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Finally I acquired enough odd and end plates to finish the birdbath just yesterday, just in time for winter! Will leave it out for a few days just to enjoy the finished project. To be on the safe side, will put the birdbath up for winter as I am sure that a winter storm would cause damage to the broken plate tile finish.I really feel sympathy for those that got slammed by the recent October snow

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The Fly And then theSick Rose These were done while on a trip last month.

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As promised, here's the start of the birdbath mosaic. It's still in planning stages. Working with what I have and seeing what ideas will sprout. The temperature went to 95 today so I'm not mixing the tile cement. There is a working limit of 30 minutes and at 95 degrees, that shortens to about half or fifteen minutes.  I'll try not to post too many photos. Remember this is only my second time at

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You are probably expecting an update on the tile birdbath. You most likely would be right except for the fact I lost the tile nippers and safety glasses. So finally found them this morning in my gardener tool bag. Why there you ask? I'm not allowed to break plates inside. However careful I am, plates fly through-out the air, landing here, there, everywhere. Soon, soon I promise. In the meantime

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Folks, Just turn your sound down and just watch the show. :-) I love a good commercial! Have started the birdbath. More later.

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Last Sunday made fig preserves.  My first time. It's true. Only had 31 figs, my tree, a brown turkey. Friend came by and split what I made with her. Mine lasted three days, hers, she finished the next morning. ;-) These are new figs. Brown turkey figs are small figs. I've picked these just a little before hang-down ripe. Trying to beat the ants and birds so I can enjoy these juicy jewels. And

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Who knew I would like mosaics? Well for a long time I have wanted to fix a garden bench that seating area was destroyed in a hail storm. Finally got the urge to explore my ability to do a real mosaic and learn that it fairly easy  project. Beside gouging my self with cut pottery twice and three humongous blisters on my hand I learned to wear leather gloves. I was good in that I wore safety 

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Right, already two days into summer and here in the rolling hills of the Piedmont, the days are hot! I love it. Can't complain because when it's cold, well I'm wishing for days like now. Warm, moist, with the smell of fresh air and I am happy. So what is everyone up to? I have mostly worked in the yard/ garden. Killed yellow jackets this week that where to close for safety. I hate that the only

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Found this posted on ebay  the other day someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and asked me a rhetorical question, " why didn't we have a drug problem when you and i grew up"? i replied i had a drug problem when i was young: i was drug to church on sunday morning. i was drug to church for weddings and funerals.

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Hehe, I'm all shook up! One and only courtesy source from Wikipedia media.Did this some time ago. He still rocks me.  Charcoal & pencil on paper

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It's hotter than 109 degrees here in the old South! Join with me in declaring June, Elvis month! *Smile* It's gonna be hot baby, enjoy! Now go paint!

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Hello old friends, it's been awhile since I've written you all. Getting back into the swing of blogging has not been easy. I have hemmed and hauled, dragged my feet, ran screaming away, well not that drastically but like a good painting, I've needed reflection time. There is an old Chinese saying, that it takes as long to appreciate a painting as it did for the artist to create it. In my own life

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How can a small, off-the-cuff comment about one's painting style weigh like a monkey on your back? Little children are wonderful for these type of truthful, spur of the moment comments. I remember one time my daughter saying, "Your dress looks like the curtains." Wonderful enlightenment to hear right before you head out the door, giggle now, but quiet the opposite effect at the time. Every woman

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TIME 100 Persons Of The CenturyAlways good to know who's who.

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I will be yours. For J & D

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Corbin Design Helps People Find their Way in Museums""Where do we go from here?” It’s a question everyone asks – and it has a number of answers."" It is a new way to find your way. Cool idea! Or at least it sounds cool. The proof is always in the pudding, so to speak. Do I want someone tapping into my state of mind? Not really. Not in a museum or any other place. Allowing tapping into how one

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Way back when I was around 25, yes, a long, long time ago, I quit a pretty good job because the owner of the company ignored my request to not cut down an oak tree to build a parking lot. Did it make a difference to the tree? No, the merchant had the tree cut down and poured asphalt in it's place. I was broke afterwards, but my morals were intact. Well, here's a story Every tree tells a story.

