When the Sunday movie was the Wizard of Oz, the rain washed the event out,and some friends dressed up for the costume contest made my evening at home watching the Tony Awards quite spectacular. Robert bounded in the door in his flying monkey suit, (I wish I had the picture of him with the mask [...]
Two tons of gravel, 270 feet of landscape fabric, 40 feet of plastic, countless hours of labor, and one less glove later, the drainage system for the front of the house is complete. This picture was taken after shoveling in the first ton of gravel into the trenches which are nearly two feet deep at [...]
Just thought you might like to see a shot of the kids in action. Unfortunately, Rachel is hidden behind Shannon in this shot, but I just love the big wave from Wilson so much I had to show it off. They are working on their value studies of the black box behind them. The table [...]
Another art and life parallel-values define the form. This week the students continued to work on seeing values and using them to indicate form. This is the second value study they have done and I can see the progress as they learn to switch to a new way of seeing. A few more weeks and [...]
The homeschool class still has fun painting the table with the day’s left over paints. Last week, our guest student added his initials, another added her hand print, and one student bemoaned the excessive use of orange.
The June 12, 2008 edition of the Lovely County Citizen included an announcement of the exciting news that my artwork was selected to be a part of the 2009 Arkansas Artists Engagement Calendar. The calendar is published by the Governor’s Mansion Association and I am looking forward both to seeing the calendar in print and [...]
When looking to help direct people to your website or blog it is important to be sure to include the sorts of words a person seeking you out would use in a search. For my website and blog, relevant keywords include, art, painting, painter, artist, fine art, still life, Eureka Springs. You get the picture. [...]
Continuing our exploration into color theory, the homeschool students delved into red this week. I wanted them to look at color temperature within one color to demonstrate that all talk about color temperature is relative. There are cool reds with bluish undertones and all reds do not mix with blue to make purple! These students [...]
I had a too long trip out of town. I’m back and realizing that while I enjoy the intimacy and friendliness of life in this small town, I also enjoy some amazing luxuries that are hard to come by in other rural areas-like the high speed internet connection and great entertainment and arts. I had [...]
Last art class with the kids was full of wonderful surprises. The last thing they did was work with oil pastel on illustration boards and it was fun to see how different everyone’s art was. The boys did drawing of fantasy creatures and then went on to work with some modeling clay to create them. [...]
So, right as the kids were wrapping up their third sun prints, the ones made with washers and wires and toys, a friend pulled up to deliver this wonderful violin for me. Ken Scully is a fantastic violinist, of Heliotrope Trio fame, and he has been coming around to play cello with Robin on the [...]
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