Tag: art

Christmas ornament art project

The bird that is mostly glittered with MOD PODGED wings & tail was the idea of the Mom who signed up for the class.  I thought her idea was brilliant & it ended up that I liked her idea more then my own.  She also painted inside the black lines because they couldn’t be drawn…

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rock on

better noticed here then resting among thousands.

stacked stones

my mother’s porch. her glass art, a miniature, sits atop her pile of stones. someday those stones could find themselves as sand, then fired in a kiln, made into glass… DIY art project…the stacking of stones is one anyone can do.  Glue together if they are to sit in the garden.

rock, paper, scissors & glass

her media choices are ever changing, her style changes as does the seasons. My mother finds an art form & takes it every direction she cares to, until she stumbles onto another. Her studio table, today, is covered in glass- bright, colorful & sharp. All waiting to be assembled. On her shelves, sit her origami…

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college sits on the shelf

i grew up surrounded by books about Bob Dylan or Kabbalah or physics or Sir Isaac Newton or chess plays by Bobby Fisher. What about Dad’s Hasselblad or the Talmud? I grew up in Vermont, snowed in with three channels. I read almost every book on my mother’s fiction shelves (I read ‘fear of flying’…

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paint the trains red

my beautiful son @ age two. I bought him the letters of his name in unfinished wood. His favorite color then was red & black. I LOVE his little curl at the top of his head. Wish I could time travel & snuggle with him for a while.

ah…a Camelot knight lives here

For this is a noble house of Saab. With Sir Henry charming his mother of Halloween candy for breakfast. Easy to make…pencil, matt board, acrylic paint, the AMAZING Chisel tip Sharpie (best invention EVER) for the back of the shield- two inch wide masking tape. So Henry could carry it. directions…8″ of tape then, 4″…

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