Of course there’s a lamp on the other side of the bed too..an inexpensive IKEA or Target lamp with a now glaringly white and spotted shade…CRYING OUT to become one of a pair… and it looks good too…but I’m stopping here… though it is making me want to go around the house with a critical […]
Tag: Art
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 […]
Seeking Order
Neither art-making nor quilting, my two main endeavors these days, are orderly processes for me. (I AM orderly in the kitchen…learned behavior after over a decade in a restaurant kitchen…but in other work, my work-space becomes something of a disaster area. I’ve come to believe that if it isn’t a mess, nothing good will come […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Almost Ready
Meanwhile, over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture show (“Myth, Nature and Renewal”) that R has been working on for most of 2 years, is coming together at a rapid pace, and is going to be stunning…here are a few “behind the scene photos… …and then today…TA DA…the book has […]
Notes From the Sewing Room Floor
Well…not the REAL sewing room. The real sewing room is upstairs, and I can’t get there right now…so in the spirit of making do, I moved my machine, ironing board and piles of stuff down to the main floor. (Note: the person I live with is very tolerant…) I set up shop in “the back […]
…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 […]
Householding at the Beach…
We’re tidying up for New Year’s Eve, and to do my part (not even close…) I took on the dusting of the rooms I can get into in the wheelchair. Wheelchair dusting, it turns out is kind of fun…a different vantage point and a way to appreciate things anew. I started in the bedroom dusting […]
George and Manuel…
The final final FINAL manuscript proof went to the printer this afternoon for R’s book on Manuel Izquierdo. It will look like this (only R’s name will be on the front cover too): and yesterday George and Phyllis came down to look at the first two parts of the show, which are already up…see here…R […]
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 […]
Snail Mail…
I’m pretty electronic these days. Hours seem to be spent weekly on email, searching, blogs, (an occasional game of mah jong…it’s true) etc. However, when trying to wade through the MOUNTAIN of paper that the mail-woman brings everyday, I noted that this has been a pretty attractive snail mail week… Dan Schmidt is having a […]
On The Way 