October 2010

A series distended 10 foot nipples…it is the interior I find most fascinating…0

Wash away.

Like the Wash Away (reprise) at end of list. Haven’t listened through the others. I got troubles oh, but not today Cause they’re gonna wash away They’re gonna wash away And I have sins Lord, but not today Cause they’re...

Oops

Well so much for my internal debate for a phone upgrade. Decision has been reach via Umm i just dropped (accidentally…really) and shattered the face of my phone enough so pieces are falling out. I think that qualifies as a...

Give me a compound sliding miter or table saw and I'll figure it out…

But what the heck am I suppose to do with a burner? So I bought this one pan cookbook. Ha. One pan multiple cutting boards, knives, a sink and what the heck is allspice which I did not have. Ah....

That’s pretty good…for a girl!

29 Oct 2010

WASH 2010

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aaaaagggh. sitting on my bum all day
researching first wave feminist art

funniest thing (arrogant pleasure on my part) is when you image google search some of my art heros who are to be included in an upcoming lecture, eva hesse and lee bountecue, images of my work actually pop up on...

Ha. You guys thought I was kidding

about grilling everyday. It is especially nice and colorful after sewing tire tubes all day. i sent my grand girl friends (60+ years of wisdom and grace) pictures of my last two meals with a standing grilling and sunset invitation....

Gray morning on my porch

Sipping diet coke, actually writing the old fashion way, scratching pen to paper, a little thumb typing here while trying to get myself to pick up and read my post modernism art text in prep for a lecture I am...

Watching this while tasting that

all the while sitting indian style on my make shift lawn furniture made up of industrial sized wooden discs with the wind in my hair in my wife beater white tank. ahhhhh the breeze and steak really couldn’t be any...

gosh. i was just going to post some student samples
but there were to many wonderful ones

25 Oct 2010

art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

students spent a week or so exploring mark making and then brought a quote of their choosing into the work. the goal was to express the quote in a way that mimics actual speech in creating breath (space) and emphasis,...

gosh. i was just going to post some samples
but there were to many wonderful ones

family gathering celebrating my gram’s 99 years lived (and still kicking and walking and thinking and doing crossword puzzles and craft projects) over pizza

Really she requested pizza for her party. son (mi’ dad), gram (99 years old today), great grans (niece-nicole and nephew-troy) grandson (mi’ brother-paul), great grands (my niece and nephew) daughter in law (mi’ mom), grandson (mi’ brother) no she...

naming me with its soul quieting sounds
of stillness

faintly the remembered wind whispers naming me with its soul quieting sounds of stillness it gently touches flutteringly with its caress across my dried salt streaked cheeks and as i allow it, the space opens to me even from yesterday...

excerpt from exquisite heart: cultivating compassion

23 Oct 2010

“I forgive you, completely and utterly. May you be forgiven. May all of your apparent mistakes and shortcomings be dissolved and trouble you no more, and may my misperceptions of mistakes and shortcomings within you be erased or made irrelevant...

garden, mundane ramblings

seconds have been harvested and eaten!

22 Oct 2010

yeah arrugula! sugar snaps are looking a little peeked — apparently i was suppose to be feeding them (fertilizers)…i just thought that was why i bought fertile soil. anyway i have since fed them and hope they green up a...

Color/Texture project begins Monday 10/25

21 Oct 2010

WASH 2010

Read Color Theory reading assignment (before 10/22). Read 2D project 3 texture/color handout. Collect 5 sets of 3 color swatches (paint section at a hardware store) and bring to class Monday. Choose color sets for each of the following based...

Reading before Friday, Oct 22

20 Oct 2010

garden, mundane ramblings

WASH 2010

Color Reading0

Firsts

19 Oct 2010