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Jana Botkin's Blog

Posting 5 days a week about the realities of earning a living as an artist in Tulare County, California's fly-over country.

Three Failures and Two Not-Failures

A pie. About 40 years ago, I had a summer job as a baker, and the place was

Long Distance Oil Painting Commission

Some friends in real estate in a distant place have occasionally asked me to paint something for a

The Hardest Part About Being an Artist (accompanied by a random selection of pencil drawings)

Anyone want to guess? Guesses Maybe you are thinking that it is difficult to paint according to people’s

Other People’s Books

Because I have been helping people get their books printed but am not selling them myself, it is

Mural Dedicated

It was called an unveiling, but it was really a dedication, a symbolic presentation to the town of

MURAL “UNVEILING” TODAY

In case you are curious, this is some of the area around Ivanhoe. I really love it there,

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