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Via my friend Janet's FB NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Tedious observations about the severe winter weather are expected to dominate the conversations of uninteresting people for the next 24 to 48 hours, boredom experts warned today.Hilarious! Let me bore! ;O) Christmas NightSecond Day of ChristmasSanta Resting After A Hard DayScottish Lemon Shortbread Before Baking Recipe from Laura at Our

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Watch the full episode. See more Paris The Luminous Years.

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Who doesn't have back problems these days?   Do you sit at the computer too long or stand in one place? Whether  "Standing or sitting, the back needs to be in extension, not compression.  Place the work above the eye-line and stretch toward it.  Try not to bend over things." Read the Robert Glenn newsletter Paint Smart.

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Video  on lesson's she learned. Life & Losses. Leonard Cohen's Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your

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~Hi~ Wish You Were Here !!!!!

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It is suppose to snow here today, maybe a light dusting to cover the grass. Passing that along to one reader who I know loves snow. Will make a snowman for you if we get enough participation. Yes, I am going to rub it in that snow is here and not where you are! Today's plan is to clean gutters. Yes, will climb up the ladder and do my own gutter cleaning in this chilly weather. In fact, must get

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Lol, read this blog post and see if you don't know it was written by a man. Haha funny. http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/02/sex-and-the-baby-years/ I love the thing he wrote: 4.      Ladies, make an effort to rediscover your sense of sexual self-esteem. I know it’s hard to feel like your sexiest self when you’re a mom, but let the guy in your life know what he can do to support you.

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Black Friday, Why is it I have a grip? I've never bought from *. I've always wanted to buy the Rowney Italian Pink oil paint. That I know of, not many sources supply Rowney Artist Oils. Daniel Smith use to, but they've stopped. So, I decided to buy three tubes of Rowney Italian Pink oil paint this past Friday because * was advertising Free shipping, plus they offered no tax if you spent $25.00.

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http://www.noradsanta.org/ For all good little boys and girls. Santa is on his way! Time is ticking...........better be good............oops, not enough time for me to get on Santa's good girl list............. well maybe if I trick him.Don't tell. :O) A beautiful painting In Christmas  by Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov, Russian 1922-84

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"Due to special circumstances the library is closed until further notice.”The library may be sold off in pieces to pay debts.  Professor Wouter Hanegraaff, Chair of the History of Hermetic Philosophy at the University Amsterdam, wrote in an open letter that  " If the Ritman library would go down, this would mean an enormous blow to international scholarship in hermetic studies. The damage would

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My father always would advise me to stay busy. Especially if I had come to him seeking his thoughts on a difficult situation. His advise:  "Do something, even if it is only jumping up and down." I find these words are often a comfort to me now as they where then. So get up and stay busy and keep your mind focused. My words to me. ;O)  It seems that others agree that idleness is not a place you

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Everything about how we live our lives today changes at warp speed. In the US, medical and health care is very big business as also is the food industry. It's important to know as this article explains, not only what we are eating but how the food is processed before we eat in fact effects us as the consumer. Nothing is better for us I believe than pure, unaltered food. However, we don't want to

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A sample reading here: The Tile Club and The Aesthetic Movement in America (1877-I887) The Tile Club was a group of 31 notable New York painters, sculptors, and architects - including Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, J. Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Ehilu Vedder, Edwin Austin Abbey, Arthur Burdett Frost, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Stanford White - who met together between 1877 and

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A tall oak against the Carolina blue sky. Not a friendly cat! Baby Charlie Not my cat in the tree Not my cat in the left tree running away from the unfriendly cat.The Persian beats Not my Cat up all the time?  My Sugar Maple My Garden Fairy My Garden Art Moss at the base of an oak tree. Beauty Berry More Beauty Berry Eastern Red Bud The Great Pumpkins & Noah

