https://laughingsquid.com/10-minutes-of-weird-deep-sea-aquatic-animals/ Often when I teach my art students about creativity we take some time to look up or read about creatures like the ones in this video. We talk about how much fun God must of had as He thought up the earth and created all of the plants and animals and people. We imagine […]
Monday night I was tired so instead of packing up all my paints to go to my art class I took an old sketch pad, some pencils and tray of watercolors. I opened the sketch pad and found some drawings of little characters that I had made, oh, probably about six years ago. I remember thinking that […]
Yesterday in NYC there was a memorial service for Madeleine L’Engle. She is my writing hero. In honor of her I am going to post here a few quotes from her book, “Walking On Water”, the most incredible book I have ever read on art and writing. From pg. 18, Walking on Water: Obedience is […]
While I was in Chicago my Mom and I visited the Chicago Institute of art. There is just nothing like seeing paintings in person. There is a life and spirit there that isn’t in a print or photo of the painting. What is it? I heard a mom say once that the difference between the […]
I missed art class again…was just too tired to go…if I could have gotten there I would have been energized by the creativity and the creative spirits I share the room with…. I went to a very short sculpture class once. We chose a small chunk of stone…mine was green and about the size and shape […]
Tonight I get to go to my Monday Night Painters class! I haven’t been there in weeks and I can hardly wait to get back to creating little two dimensional worlds on canvas. I can also hardly wait to get back to my sweet friends there. Last week I had all my painting paraphanalia packed in the […]
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