It’s almost #wordlesswednesday!!! A few days ago, I went on a day trip to Niagara Falls, Ontario, with family. We went just to look at the great waterfalls with the kids, who live in California and have never seen that great wonder of the world. This was my first visit to Canada since pre-COVID times. […]
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I just finished reading a book called “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. At first, it came across as being a story about how children lived and learned in a boarding school. called Hailsham. They were encouraged to be creative through a variety of visual
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Early every year, I try to choose a word for the year. Sometimes, I remember the word for the whole year, but, quite often, I forget. This year, I will make every effort to try to remember by posting monthly here my thoughts on that word. This year’s word is something that means a great
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