…i just wanted to share

  Totally blowing my own horn, or rather, my own Shofar. Tomorrow night Rosh Hashanah begins. The Jewish New Year. This interview is about my family, photography & my art. I’m really…flattered to find myself here. The painting of Moses above, is the one of which i speak of in the magazine. Sculpture with watercolor,…

the farm on the side of the road

a visual feast. Christmas lights all year ’round, American flag covering the window & a tree…branch? holding up the roof. Cool beans

a museum in his pocket…

The title of this post was a story told to me by my father. Louis Rosenthal was walking around downtown Baltimore with his young son. A man stopped to greet Louis & said to Louis’s son, “Your father walks around with a museum in his pocket” I love that my own son has a drive…

the graphite feather…

…may be too heavy to take flight. However, in one way it can…art can make the imagination take flight, if your brave enough.

art class decoupaged birdhouses

the boys that made these were 6 & 7 years old. Pick a theme, find illustrations/scrapbook paper, magazines, cut out, paint birdhouse close to theme color, let dry, then use Mod Podge on the back of image, apply to birdhouse, again apply Mod Podge on top…when all images are on, paint 2 coats of Mod…

the beetle wearing a Bee Halloween costume

or at least that is what i wrote to Kip. Today, the color of my envy is not green, but yellow. Kip’s photography is astonishing. I am so grateful that he shares them with me. These were shot in Vermont.

orange it is…

Nature makes the most beautiful things & then some talented people make it art

one of my favorite commissions

if you look super-duper close at the name beneath the word, “Siddur” you will find, absaab. Which is me. This is the second Jewish prayer book/Siddur that i have been commissioned to design/paint the covers for. I was shooting the redesigned school, the kids seeing the new changes to their school & i came across…