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Well it looks like aprons are out of the kitchen and the next big thing in fashion. LOL I am not sure if the guru fashion designers just don't get it or they finally are getting with it ;o) Since I've been around a few fashion blocks, where appropriate, an apron can appear attractive. Other times, no way. Maybe some women will want to buy an apron inspired outfit. Maybe some women will want to

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Not that she's been crowned queen or anything like that but she could be crowned for sure. So I'll just crown her. My daughter is the art bites' Persimmon Queen!  She just loves persimmons.And today I could not be more proud of her because of how she carries on  a family tradition of making persimmon pudding.  I just didn't know how much she loved persimmons until this year.  So she finds these

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I just dig reading these older books.

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I confess, I spend too much time on the net. I never knew there was a name for this addiction until I read the latest Robert Glen newsletter. Darn! Net junkies are declared a type of new alcoholic. Those are pretty serious charges. I spend too much time doing other things beside painting too. What's that called, addictive behavior of what? To me, I just live a life.  Today, I am cleaning out my

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Google Book For the art student & craft worker Dec 1908 Volume 1, Issue 3-12 A MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR THE TECHNICAL STUDY OF OIL AND WATER COLOR PAINTING, DRAWING, MODELING, AND CRAFTS. ... Palette & Bench

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The fourth Sunday in October is Mother-in-law's Day. Who knew that? I think everyone should celebrate their mother-in-law. Buy her lunch, send her flowers. If she won't go out with you. Take heed. You are most likely on her bad list. Make her a cake and paint her a picture of herself. She will warm to you and love you like your own mother. From what I've read, Your own mother can give you

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makes for a dull life 5" x 7" watercolor & gouache on  bee paper I added the link to this paper if you want to check bee out because I like their paper.

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Yes, artists are very quiet, orderly people. Hey, I know what you like. I found this video on You Tube,  it's long, 70 odd minutes or so but very enlightening on watercolor history, techniques, paper, etc. Some of the things talked about, they don't show, but, overall, interesting if you like watercolor. I'm working on liking it. I liked the small part where they spoke of bodycolor. You sort of

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Just a little update on this painting. Shown in a frame to get a general idea of how it is going. That is a tip. Place your painting in a frame to judge color, comp, etc. It helps to see, it's like turning your painting upside down to find errors. 

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New research says handwriting trains the brain. I'm not so sure that is big news. Writing has always been a way humans learn. What do you think?  

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I'm still trying. ;O) Back to drawing every day now. And am now using watercolors, not my favorite medium but using different media causes one to think how do you do this or that. It stimulates the brain cells rather than not. I've not given up oils. No, they just take more effort to use right now than the time I have to devote to my art. However, I am going to devote some time each day to at

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I made it! Even the bow! ;O)

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Do you ever have enough art supplies? I know I am always on the outlook for a deal to save a few dollars. I have willingly given my email to all the art suppliers I can find on the internet. Each morning I look at each advertisers offer to see who wants my business. Then I shop! Aw! but the thing is I don't carry through with the purchase, at least hardly ever do I buy. Big deal it is! Why not? I

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A short video on the newly recreated Norman Rockwell Studio. The studio now represents more closely a day in October, 1960 representing how the studio looked in active use by this artist.                   Visit the website here: http://www.nrm.org/

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Well I've been gone for a few weeks visiting family. Had a wonderful trip and brought home a cold. LOL, yes, I brought home my husband. He had a cold almost the whole time. In turn, he gave his cold to me and everyone else. Got to love him though, he is still fighting the bug. I guess it is good that I waited till I got home to have a fever. No matter all the hand washing and sanitizer, the germs

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Life as an artist is not easy. Part of the requirement of being artistic means knowing how to draw. It's true. One must know how to draw. How many times have you heard from a friend, spectator, or acquaintance that they can't draw a straight line and therefore they are not an artist? What has set me off this morning? An advertisement for a exclusively designed digital projector just for artists

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Batten down the hatches folks. This picture from space shown by Douglas H. Wheelock NASA Astronaut, STS-120, Expedition 24/25. I love his quote  Earl – “Go placidly amid the noise and haste… and remember what peace there may be in silence…”

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The RainIt was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital  signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I  was not busy with another

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Lol, when is the oppressive heat of Summer going to wane? I do believe it has to be one of the hottest summers in recorded history. I just finished eating a nice hot ear of corn-on-the-cob. Tasty. My newest trick to cooking corn is from a neighbor. Just take the whole ear, stalk and all and pop it in the microwave for three minutes. Remove husk and silk with a paper towel and season to taste.

