Theresa Anacker Wohlers

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Paint to Pencil

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Decision time. Always a little apprehensive and excited when time comes to decide to set down my paint brushes and pick up my color pencils to finish a piece. I love the combination but often find it tricky to know the exact switch over time, and perhaps it's not as cut and dried as I sometimes fear it to be. Working on some finished pieces for dummies and preparing a piece for the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest Conference. I'm excited to learn new things and reconnect with old friends. Here's … [Read more...] about Paint to Pencil

Entering #50PreciousWords

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Vivian Kirkfield's yearly contest inspires frugalness with words. https://viviankirkfield.com/2024/03/02/the-50preciouswords-2024-international-writing-contest-is-open/comment-page-13/#comment-280875 I thought these old sketches went well with my submission. One done many years ago when my girls were young. The other done in my college days, of dorm chums Cindy and Kris. We need friends through out our lives. … [Read more...] about Entering #50PreciousWords

Discover Your Character

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Looking over your shoulder. Look over your manuscript, your sketches, or even your shoulder and you may discover your character. The character of your story that is. Character is all around you. In people, animals, sometimes even in the objects around you and the spaces between them. Sounds strange, I know, but I'll share a drawing sometime of a character I saw in the combination of a tree and it's surrounding spaces. Today's shared drawing is of a secondary character whom I thought was … [Read more...] about Discover Your Character

Laughing is good for your health.

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Don't however, share humor with a dragon. I always feel wonderful after a good laugh. It doesn't take much to make me laugh. Slapstick works, unless it's way over the top, or overused. I'm a sucker for goofy faces. Ironical humor sometimes goes over my head. But whatever the variety, I never want people to stop trying to make me laugh. I think it's the key to a long life. My dad was always laughing and being goofy, and he lived to be 95. I think one of the other reasons he, his sister, … [Read more...] about Laughing is good for your health.