This is a commission i finished for a Rabbi in Texas. Rabbi Scott commissioned me to create a logo for his classes. He is based in Texas, Shma Koleinu…Rabbi Scott suggested Da Vinci’s Vitruvian man for the logo. The name of his classes? ‘being Human’. I told him that woman & children are human too,…
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the cat who wished to paint
my Thursday afternoon art class. three kids, they have no pets of their own. last week was their first class & i told them that Hobbes (my cat) LOVES art more than anything. but, last week, they were a bit scared of him, i had to lock him out of the room. yesterday was their…
2me4art project!
1. Watercolor paper. color a big swirl on one half of paper, using one color of OIL PASTEL. other side of paper, use another color & make another swirl in OIL PASTEL. i picked orange & purple. 2. paint– with WATERCOLOR paint, the colors that are closest to the OIL PASTEL color…i painted my purple…
how to keep your heating bills LOWER this winter
I’ve posted about this before. I hate opening my heating bill & seeing most of my money disappear. I spend a great deal of time in my art studio, most of us spend most of our time in one room. If that one room has no fireplace. Make a portable one. I went to the…
Cold? Itchy? Sick? It is WINTER! A cure for all that ails you…cheap.
Sounds a bit arrogant, does it not? I happen to be one of those people that think too much. (Thank God for sleep, but…”to sleep-perchance to dream- there’s the rub. for in that sleep of death what dreams may come…”) Winter is tough on our bodies & wallets. Heat, whether it’s from a gas or…
bowl of gold…
yeah, i know, i forgot #3…anyway. lets talk about trash, shall we? I bought the wreath at the thrift store for $2.00. I bought the Chanukah gelt (and candy canes, they pick) for my art students to eat, but i ask they leave their trash with me because…geez, how often do you see GOLD tinfoil?!…
give your kids something to do…
over Winter break. This was made with a student who celebrates Chanukah. The same materials can be used to make Christmas ornaments. I’ll show those ideas soon…
my daughter tortures me…
in the best way possible. goodbye jeans that fit… don’t ask for the recipe, Sophie saw a photo of this cookie in a magazine…it didn’t give the recipe, she figured it out on her own. BTW…when she took them right out of the oven, the oreos were soft.
teaching the artist to SEE…
this is my Monday, after school, art class…three 1st grade girls (my classes are no more then 3 children at a time, that i way, i get to create art with them) i know these girls have been taught all day long, so i make my teaching very brief. At first, it is difficult to…
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