Alice Gerard

Did you know that on January 17th, 1929, Popeye made his debut in a newspaper comic strip called “Thimble Theatre,” which had gotten its start in The New York Journal in 1919? Before the arrival of the sailor, the comic strip featured a full cast of characters, including Olive Oyl, Caster Oyl, Mama Oyl, Cole […]

Today, I went to a friend’s house for a tea party. For me, that’s about the best kind of party possible. After all, I am Alice, and Alice went to the Mad Tea Party with the March Hare, Mad Hatter, and Dormouse. The three of them were sentenced by the Queen of Hearts to an

It’s Let’s Paint a Rock Day! (non official)

“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced,” Vincent Van Gogh A few weeks before my fifteenth birthday, I decided that I had no artistic talent. I had, just a month earlier, been told by another kid, that I couldn’t draw.

art at fort niagara Ernst Wille (1916-2005) was a German artist and teacher who was drafted into the army during World War II. Apparently, he was a better artist than soldier. During the Normandy invasion, Ernst Wille was one of a large number of German soldiers captured by the Allies. Many of those captured soldiers

almost #wordlesswednesdays #blogboost Getting hungry? What are some of your favorite sweet treats?

a book review One of the great mysteries of the 20th century was the identity of the personal librarian to John Pierpont Morgan. Born Belle Marion Greener to an African-American family in 1879, she became Belle da Costa Greene at the age of 16. Her parents were separated, and her mother brought her and her

Underneath the Niagara Parks Power Station, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, which was a working power station between 1905 and 2006, there is a long tunnel. This tunnel was built without the use of electricty. The main tools used were lanterns, rudimentary dynamite, pickaxes and shovels. This tunnel is an amazing feat of engineering. For a

Today, I used my Derwent Intense paints to create this picture of a flower. I’ve been painting versions of this flower for several months with a variety of mediums. They look alike and they look very different. I’m learning, from the process of painting this flower, over and over again, that, even with colors that

Today’s art project is an example of the “reuse” part of “recycle, reuse, reduce.” This is an old spice jar that I decorated with glass paint. I have a few of these. They are good for holding small objects, such as Q-tips or toothpicks. Or you could simply enjoy the jar as decoration and place