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I treat the way I work in both fields pretty much the same. I have my MES on Plaza, even when I paint, you know, it's sort of like, just get everything ready and then go, and then, you know, it, you just, it kind of takes you where you want it to go.
For the three weeks or so it takes me to do most of these paintings, I'm for those three weeks walking around, literally in my head, in this painting back and forth, and into the canvas. So I really feel like I've been inside the painting during the time that I've been doing it.
I realized, well, I'm not as good at that as I was about being fast and generating and being able to work constantly all the time. I don't have the stamina. I have a different kind of a stamina I should say.
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Dr. Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician, writer, and the host of Radio Maine. She works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit, in the clinic, on the air, and on the page.
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