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Merry Christmas!


Arnie Fenner

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone from all your friends at Muddy Colors! (All paintings by Norman Rockwell, of course.)

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Jamie Windsor on Working Through Low Periods


David Palumbo

December 4, 2024 - Just over a year ago, I wrote a piece on acknowledging when things are bad and moving forward through it.  At that time, I was in the middle of a challenging stretch where clients had gone silent and I was finding it very difficult to find meaning and motivation in my work.  Because I was still in the middle of it, I had a limited perspective on the situation.  Having (thankfully) emerged from that place, I can see how the stress and pressure I was feeling to make work was actually making it far harder to think creatively or find any ideas exciting or interesting, which only amplified my distress.  I did stay busy though, more out of panic than anything, right up until I got knocked out with Covid for most of December, somehow…

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