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Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World
Join the bestselling author of Wild Mind and Writing Down the Bones as she explores a new realm of creativity--the world of color--and offers us an intimate view of how everyday life is transformed into art.
In twelve high-spirited chapters, Natalie introduces us to her family, her artist friends, her New Mexico home, her painting trips to Europe--always focusing on the que...more
In twelve high-spirited chapters, Natalie introduces us to her family, her artist friends, her New Mexico home, her painting trips to Europe--always focusing on the que...more
Paperback, 154 pages
Published
September 2nd 1997
by Bantam
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A The process of becoming a writer through the journey of painting (though I don't like her paintings).
Making the experiences of life into a visual journey.
A color explosion with crooked lines and nice stories.
Loved this
one of my favorite authors and Buddhist friends writes about her life and illustrates it 'in living color'. It's subtitled A Writer Paints Her World.
here is a tiny excerpt to give the flavor "I noticed that the blue of my paints wasn't blue enough to get the intensity of that New Mexico sky. I painted the sky red instead."
Tender stories of family and friends ... the paint of her father is extraordinary
here is a tiny excerpt to give the flavor "I noticed that the blue of my paints wasn't blue enough to get the intensity of that New Mexico sky. I painted the sky red instead."
Tender stories of family and friends ... the paint of her father is extraordinary
Great chance to see Natalie's paintings and to get her larger thoughts on art outside of the focus of writing.
The writer introduces us to her art and her desire to paint.
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Natalie Goldberg lived in Brooklyn until she was six, when her family moved out to Farmingdale, Long Island, where her father owned the bar the Aero Tavern. From a young age, Goldberg was mad for books and reading, and especially loved Carson McCullers's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe , which she read in ninth grade. She thinks that single book led her eventually to put pen to paper when she was twe...more
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