Category: General
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Granite Pastry Island
Jennifer loves to bake, and everyone loves to keep Jennifer baking. She is a wonderful cook, and her pastrys are particularly tasty. Last year I made a granite pastry island to keep her crusts cool as she works the dough. We bought a basic island from Kitchens etc. to keep the project economical. I then…
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Looking at those two photos, of my self portrait, together, I wonder if that one was really the one I made the dots with. I managed somehow to digitally break the original, so I’ll never know. I tried a couple more, of Henri Cartier-Bresson drawn from an article in Newsweek. They had Helmut Newton photograph…
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Fête de la Musique
We went to la Fête de la Musique tonight. I have never seen Paris so exuberant. It was lovely. As nothing is ever done by halves in France, neither was this night. Over 300 bands played literally on every street corner. We arrived at Metro Palais Royale Musee du Louvre around seven, and saw a…
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Frida Kahlo
I saw the movie about Frida Kahlo and have been obsessing ever since about doing a self portrait. I never realized portraiture could be so difficult. My first attempt looks nothing like me. I have to revise the head shape and size and redo all the features. But my second attempt, more of a sketch…
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Today I got up early
This is rare. I painted this weekend, and will post results. Its nothing special, just an exercise in mixing all the colors from the CYM colors plus white. But it was fun.
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Feminist
To deny freedom, on the grounds that some may abuse it, disregards the possibility that the denial of freedom also fails to recognize our call to experience the fullness of human life. ~Patricia Mullins, Becoming Married, Towards a theology of marriage from a woman’s perspective I think I’m becoming a feminist.
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Oil & Pastel on Canvas
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Wax