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Barbara Johansen Newman
Massachusetts
I'm an artist, children's book author, illustrator, and designer.
Interests: design, illustration, kids' books, kitcshy stuff, elvis lamps, jukeboxes, carnival chalkware, vintage eye glasses, and other stuff your mother threw out. i love to paint and draw and collect. i also love to paint and draw the things i love to collect.
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I should have paid more attention to Philip Roth
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So, not too long ago, I discovered that the author Philip Roth is from Newark, New Jersey. I believe that I first learned this in this New York Times article, regarding his decision to stop writing. With that discovery, a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2013 at Cats and Jammers Studio
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A Great Script Stays With You
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I confess: while I generally hate the culture of Hollywood and the values of the vast majority of people who live that life and inhabit those values, I LOVE movies. Well, that is to say, I love great movies. And... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Cats and Jammers Studio
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Illustration Friday--Glasses!
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So Niclcole Tamarin messaged me to tell me the subject on Illustration Friday was "Glasses." I have never participated in that site before today, but how could I NOT do it now for the first time?? Check it out! I posted my family portrait shown below. Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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The Family That Wear Glasses Together...
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...Sees better together! This is an illustration I did after reworking an old piece I did for Soap Opera Digest years ago. The theme of the old art was that every family had at least one skeleton or slightly nutty member in the closet. In this case, it was the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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Another Day, Another Glasses-Thing to Covet!
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Imagine waking up to the glorious morning sunshine once the weather warms, and you stroll out to your backyard with a steaming cup of coffee, breathe in the sweet scent of spring, listen to the happy chirping of the birds building their nests, and then you glance down....and see the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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Sometimes glasses reflect what's on your mind...
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In this case chickens. Lots and lots of chicken. From an old editorial illustration I did for Pittsburgh Magazine years ago. Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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Bobbie, Joanie, and Glamorous Glasses get a little shout out!
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I was recently interviewed by Monica Lee over at Smart Creative Women. Monica runs a great site that gives people the opportunity to hear about artistic journeys from the artists themselves. She also offers sage career advice and consultation if you are a working artist or creative person. I was... Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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Taking risks, trying new materials, reinvention. It's what artists need to do.
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Recently I had the pleasure, albeit a somewhat nervous pleasure, of being interviewed by my good friend Monica Lee of Smart Creative Women via Skype (nothing makes you more aware of age and weight than knowing you will be on... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Cats and Jammers Studio
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Time to share new art, the new kitchen, and the house. In the end, it all blends together for me.
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I am posting shortly over at Cats and Jammers Studio, my waxing philosophical, often verbose blog. I'll be writing about my journey as an artist and how important I think it is that we allow ourselves the opportunity to shift... Continue reading
Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Design Rocket
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Hey--Gok Wan says I absolutely NEED to have more than one pair of glasses! Addiction absolution!
Well, yes. Yes I do have more than one pair. I won't tell you exactly how many, but I just picked up my latest today ( a pair of striped illestevas to be exact, fitted with transiton progessive lenses) and while I was there I left another pair to be... Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2013 at Glamorous Glasses
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December 2012. Just capturing a sense of the season.
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Pictures really do speak volumes, and my husband, Phil Newman, is a persistent and thoughtful photographer. In our family most of us get so busy enjoying the festivities we forget to drag out the camera. Fortunately he is always there,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2013 at Design Rocket
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If I Build It, Will He Come? It's That Time of Year Again!
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Every year I build a tree for the holiday season using birch branches. I cannot really remember when I started doing this, except I was looking for something to evoke a feeling of a winter setting-almost as though it had... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2012 at Design Rocket
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It's glasses..it's a camera...it's glasses...it's a camera...Wait! IT'S BOTH!
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Well I know I can write about glasses, and wear glasses, and collect glasses, and even EAT glasses...but who knew you could take pictures with glasses? Not me! And, yes, yes you can!! Check out this cool camera here! Will someone please put these in my Christmas stocking???? Continue reading
Posted Dec 18, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Just how much DO you like glasses? Enough for an iPad cover?
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Just when you thought you couldn't get enough images of eyewear in your life (or maybe I can't get enough images of eyewear in MY life) I come along and show you this. And this. Because if you really, really LOVED glasses, then you would just have to have this... Continue reading
Posted Dec 11, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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What Could Be Better? Books AND Glasses!!
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Ok, so now I am totally out of the closet as the lover of eyewear that I am. After all, my book Glamorous Glasses didn't just develop out of thin air. I've lived it for 50 years! So, imagine my total and absolute thrill to be doing the above: siging... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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In Love and in Love with Glasses!
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What could be better than being a glasses wearing, fun lovin' Gal or Guy? Having a special someone else who also loves wearing glasses as much as you do! Couples wearing glasses together, stay together, or so I've heard it said. Seriously, this cute couple is coming home to live... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Another lovely book review and a chance to win the book!
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Here is a lovely blog review of Glamorous Glasses and another great chance to win a copy of the book! And it's a lovely blog you might want to keep on reading, too! Continue reading
Posted Nov 7, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Coffee and Cigarettes, Friends and Lovers. You are invited.
Coffee & Cigarettes, Friends & Lovers from Johansen Newman on Vimeo. It's been a while since I have had the time to post about art, design, and life. That s mostly because I have been totally caught up with art,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Design Rocket
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Glasses are Beauty Pageant Worthy? But of course!
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If you love Mad Men, it is hard NOT to love Christina Hendricks' character, Joan Holloway. And if you love glasses, it's not hard to love her in great eyewear! A good friend sent me a cringe-worthy interview of Ms. Hendricks which I will NOT post a link to, but... Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Random strangeness from random stranger? Gotta love it!! Love me a mystery!
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Today this came in the mail. I thought something was up when the envelope had no return address. At first I thought it was going to be a death threat because, while I love my Facebook friends, we do not always agree on politics. Will it have Anthrax? Will it... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Have your glasses and eat them, too!
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Thanks to my good friend, Jan Koslowski, I now know that, yes, indeed, there ARE chocolate glasses. Isn't everything made into chocolate at some point? even some things we would rather not think about? But I digress... So, now the challenge is to find a great excuse to get a... Continue reading
Posted Aug 16, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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A little bit of artwork for my favorite optician!
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Look. I confess: I have a serious eye-glass obsession. What? You already knew that? Howd ya guess? Anyway, I am going to barter some large prints from my latest book, Glamorous Glasses, for some, well, glasses, of course! Why? Because when you buy several pairs of glasses with progressive frames... Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Have a seat! But don't sit on my first copy of my soon-to-be-released book...
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For fun, I decided to participate in a special fund raising event for the Town of Needham, by painting an Adirondack chair to be auctioned off in September. My theme? Glamorous Glasses of course! Artist Rich Dunbrack who is doing our kitchen (read all about it here) and who just... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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Have a seat! But don't sit on my first copy of my soon-to-be-released book...
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For fun, I decided to participate in a special fund raising event for the Town of Needham, by painting an Adirondack chair to be auctioned off in September. My theme? Glamorous Glasses of course! Artist Rich Dunbrack who is doing our kitchen (read all about it here) and who just... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Glamorous Glasses
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The First Eye Candy Arrives!
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At some point in our kitchen art installation, artist Rich Dunbrack knew we needed to see some eye candy. And you know what? He did, as well. Up until that point it had been a lot of prep work and demolition and painting. One day, before a trip back to... Continue reading
Posted Jun 27, 2012 at Art.Kitchen.Karma
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