I went to the farm yesterday thinking I would have a moment to draw bit of winter scenery for today’s post. Of course the day goes askew in one way or another and I found myself en route with my drawing materials on my desk at home. I thought I would do a still life […]
View post →Oliver’s starting to wonder what happens to his work when he goes to sleep at night, lol! It’s the perfect opportunity to tell him I think Jake visits from Neverland while he’s dreaming because he’s such an inspiration. Who know’s? The Easter Bunny might not be too far away 😉 – Michele
View post →My little guy was creatively playing with his watercolors yesterday. If you’ve ever spent time painting with a toddler you can whip through a sketchbook pretty quickly. There we were surrounded by pages of wet “interpretive” fine works of art sprinkled throughout the entire kitchen waiting to dry for the balance of the day. Saving […]
View post →Or is it spelled mangoes? Never sure. All I know is, a few years back when I visited St. Thomas with Margaret, her brother’s house had a mango tree behind it. Every morning, we would take our coffee out on to the porch and pull a mango off the tree for breakfast. So heavenly. It’s […]
View post →I don’t usually paint like this, but I really enjoyed slowing down to look, and taking my time putting down layers of color…it was kind of a meditative experience. It’s interesting to see what colors are really there and how your eye interprets them. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Along with family and friends, I always find […]
View post →I’ve been playing around with drawing on the I-Pad. Here’s an avocado – one of a few pieces of produce I chose to ‘paint’. To see the rest click here   ~Despina
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Last weekend I stumbled across the Met Museum’s scrumptuous dinner-table display of courtly Austrian porcelains set with a colorful arrangement of sugarpaste flowers, gilded sugar-mold artichokes, bowls teetering with candy walnuts and apricots and blossoms and lacy sugar-“temples”. I felt like a kid staring at all those goodies, never wishing to touch any of that […]
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