Archive for the ‘hidden art’ Category

Breaking Free

Mike Is Being an Artist Again
From a Sonlight buddy’s blog. I love to read about folks my age who are rediscovering their lost passion for art.
(While your visiting listen to the fiddle music. It’s great!)

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I am a creative creature!

I was too embarrassed to actually submit my blog name for Art Every Day Month 2008. I much prefer to stay out of the spotlight and just do my thing. I’m in awe when I see the kinds of things the others create and pretty much feel like the poor relative living [...]

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My Partner in Art

My Flower Child (age 10 years 10 months and 29 days) helped me got into the groove today. She is my artist in residence and general all-around creative kid. She loves to create using whatever she can find. She has lots of cool art supplies, but the key word there is ‘whatever [...]

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Hidden Art: This Guy has GOT it!

Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie
Kratzer’s basement suggests that the great cultural influences wandered out of college humanities class — here a Churchill for eloquence during harsh times, a Joan Crawford for cinematic vampiness, Holmes and Poirot for great literary characterization — and set up shop together in the carefully hand-drawn markings of [...]

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Art Every Day Month 2008

I have decided to commit to Art Every Day Month 2008 which starts (eek!) tomorrow, November 1st.  I’m probably more suited to NaNoWriMo, but my kind of writing is more along the lines of short, non-fiction pieces and the thought of attempting to write a novel in a year, let alone a month, is enough [...]

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Art Every Day Month (AEDM)

“Every one is creative and that can come out in anything from photography to cooking to painting.” I’ve found a kindred spirit! And I don’t even know her name. Such is the blogging world. The blog is Creative Every Day…Everyday Creative and the quote is from her bio.

The Clothes LineThis is an original [...]

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Hidden Art

I’ve shamelessly borrowed the title of this page from the book written by Edith Schaeffer of the same name. Mrs. Schaeffer and her daughter, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, are my much loved mentors and encouragers and I’ve only met them through their writing. The fact that I’ve never met them and yet they’ve had such a [...]

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