Get a Gift and Give a Donation!

I always donate 10% of sales to food banks
in gratitude for the food I received for my family during the time in my life when I was a single mom and had very little income.

During the month of December,
I will donate 100% of all sales from More to Love to

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Win an Autographed Copy of More to Love

To celebrate my birthday this year,
I’m giving away an autographed copy of “More to Love”
every day during the month of November.
I want to show my appreciation to all of the friends, fans and followers I’ve made this year.
I hope that my art and words have made

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Screaming Fat and Dreaming Fat

The “fear of fat” brings up 32,900 hits on a Google search I recently did. Skimming through the articles, I find that some deal with how the media is afraid to show “fat” models/ actresses,
etc because it won’t sell the fantasy that people expect (!), some are are personal

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I am not Wonder Woman. I have to keep reminding myself of that.

I have been feeling way too stretched out lately: my teaching job, my family, the house & yard, and trying to squeeze in enough time per day to work on writing, researching, emailing, blogging, facebooking, etc.

Sketching ideas to keep my art soul happy and make progress on my next

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Sex, Lies & Photoshop

The New York Times has posted this great video about how photo retouchers manipulate models to create unattainable ideals. Since I use Photoshop in my artwork, and teach Photoshop to my students, I already knew this, but HOORAY for the film maker Jesse Docs for producing this videoand making

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Describe Yourself

I found this very cool website WORDLE where you can input text and then it forms “word clouds”. Just for fun, I typed the text from a page in my book “More to Love” entitled “Describe Yourself”. Here is the word cloud, and the illustration for that page.

© Elizabeth

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OMG: I’m on Amazon.com!

It’s really, really real!I just approved the final proof of “More to Love” last week, and was told it would take several weeks before my book appeared on Amazon.comJust for the heck of it, I checked last night.Here is More to Love, on my very own Amazon.com page!I almost fainted

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Bad Mood

“More to Love” is sunny & cheerful, and that’s the point:there’s already so much gloom & doom in the world(yikes! I can’t even read the news most days)so many complex and negative feelings about body imageand so many things to stress about as a modern woman,but that doesn’t mean I

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Hilda

I sometimes think the only thing that makes sense in the world of ” positive body image” and “self-esteem for women” is to just have a sense of humor.

So here we have “Hilda”, created in the 1950’s by Duane Bryers.Hilda, this young, cute, curvaceous, smiling redhead carries wood in

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Valentine’s Day

“More to Love”

More of Heart.
More of Soul.
More of Mind.
More of Me.

More to Love.

© Elizabeth Patch, all rights reservedfrom “More to Love”, written & illustrated by Elizabeth Patch

A Valentine for any woman who ever thought less of herself because she is “more”

Read “More to Love” for free!

May your day be

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