I have to thank the blogger at Ragtag Magpie for their blog post yesterday recommending Felix Scheinberger’s books on watercolor urban sketching. While it remains difficult to get out to actually look at things outside I was inspired after reading his DARE TO SKETCH (I reviewed this wonderful book for Amazon as well) to pick up a pen and damn the results, just draw. The results good or bad are that I did a drawing of a view of my living room looking towards the sliding porch door. Nothing magnificent but the fact that I did it at all was so very important. Thank you Felix and thank you Ragtag magpie. (Trying to place a link here but it isn’t working. http://ragtagmagpie.com )
Wagner is an award-winning poet, author and artist who wrote WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS (Cavankerry Press, 2009) poems about her life with schizophrenia, and co-author, with her sister, a psychiatrist, of DIVIDED MINDS: TWIN SISTERS AND THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH SCHkIZOPHRENIA, a memoir, which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and won the NAMI Outstanding Literature Award in 2006. It is still in print, and available at Amazon.Wagner second book, a first volume of poetry, is WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS, (2009) which is available at a discount now from Cavankerrypress.org. Her newest book of poetry and art, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (Green Writers Press/Sundog Poetry Center 2017) is also now available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Her work has been published in Tikkun, Midwest Poetry Review, and the New York TImes Sunday Magazine as well as the Hartford Courant and the LA Weekly, among other places. She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2.
Wagner’s art was on display in Connecticut area libraries in 2011 and 2012 and in Vermont, in Brattleboro, in 2016 and 2017. Many pieces are available for sale and charitable donation. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Beautiful colours and a restful feeling.
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This drawing looks peaceful. A lovely cozy nest of a home.
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