“BEE the reason someone smiles today” (Just so everyone understands the ‘bee’ replaces the word ‘be’) HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD ok, so maybe not the world, but perhaps your own? i meet strangers every time i go out to shop. i sometimes think (a side effect of being a hermit) how amazing it is…
Tag: art
Louis Rosenthal’s Great-great grandson’s miniature
my Great Grandfather was a bit famous in his day. His sculpture is still in art museums all over the world. He made tiny things, amazingly tiny things…Henry seems to have the gene, to make things as small as he can too. http://www.louisrosenthalmuseum.org/
making my OWN dreidels
my dreidel isn’t finished yet…i might share how i made it later. but the coolest part? the ‘stand’ is a Christmas ornament holder-the shape is how we illustrate spinning. the stand gives us (sort of) an illusion of movement. this isn’t intended to be played with, just for pretty. you know…i had to send my…
take a hike…craft
a fantastic art project for summer vacation hikers. Step 1. find a thick, tall & somewhat dry stick. find some really cool leaves, (fresh, like pick them off a branch). remove some of the bark (on the stick you find) with a knife. apply masking tape, to make strips, in whatever pattern you’d like. i…
I am changing how we celebrate Hanukkah.
Pretty audacious, right? well, i am tired of tiptoeing around what is right & wrong with how to celebrate Hanukkah. i grew up in Vermont with two parents, my father is Jewish & my mother converted. We grew up celebrating both Christmas & Hanukkah. we got a Christmas tree. perhaps a day or two before Christmas….
paint the windows RED
Because it looks amazing.
zen garden (photo editing tip)
the first image is what it looked like to my eyes. the second image is what it looked like to my camera. to edit second image to look like what i SAW when i took the image, i added yellow & red–because the second image is cyan/blue. The Birmingham Botanical Gardens–Japanese Garden.
abstract kitty art…
the first painting is by a 6 year old, the other two paintings were done by 9 year olds. Amazingly, i can use any combination of media with the kids because there are NO RULES. all of the art i do with the kids, is made up by me. i find inspiration anywhere & because…
saying goodbye to Hobbes
Hobbes walked up to me, in the gardens, said his mute meow…i scratched him between his ears & said, “hello Hobbes” and he walked off into the sunset. This was Oct. 25th. Hobbes is one of the most photographed cats on this blog. His work as my art teaching assistant, along with his own painting,…
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