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Last night, Friday, August 6th on Jay Leno Show, Emma Thompson was interviewed. Link in post below: Azul, I thought of you, your darling drawings of Nanny McPhee, anyways, about 10 minutes into his show Jay has a short bit, like 30 seconds that show Emma made up into Nanny and I thought you'd love it! I did, and of course her interview was so very wonderful. She is a delightful person. Emma

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Friday, August 6, 2010 - Video - NBC.com

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Hi yes, this is not a dog.  The dog is asleep. Haven't you ever heard, don't wake a sleeping dog?So where have I been? Oh to be sailing the seas...............nope, I'm just swimming in the ever heavy humid weather of the south. I love it here. Mornings are cool; mid-days are hot, afternoons, hotter, and evenings are perfect for short walks. On really hot days, I say I'm just a little dewy

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Manuscript Exhibition Examines Aspects of Play in Medieval Society

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Checkmate! Medieval People at Play

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Since I'm getting ready to go on all these wonderful trips, ;o), Daniel Smith was kind enough to prepare this article on what artists should pack. Packing to Paint: An Artist Guide to Holiday Travel from Daniel Smith Art Materials

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Most remarkable short film from the met on the painting techniques of Xie Zhiliu, Chinese Painter. 36 minutes. Passing this along because it mentions the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manuel. s.

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To find this article, click this link: http://www.aymag.com/view/188

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California Design Biennial: Maverick spirit - latimes.com

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I love the idea of making your own books. Anything none mechanical has special charm. In this video Lisa Spangler shows how she makes a Japanese bookbinding using ribbon. The video is nine and some minutes long, long enough for a sit down to enjoy a cup of  hot coffee. Hope you enjoy. Lisa's blog post has been added to the blog roll.

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Here's a cute little vid on a make-at-home wholesome snack. I heard these Crispy Kale Bites are delicious! Let me know if you make them. (I think at one time someone was going to make me some but I never got them.) ;o)

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My guilty pleasure. I'm not sure. If I was a man, I may have symptoms of male menopause. lol. Not a man so I am most likely just guilty of trying to be a kid again. Some might say I've not ever grown up. Yesterday I almost bought a sail boat on auction. A repair-me sloop that needed a new rudder. Want to see it? Isn't she beautiful?  I came within a very short  hair of buying her. Honey keeps

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Seriously, I failed home economics in school. I am sure that teacher would fall over and die if she saw this domesticated gal sewing. I still stink (nice word) at sewing.  Most other things domestic I stink at too! I am glad I  am now am old enough it doesn't bother me that I stink at a few things. At least I know I tried. Only sixty more to go~As I told my loved one, if you were planning on a

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Just a little more interest in the tables I use. The first is really more "" official "" artist! Oak, it's a dream that I don't dare get paint on. It's so heavy duty I use this table for my framing tools. Hehe, a framer taboret!Here, flexible acrylic sheeting is used to protect the top shelf. The other table is an old 50's style metal typing table with folding wings.It's a new find from flea

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Lol, that's right, yo-yos! It's not clear to me which is the better known name, Yo-Yo or Suffolk Puffs but either way, I have begun. The story began a month or so ago when a friend was showing me her guest bedroom. Upon the bed was the most beautiful patchwork quilt. I just loved it. Well I thought maybe she would give it to me. Lol, dream! Giggle! I did get a piece of homemade cheesecake. Grin!

