Misleading Title: A Must-Read for Aspiring Artists

  The title is, Abstract Painting: A Practical Approach, by Hennie Reimer.  The emphasis is on "practical."

Saturday Sisters: Jael

  Some things haven't changed.
  In battle, the weaker ones

Farm Family, ca 1924

My mother is the littlest girl here.

Visiting Hidden Hill with Max

One weekday in June 2011 Max and i went to Hidden Hill Nursery.  It was an all day trip, but fun!

You wanted someone else. . . .

Random messages on my voicemail over the years, or, why you should leave a callback number:

Saturday Sisters: Deborah

  In a world dominated by men, how did Deborah come to a position of prominence?

why i'm reading baby name books

Wordless Wednesday: Morning Nap

Photo and Drawing

  

 Since i usually work, like a decorative painter, from another artist's drawing, i'm not free to share my work here.  However, this time, i'm drawing from a photo.  i didn't take this photo, but it's in my collection, taken by someone in my family, probably my deceased mom, of her dog, so i feel comfortable in claiming this image.

  Last fall, i dashed off this drawing, hoping

And the word for today is. . .

  i'm not sure why it's so hard for individuals, especially kids, with autism to say what they mean.  But

Wordless Wednesday: Gift Box

This is a small mache box, done in colored pencil, to accomany a gift of the book, Gift from the Sea.

DIY Art School?

 

 i guess i'm kinda designing my own art school.

Difference of Opinion

  i really, really like choices.  So much so, i have a hard time conceiving of the fact that other people

List

  This is not a hugely thought-out post.  Or maybe i should say, a very ordered post.
  i have been thinking about a long time.  It seems to me that a lot of the Really Big Creative People, the ones who have Changed the World, have been people who haven't fit in as kids.
  But the Not Fitting In is our uniqueness.  We should get comfortable with it, run with it, and not try to be like everyone else.
  Not gonna happen anyway.  And we need all of us to have it all.

Anyone want to start the list?
 

Slice of Life

  In FavoriteBigBoxStore tonight, we had a Communication Incident.
  It may not have been that big a deal, and i'm sure i exhibited Parenting Imperfect.  Here's how it happened.

Wordless Wednesday: Wish We Were There, 3/14

Wouldn't you like to see this from the WalMart Parking lot