Well, not exactly. Yes, I have painted a whole bunch of eggs, and I am excited about continuing the egg painting process, but I am not mass producing them. I have to paint more because I’ve given away most of the eggs that I’ve already painted and it’s not Easter yet. Today, I painted three […]
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That’s not original to me. I heard it somewhere. Mostly, it has to do with challenging the idea that people with intellectual disabilities are somewhat less than the rest of us. In the past, many of them were stuck in large institutions, where they were warehoused, rather than educated. But it gets worse than that.
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Yesterday, it snowed. I was staring through the window at it with a wicked glint in my eyes. “Winter,” I declared (fake) forcefully. “You’re fired.” Well, um, that didn’t work. So, as the cliche goes, if you can’t beat them, join ’em. Which I did today when I had the opportunity to take a photography
jacket weather never ends… Read More »
After painting eight wooden eggs, I was starting to feel as if inspiration had fled. Nevertheless, I decided to paint three wooden eggs today, even though I had absolutely no plan in mind for them. Unfortunately, my creativity was taking a nap… I looked at the eggs and blanked out. I didn’t have a clue…
Imagination, come back!!! Read More »
because I don’t have a clue of what to write about… So, I don’t know what to say. It’s as if I got stuck and I want to talk about random stuff. Or maybe I could write a poem. A poem about a sailboat that floats off into the sea. So here goes. I’m going
G is for going to wing it… Read More »
In today’s blog post, I’m going to talk about four color-related things. I made another painting with the matte pastels on canvas, and I attempted to create a color wheel within the center of the flower, but it really didn’t work well. Which is okay. The goal of daily practice is to sharpen skills, not
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Three colors, to be exact. These three colors are turquoise blue, deep red, and lime green. So, instead of painting an image, I chose to do a paint-mixing experiment. I wanted to mix them to see how many colors I could create. Although I am sure that I could have created many more shades by
Today is Wordless Wednesday, so I am sharing a picture of two wooden eggs that I painted this afternoon. It is day 39 of the 100-day art project.
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Happy April! This month brings another edition of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge, along with the annual Blogging from A to Z challenge, always held in April. This year, I’m collecting challenges like my dad used to collect stamps. Yes, my dad was quite the stamp collector and he and I bonded over the stamps that
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I am now participating in the 61-day Daisy Yellow Index Card a Day challenge for the third year in a row. Each day, on Daisy Yellow’s website (https://daisyyellowart.com/, I get both a prompt for the day and a theme for the week. The challenge began on June 1st, and it will end on July 31st.