The fairy and the moon There was once a fairy who lived on the earth. The humans around her barely noticed her presence because they said that fairies weren’t real. They went about their daily business, working at jobs that they did not love and shopping for food that they did not like. The jobs […]
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Today, I wondered what the picture of the flower would look like if I painted it with orange and black ink, which seem very October-ish and Halloweeny. I had been experimenting with mixing orange and black, always with a large amount of orange and a very small amount of black. Together, they produce a brown.
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by superheroes. One of my favorites was Batman. He was not only the mysterious, brooding superhero, he was also a very rich man named Bruce Wayne. So he alternated between rich guy and gigantic bat (although, ironically, Bruce Wayne was actually afraid of bats). He drove a
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… and you’ll get an answer… Alice took a nap, and she left me to write this blog post. My name is Crabby the Crab and I want to know if I’ve got a target on my back. Someone said that I had a whole bunch of targets, but that doesn’t make any sense, does
suspension of disbelief On September 26, Marsha Mis presented a workshop called “Accidental Art” at the Grand Island Memorial Library. The purpose of accidental art is to explore abstraction and nonrepresentation art of all kinds. She has been the artist in residence at Art Park in Lewiston, N.Y. and she has shared her techniques with
and tea… While we were eating our dessert, Maggie Gushue (the costume director for the Grand Island Historical Society) shared the history of handkerchiefs. She had a lot to say, and I was very surprised. Who would ever guess that handkerchiefs were mentioned by the poet Catullus in the first century BC? At that time,
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discovering the joy of ink I’ve almost completed the first week of Inktober because I’ve made six pictures, instead of seven. But, to be fair, I started on day three, so there is that. It’s really all about drawing, although I have discovered that it is possible to use ink as a painting medium. When
almost #WordlessWednesday How do we find hope? Can a glittering candle help us find our way?
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an interview with an Afghan poet Flowers of War by Nematullah Ahangosh most stories end up beautiful only some end so awful like when the bullets, pregnant as almonds, fast as fear pierce like glass the skins on streets of Kabul beautiful stories? I don’t even know what that is you mean flowers of war?
Today’s prompt for the Ultimate Blogging Challenge has to do with autumn. What am I doing that is unique to the season? I guess that I could say that I am celebrating it by starting a month of pen and ink. It’s not the easiest medium for me, so be prepared for some impressive disasters.
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