artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

They take much longer to make than I expect though I am getting much faster. Tomorrow I will plant this bed with more sugar snap peas (I hope I like them) and either more arugula or some butter leAf. I think. My goal over the...

OMA

17 Sep 2010

Oh My Arugula! It’s already sprouting! Dang I didn’t expect that… I hope my sugar snap peas start popping up by Monday! I love arugula (and chocolate gelato). I discovered these when my…ummm (not X because that is too much like scratching someone’s eyes out...

The Exquisite Corpse photographic scavenger hunt (part II)

17 Sep 2010

Problem (challenge): Post one photograph you’ve shoot over the weekend inspired by your Exquisite Corpse sentence. Subproblems (parameters/challenge): Don’t stage or setup a scene Go for a walk (dorm, library, road, block) as long as it takes Don’t try to tell the whole story held...

Beds fully made

17 Sep 2010

Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells, And so my garden grows. (c1744) i don’t recall the context other than childhood, but nursery rhymes, fairy tales and fables were a typical mom time. So now i shall...

Morning fog soup; clear evening and freshly made beds

14 Sep 2010

I don’t think I have the proper instrument rating to drive through this, to which my dad had a good laugh as i explained my limitations. Location:University Dr E,College Station,United States But then to the BOX as the day passes… And I put everything to...

Others' thoughts worth cogitating

12 Sep 2010

“the very thing we wish to avoid, neglect, and flee from, turn out to be the ‘prima material’ from which all real growth comes from.” — Andrew Harvey “we do not need to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks are...

When good things happen

11 Sep 2010

I got an email Thursday that I was not expecting. I was really expecting it to come in the typically thin envelop bearing the single page and the lone paragraph that says, “we really appreciate your application BUT…” That envelop did not come. As I...

Visual elements as sound

08 Sep 2010

Laurens WASH Blogg: Explaining design through sound, umm what?: “Hey guys, heres all the videos of everyone doing their element of design by making some kind of noise. …” umm, what? point, line, shape, color, texture, value, and space…see if you can identify the element...

Museum of Fine Arts Houston looking for student volunteers
to help with Houston Portal Project, Cai Guo-Qiang’s Odyssey

07 Sep 2010

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Portal Project, Cai Guo-Qiang’s Odyssey needs student helpers. Photo by Seiji Toyonaga, Courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Cai Guo-Qiang producing a gunpowder drawing titled “Unmanned Nature,” Hiroshima, October 2008 Artist Cai Guo-Qiang (at left, in a portrait by...

Waiting for the “possible” tornado to finish passing through bryan/college station while…

07 Sep 2010

…watching my mom eating a nursing home version of chicken cordon blue. Ummm. That is not the sound of me saying, Yummmm…it is that Ummm, i ain’t so sure about that chicken fried surprise! But my mom is so good natured, she says yummm (no...

don’t respond kathy

06 Sep 2010

of course this is a response dang it it would not be loving to respond it would not be compassionate to respond it would not be forgiving to respond it assumes what i cannot know to respond of course this is a response just continue...

Some excellent WASHER posts!
if you’re at a lost for what to blog, here are some well done posts

06 Sep 2010

NEWSPAPER/CINDERBLOCK Ryan records his first days actual and mental process with a sense of humor. If It Can Go Wrong: Newspaper / Cinder Block Project: “…the last thing I had expected as the first thing I’d be doing on the first day… I suppose I...

for my baby brother! it’s genetic.

04 Sep 2010

no. no. no. i wont aaagggh. muahhaaaa muahhaaaa my baby brother and the fruit of his loins muahhaaaa and his lovely seriously genetically related daughter (on the right)…well except her awesomely gorgeous thick hair and leaning towards well done cow which she got from her...

Swimming in the shallow end
My first ever truly girlie jeans

02 Sep 2010

and they’re not levi’s. Aaaggghhh! Why do the girlie jeans I like cost 5x the sale price at which I buy my levi’s? Oh yeah, now I recall. For girl jeans, you pay extra if you do NOT want your butt cleavage exposed! YES, this...

Attacking dots with gusto,
constructive arguing,
and a sense of humor.

02 Sep 2010

Alina, Hunter, Mark, Jasmine, Amber and Kelsey professionally argue about the application of gestalt theory within their visual explorations Daniel, Henry, Edith, Michael, Geoffrey and JD do the same as did the rest of the WASHers. YES! Then there was the aftermath of mental and...

I like that they have a sense of humor

02 Sep 2010

Alina, Hunter, Mark, Jamine, Amber and Kelsey professionally argue about the application of gestalt theory within their visual explorations Daniel, Henry, Edith, Michael, Geoffrey and JD do the same. Then there is the aftermath of mental and sharpie exhaustion. Ha. I do like these guys....

Swimming in the shallow end
Levi's skinny jeans are just wrong!

01 Sep 2010

Who told the girls the refugee/heroine addict look was attractive? Maybe in junior high. Or a punk band. I don’t think they’re very attractive. They just look like I need to go eat a cow. Maybe they look good with those new long shirts (Oh...

Get up.

31 Aug 2010

. Location:Pine Valley Dr,College Station,United States0

Reading for Friday’s lecture

31 Aug 2010

kathy wash 2010

I’ve posted the reading that accompany this Friday’s lecture. Download it or read it online by Friday, September 10, when there will be a short quiz. It’s a little early, but I figured I’d post it sooner rather than later. Bill’s reading assignment #10

Hand tools and power tools

Hunter slicing and dicing. the sliced and diced. Courtney powers up. Let’s keep all our fingers please.0

Coloring between the lines

Edith rendering and, yes for this project, seriously coloring inside the lines Liz evaluating her thumbnails based on several gestalt principles Brian prepping the page for thumbnails roughs0

Students learning from their peers

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

…one of the most important ways of learning that will translate to the work environment of their futures. If I can some how facilitate this habit in them and create an environment that is safe, promoting collaboration in learning/problem solving, I will have done well....

New York Trip

2010 Fall Semester New York Trip: First Meeting August 30th at 5pm in Art Building C (Sculpture) Room 1010

swimming in the shallow end
Ha. An attempt to self snap one of the fam. Guess who is holding the camera? Naturally the one who is most visible. Oh well. I tried

i suppose i could doctor the image up and add the bottom of my dad’s face to my mom’s upper face and vice versa…nahh…too much work and they are really quite unique. Rollin’ at crestview. www.kathrynkelley.blogspot.com0

I keep forgetting to breathe

29 Aug 2010

Texture

27 Aug 2010

art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Here one group of students creates a sound composition trying to emphasize the specific element…texture. Students dissected the concept of composition to it’s basic elements. Composition, whether musical, written, performed, visual, taste, etc all have basic common elements–no matter the form of expression. Point, line,...

Brrrr

27 Aug 2010

I am so acclimatized to the heat that I went out this morning to look at the moon… Goose bumps. I am such a houstonian. and then a little warmth Location:College Farm Rd,Huntsville,United States0

Today’s morning moon

27 Aug 2010

From a cement landscaped construct0

swimming in the shallow end of the pool

26 Aug 2010

i drove a ways, adding to my route at the end of today, and was so looking forward to a huge arugula salad–dashed. not only was the HEB shelf bare, but the label indicating it would magically be restocked at this locale was gone as...