Read this book!

I highly recommend the book STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin Kleon. It's so simple. You can read it in an hour or maybe two and it's just full of advice. Great stuff like...nothing is original...start copying...fake it 'til you make it...and much, much more. It has given me a lot to think about. I think you'll enjoy it to.

I was going to try to take notes and started copying every other sentence, so I'm just going to buy a copy for myself. That way I can reference it all the time! It's that good! You will want to reference it all the time!

Or maybe I'll buy two and cover the walls of my studio with the pages of this book.

Grown Up Kind of Pretty

No. 228

6 1/4″ x 4 11/16″

acrylic on Canson Acrylc acid free paper

©2013 Heather Hingst Bennett

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Just finished reading A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson. Other books finished recently are Knit Two by Kate Jacobs and The Shadow Queen by Rebecca Dean.

Trying To Reach You

No. 222, 6" x 6" x 3/4", oil on cradled Tung panel, ©2013 Heather Hingst Bennett

The little cutie tangerines are trying to get the attention of the stately eggplant.

I've been reading quite a few books lately. The last 3 were Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann, The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan, and The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. I highly recommend all three!

no. 035 - "slices"

© 2010 Heather Hingst Bennett

“Slices"

8″ x 8"

oil on paper

Some orange slices to go with the lemon wedges.

Happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there!

bedtime stories

Most nights I have to do a little reading before I can go to sleep. I just finished "The Brightest Star In the Sky" by Marian Keyes. I would highly recommend it. It's a very entertaining story with many interesting characters hooking up with each other and then breaking up with each other. There's a little "voice" throughout the book that's looking for something and that's all I'm going to say, because I don't want to ruin it if you decide to read it.

I just realized I have failed to read The Great Gatsby. Seriously, what kind of high school education did I get? So, that's going to be my next book.

Have you read any good books lately?