I found this picture in my files. I know it’s from my trip to TX in the spring but I don’t know what it is or where I took it. Sunrise? Sunset? Big old moon? I don’t know
I like surprises such as finding pictures I don’t remember taking. Maybe that’s why I’m not [...]
I found out about this service while reading Heather’s blog. It’s called Wordle.
You paste anything you want in their form online and it creates word clouds from your words. You can choose the font and the colors. The possibilities are endless!
I pasted a paragraph from an essay I wrote about my son. They don’t [...]
I’m leaving Fri morning early to fly to Sedona, AZ to see my friend, Paula. I am so excited. First of all because it’s been over a year since I’ve seen her. And secondly because she lives in an art mecca. I fully expect to come back inspired in unimaginable ways.
I have the possibility of [...]
David William takes objects such as balloons and artist’s tape and adds some fun and color to the urban environment. He calls it "Street Intervention". Don’t you love how fun the one pictured above is?
He also does some unusual collage and drawings. He uses some interesting elements that I would never think to [...]
For a long time, peace is something that I have longed for. On my fiftieth birthday, I got a tattoo of a heart with a peace sign in it. The image on the left is a drawing I made of my tattoo.
Yesterday I heard a speaker and he said the definition of peace is [...]
My life has been so rich lately from living near relatives again as well as having the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my kids in TX.
From my family I am learning so much about love. I stopped trying to please and started focusing on just loving them some time ago and [...]
I found this wonderful article about sharpening pencils on Matthew James Taylor’s blog. He gives details about sharpening pencils for various sketching and drawing techniques.
There are types of points to achieve certain strokes, shading, etc. He gives information on the types of sharpeners and methods for achieving the points.
Children’s book illustrations and fairy tale art are two of my most favorite types of art. My favorite children’s book artists are Kate Greenway and Beatrix Potter.
This post presents a large collection of rare sketches from Beatrix Potter’s collection that apparently have not been seen before.
Even in her roughest sketches you still see the softness [...]
