Author Archives: Sarah Sullivan

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About Sarah Sullivan

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Wildflowers in a Cup

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

These wildflowers were too beautiful not to paint.

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What’s the Name of this Flower?

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

It is unusually green here at my brother’s place in Colorado for early July, and it seems that with each step we take, another flower is waiting for its portrait to be taken.

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Art and Chat

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

Our family reunion is off to a good start. Today I sketched with a few of my sibs as we chatted the morning away.

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Postscript to the Festival of Saint Anthony

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

Although I finished telling the visual story of the Feast of Saint Anthony in Pietrapertosa Italy, I made one more sketch of that charming town perched on a rocky Italian hillside. This final sketch is of the village from a … Continue reading →

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Festival of Saint Anthony, part 3

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

This story of the Festival of Saint Antonio in Pietrapertosa, Italy, ends with a young man climbing the newly erected tree up to where the two trees had been joined together, wrapping his legs around the trunk, hanging upside down, … Continue reading →

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The Festival of Saint Antonio in Pietrapertosa Italy, part 2

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

Continuing the story of the Festival of Saint Antonio in Pietrapertosa Italy, Saturday night, after the oxen dragged the colossal tree to the base of the church, groups of men worked to roll the tree up a slope near the … Continue reading →

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Festival of Saint Antonio, part 1

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Sarah Sullivan

We came to a small Italian village, Pietrapertosa, for a few days and found the town celebrating the festival of Saint Antonio, an ancient ritual related to the renewal of life involving the symbolic marriage of two trees. Much of … Continue reading →

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