Tuesday’s painting class with the homeschooled students took an interesting turn this week, and like most fun projects, the idea for the structure of this class came together from pieces of items which had previous uses and from the inspiration of friends. I had torn the ceiling tiles off the living room and split the [...]
Could it be a fairy? It is certainly something magical.
It is a luna moth.
It lost a part of itself and that is why it looked so much like a fairy, I think.
I recently met someone who told me about a couple of astronauts who live nearby. They had viewed earth from space and wondered about [...]
The ceiling fell down! Martin and I were prying a very small piece of wood when all of a sudden a giant chunk of drywall came crashing down and I was covered in a shower of pink fluff. Unfortunately, it was fiberglass insulation and I’m still a bit prickly. Fortunately, the hole provided great access [...]
Things are changing rapidly around the house. After I moved all the stuff around again and got things organized and Robin took a bunch of stuff to the Dogie Shop thrift store, it just seemed right to tear off all the drywall and make a big mess. So now the future hall has been opened [...]
I was accepted into the Fayetteville Arts Festival and this will be the first time I have done this show since they moved it indoors. Last year I missed the application process altogether, finding out that it already had been juried by listening to other artists grumble that they had done it for years and [...]
This photo shows the new opening between the living room and the sunroom where the pair of windows were removed. The smaller, former doorway seen here will be closed off as will the large opening to the third bedroom/office. The next photo shows the white paint on the ceiling and a test of the yellow [...]
Horton Hears a Who was the feature at the Lucky 13 Outdoor Cinema last night and friends big and little dressed up in their Sunday Who best. Toucan Jam played music and got the crowd moving and then there was a contest for the best costumes. The little kids always score big points for cuteness [...]
They’ve done it again! When time rolls around to paint the table, I beg bits of leftover paint from the kids’ palettes because I cannot resist dry brushing to see what interesting patterns pop up.
Yesterday’s painting class was loads of fun for the kids because other than the stipulation that they work with a palette of complementary colors they were free to paint whatever they chose. First we looked at the many paintings I have done which are based on a palette of complements and then we played with [...]
The Eureka Springs Artists Studio Tour is coming up fast! We had a meeting a couple nights ago to discuss the distribution of the map brochures which came in quite early this year. The brochures contains a description and a photo of each artist and a sample of their work. There is also a map [...]
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 [...]
a work in progress