Well my bedside lamp broke this morning, so I replaced the switch (daughter of an electrician)…and while I had it apart I noticed that the shade was…well…sad. Spots, dirt smudges…ick. Shopping is out at the moment, so I got out my markers and had a go at it… At first I wasn’t so sure, but […]
Category: Drawings
Sketchbook Project
Over the last couple of years I’ve had a lot of fun with the Sketchbook Project…sending them a variety of small fabric pieces as well as a couple of little drawing books. They are in Brooklyn and collect small books from artists all over the world. This spring they went on the road with part […]
…And So it Begins…
We’re only five days in, but so far I’d say 2013 is behaving like every other year I can remember…routine, sublime, annoying, lovely, impatient, content, creative and MILDLY destructive (it’s the wheelchair, not me…scraping the woodwork, tsk…). So the sun set on our beach idyll… and we came back to the gloomy fog of the […]
Week Two Ahead….
Today marks a week since ankle surgery wherein I have cut my meds in half, RE- learned how to spin around the house in a wheel chair, read a mystery (Archer Mayer…”Tag Man”…a good read and thanks Ellen!) and slept a lot. The first few days I was in bed a lot and have a […]
Living the Creative Life: Leonard Ruder
Portland painter Leonard Ruder died a few years ago after a long and productive life as a painter. He was born in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied art at The Cranbrook Academy there. He came west in the 1950’s with his artist friend Hank Kowert to study more, to paint, and to begin his […]
“A DAY WITHOUT WALLS…”
Ellen (creator of the “snail blog”) particularly loves that rare day when there are no requirements, limitations, meetings, errands…a day to just do, well, whatever…and she calls it “a day without walls…” and I think it works for blogs too…
Monday Miscellany…
I really like my eye doctor…. even though I don’t like drops and all that stuff…he’s funny, he’s told me interesting things about my eyes (orbital varix), and he makes little cool drawings… and SOMETIMES he even reads my blog. (Hi Dr. N.) So when I recovered after having my pupils dilated we took off […]
ART LAUNDRY
It all began when Carolyn thought we might want to collaborate on an installation in her “home” gallery Lost Coast Culture Machine, in Fort Bragg, California. She then admitted a deep-seated need to iron in public, and “Art Laundry” was born…with the support of gallery owners Anne Beck and Dietmar Krumrey. We visited the gallery […]
Wednesday was quilt day…
Mary lives in Tennessee but she keeps track of things. She emailed me that quilter Elizabeth Barton was going to speak on the 12th at the Columbia FiberArts Guild in Portland, so I went along to hear her. What a hoot. Barton is English, born and raised in York (though now living in Athens, Georgia)…and […]
On The Way 