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Kerrytown Concert House Gallery :  “MEDITATIONS”
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Kerry Town Concert House Gallery Presents “MEDITATIONS” Solo Exhibition New drawings by : Astrid Muller-Karger OPENING RECEPTION : JANUARY 8, 7-9pm OPEN DAILY 9:30am-5pm, JANUARY 6th – FEBRUARY 1st For info call 734-769-2999 Kerrytown Concert House 415 North Fourth Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan...

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22 North Gallery : Group Exhibition
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22 North Gallery Group Exhibition Five artworks by Astrid Monique Muller-Karger Pictured from left to right: “Meditation XXII / Forget Everything, Remember Everyone”, “Meditation XXI/ A Compulsion : This Is The Place To Go Now”, “Meditation IX / A Question Of Ownership And Free Will”, “Meditation XVIII / Fertile Ground For A Single Organism” “Meditation IX / A Question Of Ownership And Free Will”, “Meditation XVIII / Fertile...

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The Importance
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Sketchbooks aren’t something that artists always share but I share mine in this sketchblog because it may spark new folks to start a sketchbook of their own. If I wasn’t driven to share the fulfillment of drawing for oneself with others I would keep it fiercely private. Its real purpose is only for me. Folks wonder why the drawings in my books span so many styles, subjects, and...

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Flight
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I’ve been going to the Museum of Flight kind of a lot lately. The first time I went a few weeks ago I immediately bought a membership because I knew that I had found one of my precious places. When you find a spot that you instantly have a sense of place in or are doing something you connect to for the first time...

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Samurai Road Trippin’
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This week I took to the road to catch the Samurai Armor exhibit in its last week at the Portland Art Museum or PAM… which makes me giggle and think of it as the Seattle Art Museum (SAM’s) gorgeous amazon of a sister. It puts poor SAM to shame on so many levels. It was a seven hour drawing marathon replete with a traditional...

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Shelved
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I shelved the last sketchbook of 2013 before the New Year hit and here are the drawings that capped off that trooper of a book that I battered and beat over the winter. Its raggedy self can rest all taped up and patched together up on that comfy shelf in the...

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I Can Smell Winter…
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My sketchbook is starting to look like winter too. And I have Edward Hopper wrapped around my brain thanks to an old acquaintance. “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” ~ Edward...

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Final Stretch
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Only eight blank pages left in this fall sketchbook and when you get that close it’s like a marathon runner seeing the finish line. All you want to do at that point is draw everything in sight and every single thought that pops into your skull. You can taste the end and the beginning and it feels like if you don’t finish it fast...

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Meditation Sketches
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Recently I’ve started drawing right after meditating. I’m just getting back into it and always enjoyed where I was, or wasn’t, during meditation. The state that I would carry out of it was pretty rad too. Wanting to see what would come from that, and also to see if I could sustain that feeling longer, I took it to my sketchbook when I would finish....

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Full
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The last of the pages from another used up sketchbook… all but that last page. That one I’m keeping for...

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Cricket’s SunBird
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Friends are always asking me to draw things for them and once in a blue moon I’ll oblige. There isn’t much rhyme or reason to what gets me to agree to do something like this for someone. Mostly it’s if the bug bites me. This time one of my  closest friends, Cricket, asked me to illustrate a Pheonix for him modeled after the one...

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Sunday Sleepy Sunday
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Today, in the park: I drowned myself in caffeine Lusted after boats Stretched inappropriately Passed out like vagrant Read The Sex Lives of Cannibals And...

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New Year, New Sketchbook, New Sketches
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With a new year brings a new sketchbook and new sketches. Finding myself a sketchbook is a painstaking process. Saying that I’m picky is an absurd understatement. Searching for a book with paper that has tooth and character, that has a soft cover but is strongly bound is harder to find than you would think. I couldn’t care less what the cover looks like...

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