I have boxes of images that have been cut from magazines and books. I also collect calendars that I have used and that have been sent to me over time. I have them broken down into people, animals, things, and places. When I decide to start creating a collage, I start looking through boxes in…
Category: art
There’s no such thing as ghosts.
image link I’m looking through old pictures for a project/submission I’m working on and came across the following. The artwork was created in a couple of poured acrylic classes that I went to with friends once and with family another time. The classes were held in the basement-turned-art gallery of one of the oldest still…
Bob Dylan, artist, featured in Smithsonian
Bob Dylan, One Too Many, 2020 Image courtesy of Bob Dylan (as published on Smithsonian’s web page) JUST came across this and haven’t read or looked at it yet, but oh my, does it look good. See Bob Dylan’s Cinematic Paintings, Welded Sculptures and More A comprehensive collection of the iconic songwriter’s visual art is on…
Draw a Bird Day — July 8, 2021 — Eastern Bluebird male
Birds are icons across cultures serving as feathered pantheon of our attributes and emotions. Sorrows plummet on crow’s wings. Joy’s infusion in a bluebird’s sighting. The drawing is the first time I’ve used a youtube how-to video to draw anything. It works pretty well especially since it can be paused and replayed. The dimensions are…
Call out to artists! Get your Shakespeare on!
Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, part of The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, is calling artists for submissions. I get their newsletter and in this week’s newsletter is the following: Calling all artists, Shakespeare lovers—everyone! Illuminate a Shakespeare-inspired page and send it to us. Basically, illuminated manuscripts feature text that is accompanied…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 26 — CraZed Institution, from Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die
And here we are, at the 26th day of 2021’s A to Z Challenge. It’s been a blast to create the daily posts and to read such enjoyable offerings from so many. Thank you for reading about the fabulous Jethro Tull and listening to some of their best tunes, commenting and for making the…
A2Z 2021 Jethro Tull Songs Day 25 “Year One” (Skating Away on the Ice of a New Day) from War Child (1974)
War Child is their seventh studio album, released in 1974. Much of the music from it was derived from past recording sessions of the band. “Only Solitaire” and “Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day” were left over from the summer 1972 writing sessions for what was to have been the follow-up…
Tao Talk 