Wordless Wednesday: Sketchbook discovered from years ago

  Not so many years, actually.  The dates in it are 2009-2011.
  i like the work i was doing.  Too bad the sketchbook got "geysered" by our laundry room problems.

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Midweek Photos: Remembering Normal Walking

  When i was in my mid-twenties, i enjoyed the swings on the playgrounds.  Once, i realized i was late for work while doing this, and came to a sudden, feet hard on the ground stop, from high speed.
  It hurt a lot then, but took awhile to catch up to me. 
  Last fall, i had one total knee replacement (TKR), and last month, i had the other.

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Reviewing my Derwent Pencils

   My favorite brand of colored pencils these days is the Faber Castell Polychromos, but there's one thing the Prismacolors offer that Faber Castell doesn't: a fabulous color selection.
  So i find i am trying

Headline News: Your opportunity to take home a gorgeous piece of art

  The Society of Decorative Painters is moving to a smaller space and needs to deaccession many pieces in their museum.
   So you have an opportunity to become the owner of one of the most beautiful pieces of decorative and folk art available.  Many pieces have been prize winners.
  A few brief quotes from the local newspaper:
https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article244605107.html
 Now (The Society of Decorative Painters) is selling about 850 items from its collection that had grown to include about 1,500 items. The collection had grown to include replications of items, rather than highlighting examples of different types of decorative painting such as rosemaling or stipple-painting.
The auction has multiple listings, for example, of painted metal document boxes and serial items, like multiple painted angels and St. Nicholas figures. It also has some unique items, including a confessional and a child-sized table with chairs created to depict different animals like a monkey. 
Local artist and appraiser Trish VanOsdel said she was intrigued when McCurdy called her to help document the artwork for the auction. For years she had driven by the society’s Seneca and McLean location and didn’t realize the “treasures” that were included in the museum, she said.
“The work represents decorative art from men and women from all over the country and internationally as well from pieces from Russia and Japan,” Van Osdel said. “I have seen everything from painted clothing from the ‘80s to amazingly detailed floral bouquets on metal painted trays from Russia to intricate stipple painted furniture from Japan and everything in between including nationally known decorative artists.”
The auction also includes office furniture and display cases along with art supplies.
  If you're local, the article includes info on a brief window tomorrow (Tuesday, 8/4) in which you may view the items live, as well as information about the Society..

Society of Decorative Painters museum collection auction

When: now through noon Thursday, Aug. 6
Where: online at mccurdyauction.com
Bidders can preview the auction items in person 2-4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at the society’s offices at 1220 E. First St.
To view the online auction, 
 https://myemail.constantcontact.com/SDP.html?soid=1129271523015&aid=yybM-LgMI0g

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article244605107.html#storylink=cpy

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Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article244605107.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article244605107.html#storylink=cpy