Michaela MacColl

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December 2013 Archive

Archives for December 2013

Cover Reveal!!! Always Emily looks fab!

December 20th, 2013, 3:05 pm

Always Emily is my next book from Chronicle. Here’s the cover — I love it. (and the blurb from Laurie Halse Anderson makes me so happy!)

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Patience is Power!

December 16th, 2013, 1:40 pm

I just read this fascinating article from an art history professor at Harvard. She forces her students to spend hours at a museum looking at a single painting.  She describes how this process forces us to change the way we learn. She illustrates her point with a description of a painting by Copley and demonstrating the levels of complexity in the painting that you only see if you spend the time. Then she walks it back to Copley’s process as a self-taught painter. When he asked for feedback from the folks back in England (he was a Colonial painter) it took a year to get an answer. So his paintings reflect that delay and his process of learning slowly.

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