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 Sunrise By Claude Monet The longest sunlight day of the year!Sunrise 6:09Sunset 8:39 For more information see: Artbites' Studiolo Summer Solsticedate: June 20,2010

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I have never met an artist who was not a hunter-gatherer type. Artist need things to inspire creations. Artist also need tools, like brushes or easels to work. My friend Moncia at Bugs In My Paint,  has been looking at artist's taborets. A taboret is a small table an artist uses to lay their palette, palette cup, brush or paint tube upon while painting. The ideal taboret is the proper standing

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This is the sewing machine I learned to sew on. It belong to my momma. It was a workhorse of a machine. This image brings back many memories of my mother sewing.  Do you have a sewing machine? I'd love to see a picture. Here's a picture sent by Noahbythesea. It's her momma's Singer sewing machine. and  this turquoise beautya Sears Kenmore

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Name an Irishman who died at 94 of renal failure precipitated by injuries incurred by falling while pruning a tree. He enjoyed working in his yard.* I never met an Irishman who didn't like to prune trees. Well on to trees. It was a hard, freezing cold winter here. Many weeping willows took the weather hard and died. Those that have hung on to survive look pitiful. I did find one set of three

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The basil is still small but it's alive. ;O)

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Here are a few bloomers from the garden. This is the time of year I love being outside. A three year-old hydrangea. I'm pretty sure this was pink when I planted it. I guess there are benefits to keeping a garden journal. I should consider that. This is a true seven sister rose. I've grown these roses for close to twenty years now.They are a pain. Picky, like a cat, they are a demanding type

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Claude Monet, Weeping Willow In celebration of my 100th Blogger post, some tips and tad of painter wisdom to analyze color when painting outdoors. I hope you will find them interesting to read. The best way to analyze color from: Gruppe on Color by Emile A. Gruppe The amount of color you see is a result not so much of what you look at---but of how you look at it. The best way to analyze an

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This is pretty cool program to let you compare the surface size of the Gulf oil spill  by using an overlay  over  anyplace on the planet. I'm sure hoping the "top kill" procedure works. This link http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ lets you compare your local area to the size of the oil spill using a program built by Paul Rademacher  -  [email] Built using Google Earth API

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My newest tool is a paint tube wringer. This one is by Shinhan and is hard plastic. I have been wanting a tube wringer for some time. However, since the price of art supplies and tools are ever increasing,  I worried that the cost of one of these tube wringers would not be worth the labor or material savings.  Saturday, I stopped by the local college bookstore hoping they may have some type of

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Yes of course I am still here. For those of you who are older than sixteen, lol, time really does fly when you are older. In six months it will be Thanksgiving in the US and time for the Christmas holidays. Can you believe that? So what have I been up to? I've not painted any since the irises. I had a really nice Mother's Day. Joined a few Ning sites. I wonder if they will be around after June

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What’s a Grandmother? (What is a Grandfather too ;o))) A Letter from a Third-Grader A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own. She likes other people’s little girls and boys. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes for walks with the boys, and they talk about fishing and stuff like that. Grandmothers don’t have to do anything except to be there. They’re so old that they shouldn

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Taking a break from the oak trees, (Hint, hint) while waiting on wet paint to dry, hehe, why not paint something eles? DJ inspires. Irises in all their glory are hard girls to paint. Plein air, mid-day. 22x28 inches oil on canvas

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Just as the title says, oak tree up close view of a painting I'm working, sky holes included. So what do you think of these greens? ;)The oak is in my backyard, but I'm painting it inside from memory. *By the way, this is just a lower corner of a large painting. The whole is not ready for showing.

