 28, 2020
  • Antigua Sketch Trip, Inspiration, sketchbook
  • 0 comments

Una semana mágica

"Deep peace of the running wave to you. Deep peace of the flowing air to you. Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. Deep peace of the shining stars…

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  • December 31, 2019
  • illustration, Inspiration, music, twist of hemp, uillean piping
  • happy new year, illustration, john joe badger, music, series, uillean pipes
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Dawn of a new year ~twisted hemp week 8

It is the dawning of a new year, nay - a NEW DECADE!!!!!  With this comes the courage to try new things, to meet new friends and learn to trust…

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  • December 30, 2019
  • Inspiration, life
  • balancing social media, charlie, fog, happy new year, Henri frederic amiel, ian, social media hiatus, work life balance
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Winding Down

"Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart…

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Amy Bogard

  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland