Maybe it’s the summer season — with all its beach themed decorations — or maybe it’s been a long love affair for me, but I have been having a lot of fun playing with nautical knots lately. I started with Read more…
When I was a student, I used to spend hours drawing from photographs in magazines. This is a time honored practice taught in art classes with the one drawback that while you are learning skills, you aren’t creating something new, but rather copying someone else’s composition. Is it art? Do you have the right to sell it? (more…)
On a garden tour in Cambridge, I learned to appreciate the use of gardening to fill-in and texturize small spaces.
One garden consisted of an allee — the kind of silver birch tree walkway found in Europe, usually leading away from a house and out to some spectacular view in nature. In Cambridge, it was a small alley between several houses. From the outside you didn’t recognize it as a planned planting, but from the narrow walkway inside, you had the pleasure of something quiet and hidden away from the busy, urban streets outside. (more…)
As I was sitting there in the sunlight blowing bubbles high up into the air on a recent 90 degree summer day, I couldn’t help but admire the way the light bounced around with so many colors and refractions. As Read more…
The line, the line, the line! It swirls and twirls forming shapes without thought, without worry or care. Pencil to paper, colored markers on acetate, black ink on textured surfaces—it doesn’t matter. The only thing that does matter is the pleasure of developing your creation. (more…)
Designer cocktails… for my last birthday, the bartender at a fancy restaurant created a drink for me based on brandied cherries (a personal favorite of mine). It was very good, not too sweet, and I got to name it. But it Read more…
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