The idea that you can have a potential garden in a paper envelope blows my mind. It is not a garden–yet. Can you get any more life-affirming than that? I remember little baggies bursting with the promise of tiny sweet carrots from the window sill (miraculous!!), or carefully tended, never-quite mature cucumbers or flowers. And […]
View post →Recently I presented my MA thesis work at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. A three day conference of people from different disciplines of learning, all discussing how semiotics – the science of signs – influences our world. There were philosophers, doctors, literary types, linguists, artists, environmentalists, psychologists, physicists, nuns, anthropologists […]
View post →This is a game at Columbia that Ronnie and I went to together. Â We had a great time and it was great watching the women play B Ball. Â There were a couple of pretty intense players. Â What a great afternoon we had at Columbia!
View post →After a lovely morning of drawing, Greg and I stopped for some lunch. This was the view from our table. -Despina
View post →Here is a drawing I did this time of year at the Bronx Zoo in NY. It is an incredible place and a real escape from the city. These wild dogs really made an impression on me. Though I was fortunate to have the opportunity to experience them, I do wish they were running free. […]
View post →tIme  fOR  SoME gOod Ol’  hOMeMaDE aPpLE  piE … ….. dOn’t FoRGet  the ICe CReaM! WHat CoULD be BeTteR? Drawing by Michele •       Grandma Ople’s ApPLE Pie REcipE
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I have always loved anything Americana (revealing, of course, my origin from outside, where the myth shines more enticingly. This is a still life composed of some farm life essentials--bales of cloth, an iron, soapflakes, and a vessel that looks like it might have been doubling as an umbrella-stand and door-holder for ninety years before [...]View post →
A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend a performance by the great blues singer, Dr. John, at a small venue in the East 60’s in Manhattan. There he was in all his purple velvet glory, belting them out in a little chic enclave with tapestry wallpaper and crystal chandeliers. I loved the […]
View post →Another Central Park dance skater gone wild! Â It happens…a lot. Â They can’t seem to help themselves. Â They just have to go a little nuts now and then and I’m more than happy to be there watching and drawing when it happens! Â Keep going wild, and I promise, I’ll keep drawing!
View post →Just as my fellow ODAD blogger, Kati, I am posting about my summer vacation. I am really-really-not a winter loving kind of person, so the closer it gets, the more I cling to the memories of the hot grecian (summer!) sun and the nightly cool breezes from the aegean sea. Since I can’t let go […]
View post →here is a drawing I made while looking at some orchids. hope it brightens your Monday morning! by Greg Betza
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View post →Basilique du Sacré-CÅ“ur. —Dominick
View post →“My world before me is perfect. There’s nowhere else I want to be, Except laying underneath the stars Hand in hand, you and me.” by ShoeBowl
View post →Don’t ask me what made me bring pastels on vacation to Germany with me (one guess how Germans reacted to the artist dragging the billowing chalk dust cloud wherever she went). This is a sketch i made in almost complete darkness in another one of Ludwig II’s lairs, this time of the golden boat floating […]
View post →One of the wonderful things about living in NYC is that opportunities come up to attend musical and cultural events. This is from a concert I had the good fortune to hear at Carnegie Hall. I love drawing musicians and performers; they get lost in the moment and the music and are so totally engrossed…the […]
View post →Hy-dran-ge-a: Â New Latin “water vessel” : HYDRO- +Greek angos, vessel, pitcher. The hydrangea is my favorite flower and it’s in full bloom all over the city: in Central Park, in beautiful ceramic pots in front of high rises and in window boxes in front of old brownstones! Â I don’t know why I love it so, […]
View post →I read that there are only two underwater Calderas on Earth. The one in China is under uninhabitable area, and the one in Greece lies below one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world, Santorini. Underneath this boat on the bottom of that sea is a deep crater that stretches many miles wide that […]
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