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To create this project, I first applied painter’s tape to the canvas. Then I painted in black and varying shades of gray. Once the paint was dry, I removed the tape to get the different shapes. After that, I added a collection of quotations with a Sharpie pen. The quotations are about art and life. […]

#WordlessWednesdays #blogboost Trinity loves a lamp. Here are some fun art shots of the cat showing her fondness for the lamp on the computer desk. See you on Friday for more fun with black and white images!

seeing the world in black and white “The most colorful thing in the world is black and white; it contains all colors and, at the same time, excludes all.” Vikrmn My February art project is all about black and white. The cool thing about drawing and painting in black and white is that you can

#WordlessWednesdays This Saturday and on February 25th, the Grand Island Historical Society and the Buffalo Launch Club are presenting a program titled “Boats, Booze and the Buffalo Launch Club in the 1920s.” Back then, the Buffalo area was a major site of boating regattas. Prohibition was a thing, and Grand Island, being isolated, was a

Today is the last day of the January Ultimate Blogging Challenge, and I thought that I would share some photographs of animals, along with a few words of wisdom from other people. Thank you for reading my blog this month. I hope that you enjoyed it. I plan on posting three to four times per

having fun with the camera’s creative shots setting A few months ago, my friend Amy gave me a camera. I did with it what I usually do. I set it up without reading the directions. I generally am too impulsive to read directions, as, once I have a new toy, I want to get started

Weekend life is definitely different than the weekday life that I described in Friday’s blog post. Well, it’s not always different. Sometimes, there are events for me to photograph for the newspaper. In a few weeks, there will be the Valentines Day farmers market, with fun, colorful baked goods and candies to photograph. Such a

This is the blog post that I had planned for Thursday, if only I hadn’t fallen asleep first… On Thursday morning, I was doing last-minute writing, finishing an article about a Disney on Ice skater for my local newspaper, the Island Dispatch. It was an interesting, inspiring story of a man who has been a

#blogboost #wordlesswednesday It snowed for much of the day, and it looks really pretty. This morning, I was in River Lea, the Grand Island Historical Society’s headquarters at Beaver Island State Park, to do some photography for an upcoming newspaper article. While I was there, the snow started falling, so I headed outside to take

after your team loses… I have been a Buffalo Bills fan for years. It has been a roller coaster ride, for sure. There have been good seasons and atrocious ones. There was the bizarre four Superbowl losses in a row, which included the infamous “wide right” field goal attempt. Following those years were many years