Amy Bogard

Amy Bogard

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    • 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

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  • January 1, 2022
  • Antigua Sketch Trip, coronavirus, life, TAOS
  • 0 comments

A Hope-Filled New Year

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."  ~T.S. Eliot "There have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.  And then,…

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  • March 8, 2021
  • coronavirus, life, music, Patreon, sketches
  • Esme Kenney, grief, Sketch
  • 5 comments

Like so many others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxKY_2u3ec The last time we were renovating, we were relatively new to this house, busy with elementary school kids, eager to create a home for them that would grow with…

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  • January 13, 2021
  • getting started, illustration, life, sketchbook, sketches
  • bedside book, characters, creative practice, drawing, fine folk, philomena
  • 4 comments

The Bedside Book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1Ytno7gV0&feature=youtu.be Recently I've participated in some online workshop-gatherings of a sort.  Neither have been "classes" per se but rather more intended as an artistic shot in the arm - a…

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  • January 2, 2021
  • Daily Dog, life
  • 2021, adena, david whyte, embrace, glen helen nature preserve, new year, philomena, start close in, winter hiking
  • 0 comments

The Embrace of a New Year

The new year dawns amidst heavy rains, as if the tears of 2020 continue to overflow.  There is a relief in this new day, this new year, even if in…

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  • December 15, 2020
  • coronavirus, Daily Dog, In the Garden, life
  • covid, Daily Dog, dogs, philomena
  • 6 comments

Mischief and Moxie

We begin a new chapter in recent days.  One filled with the sweetness of a puppy's young breath while haunted and hunted by the pandemic.  The weekend saw us driving…

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  • November 8, 2020
  • activism, life
  • juniper
  • 2 comments

The mess we’re in

"We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust..." ~Albert Camus (via Maria Popova of @brainpickings) Life is messy.  Birth is…

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  • October 29, 2020
  • activism, In the Garden, life, music
  • 7 comments

Just the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maqDWDyuLUo&feature=youtu.be It is pouring rain this morning.  Despite this, I walk a few miles before sitting down to write.   Work at the concertina shop beckons as well - buttons to…

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  • September 3, 2020
  • coronavirus, life, words
  • death, talking about death
  • 2 comments

The U-Bend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRzA4k4nbk&feature=youtu.be It is a gentle, rainy day.  "Soft" as they sometimes call it in Ireland.  This kind of weather might annoy some people, but honestly I like it.  The coloring…

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  • August 17, 2020
  • coronavirus, In the Garden, life, uillean piping, words
  • amaryllis, begonia, bichon frise, billy collins, deer fence, flowers, garden, garlic, hell is real, Journal, mickey dunne, poetry, the genius, tomatoes, traveler's notebook, uilleann pipes
  • 2 comments

Genius Home

It seems an age ago that were in Maine.  Coastal time, cool, crystalline lakes, like a dream. We are now back in our own home, land locked here in our…

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  • July 27, 2020
  • life, Painting, travel
  • art, gouache, hiking, maine, mushrooms, painting, stone, sunset
  • 0 comments

Of interest

" For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself.  He must have been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound contemplation." ~Robert…

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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