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  • One of "Those" Days

    This is turning into one of "those" days.I'm blaming it on the cat.She persists in purring and looking cute no matter how irritable I become. She's purring sweetly in my lap, completely oblivious to my ire. She chased me…

  • Rainy Day

    It's a cold, bleak, rainy, lonely day. I decided to make brownies, because that's the best thing to fix a cold, bleak, rainy, lonely day.Problem is, now I have a dish full of brownies. And now I'm not hungry.Sigh . . . .…

  • More Painterly Endeavors

    Have I mentioned that I love gouache?Here is another painting that I whipped up this afternoon. I really can't believe how quick gouache is! This is in process.Here it is complete: My favorite model!Actually, I'm not pos…

  • Inevitable

    It is a sad and inevitable fact that when a girl decides to venture out for a walk looking like the leftovers of a natural disaster--unbrushed bushy hair, smudgy face, most hideous of all brown painting sweaters--she is …

  • In Which Our Heroine Bravely Refuses to Accept Defeat

    Last summer I undertook a portrait commission that utterly defeated me.And I mean utterly defeated me.It was an acrylic commission . . . naturally. Despite my best efforts, pleading, demonstrating that I am more skilled …

  • Drawing People Class: Final Pieces

    So here are some of the results of my Drawing People class for adults. Not all of my students were present, so I don't have many to show, but you can get an idea of what we were up to anyway.First, the one teenager's pie…

  • Busy Weekend

    For the most part lately I haven't felt as though I've had all that much to write about. Just more teaching, painting, cleaning, thinking about moving, etc. Not all that interesting.Then a busy weekend happens, and I don…

  • Progress?

    One gets to the point where one feels as though one is not making one lick of progress . . . .Doesn't one? Does she look like she has a milk mustache to you?Oh well. It's coming along, slowly but surely. And now that my …

  • Lacking Mother

    My mother is gone from me once more.Life is hard.But here are some pictures from our fun carousing last Sunday with the Smiths! Here we are, Michelle, Mummy, Yours Truly, and Sharayah. Michelle and Sharayah are old frien…

  • Lecturing to an Adult Class on a Monday Evening

    AE: "You need to remember . . . yes, it's very important that you . . . what I mean to say is . . . you really need to get into the habit of . . . ."Poignant pause.AE: "Forgive me! I cannot lecture over Elton John!"And s…

  • Saturday Fun

    This Saturday, I dragged my mother along to an art class at the Learning Center. It is a "Fairy Tale and Fantasy" theme class, in which the students are drawing "The Adventures of Sir Eglamore." Last Saturday, they learn…

  • Time Spent with Old Friends

    Today, Mum and I drove out to visit my friend Allison and her mom, Ruth, and of course Kim Nelson as well.AE (to Allison): "It's nice to get the moms together to play now and then."Allison: "Oh, yes. Quite."Our moms and …

  • Art and Artists Various

    Time for a new art post!First of all, my new favorite picture by a very talented young gentleman friend: This was drawn by my friend, Daniel. Recently he was sick with pneumonia, so I sent him a giant white tiger--becaus…

  • Missing Grace Girls

    I'm missing my Grace girls.It was really nice to have people here from my world for a while.I mean, I definitely have a world here now too. But Campbell was definitely never my world, while Grace was very much mine. And …

  • In Which Our Heroine Bravely Samples Raw Squid

    My dear Laura Freer possesses a pair of eagle eyes that, whilst the troop of us were driving to church on Sunday, spotted a tiny Steak and Sushi restaurant tucked away by Harris Teeter.Laura: "We must go!"So of course, w…

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