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I've got to do housecleaning today. My house. Yesterday I felt like using the yellow pollen that is everywhere outside as pastel dust and writing my name on anything that wouldn't move. I feel that way with just plain ordinary dust too. Lol. Today I'll be making a leather belt as recommended to make a leather strop for shinning up those linoleum cutters. To make your stop more interesting to

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It's Azul's fault, giggle. She is hosting an April project here. I've got to buy a bayer this week. Otherwise I'm good to go. (I think ;O)))))) And I'm hoping the ink is still good This stuff is pretty old. Other stuff, the cat that's not mine had five kittens Saturday a week ago.Thankful she had them at her real house. Here's the swing not covered in snow. Remember when? The Labyrinth is

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I've been so busy the last two weeks. I don't know if I should complain or not? I'll get you all updated soon. I promise.  Way back in this blog I wrote about notes I make on small pieces of paper. I get so mad at myself  because I don't write who to give credit.  I do know better. At the time I am sure I will remember who and later I don't remember.Before I lose this note, here's this art words

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It's spring time here. The weather is just now getting warm enough to open windows and paint using solvents. I don't know how harmful they are to breath but I don't think the fumes are healthy. Today I'm having lunch with a friend that oil painted for years. She is in the early stages of Alzheimer. We painted together a few times. I remember the room we used hanged heavy with fumes of odorless

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Yeah June!Great Article on you and your artwork! Congratulations! http://www.theartssite.com/main/pg/blog/admin/read/4502/artist-spotlights-an-interview-with-june-walker June is a very creative artist whose work I've enjoyed for many years. You can also find her blog in the sidebar widget Goggle  Friend Connects  ArtbyJune. Bravo June

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day Herrings Be not sparing,Leave off swearing.Buy my herringFresh from Malahide,Better never was tried.Come, eat them with pure fresh butter and mustardTheir bellies are soft, and as white as a custard.Come, sixpence a dozen, to get me some bread,Or, like my own herrings, I soon shall be dead. _Jonathan Swift Image Source: Wikipedia\Poetry: Jonathan Swift

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Lol, you would think it would warm up......It started that way early this morning. Trotting out to retrieve the morning news papers I thought it was going to be a nice sunny, warm, spring day. And it was for about three minutes until I felt a cool north breeze on the back of my neck. Just this weekend our daffodils started to bloom.  Forsythia bush blooms are still waiting to burst open in all

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This is my office. The easel is too big so half of it is stuck inside the closet. Aluminum foil serves many purposes. Top of a glass top tea cart taboret Bookcase The other side of the shelf Watchful  Patriotic  & stacks of art supplies catalogs Books Guard Dog & Paintings on top of bookcases and the floor Books Pencil Sharpener, Dress, Books, Lamp, Mascot Canvas

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A photo of my cigar paint box. I really like using this box. It's small, closes tight, and the paint stays fresh. I keep a small cotton pad moisten with clove oil stapled to the lid. The fumes I believe help keep the oil paint nuts from drying out. However, my experience is hues such as brunt umber are going to dry out regardless.  The mixing area in the center is kept clean by just wiping  it

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I am trying to feel Spring like but it's so hard when earlier this week, March the 3rd at 2 am it looked like this.....

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Just a heads up on a new movie. The art is beautiful. The background music delightful.  I'm looking forward to seeing this movie. “an interesting hand-drawn film about a ninth-century boy who rebels against his guardian’s orders and helps to illuminate a famous Irish manuscript.” Co-directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, the film is based very much in the visual style of medieval art,

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Blue! Tis the hue of heaven, - the domainOf Cynthia, - the bright palace of the sun, The tent of Hesperus and all his train,The bosomer of clouds, gold, grey, and dun. Blue, 'tis the life of waters, - ocean,With all his tributary streams, pools numberless,May rage and foam and fret, but never canSubside, if not to dark-blue nativeness. Blue! gentle cousin to the forest green;Married to green in

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These truffles look so good I just want to pass the link along.Twirl and Taste: Heart-Throb Truffle Kisses for Valentines - So Easy, So Divine and So Chocolate!

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10 tips for winter photography - National Wildlife Federation

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Here is a doodle page in the sketch book for a rag doll pattern I was designing  for a Velveteen Rabbit type bunny as I remember it from the story for my grandson Noah.  Well tonight, I went to get the sketch and low and behold, that sweet little fat rabbit had been kidnapped by a sailing bandit, har-har!!! Poptart, or Pops, or Pappy Happy found a pencil. He's such a mischievous boy. I love him

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Artists in Residence: architecturaldigest.com

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