Category: My Portfolio

• What a Relief!

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  July 31, 2014

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  Art, Drawing, Inspiring People, My Portfolio, Personal History, Relief Printing, Woodblock Printing

  Since I can remember, I have loved to draw. Although I could sit for hours with a pencil as a kid, it’s even more fun now that I have been practicing for years and have the skills to put on paper what dwells in my imagination, or what is right in front of me. Drawing what…

• Fox Spirit I am Paying Attention!

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  October 31, 2013

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  American Indian, botanical gardens, flora and fauna, Ideas, Local Roaming, My Portfolio, Red Fox, Soul Food, Wanderings

  Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) are common in North America. Indeed, Red Fox is one of the most geographically widespread of the carnivores in the world, not endangered by any stretch of the imagination. But these wild, night wanderers are not often seen. When you are fortunate enough to see one, even from a distance, it’s…

  

• WanderNotes

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  September 28, 2013

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  Art, flora and fauna, Ideas, Living Simply, Local Roaming, My Portfolio, Personal History, Soul Food, Wanderings

  WanderNotes 28 September 2013    Northbound 35 morning – point au roche to chazy 44 degrees, 92% humidity cold on the bike… the canada geese leading me north, talking, talking, talking as they fly and land and take off and land and eat corn… fog clinging to the corn, and still being made over the…

  

• In Raptures…

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  February 25, 2013

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  Art, Decorative Arts, Design, Drawing, Group Shows, My Portfolio, Personal History

  Being a big fan of Jane Austen, I recently re-read Pride and Prejudice… Then my sister gave me a copy of another entertaining tale, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. While working diligently on my table, a quote from that book stated by Miss Bingley in Chapter 10 keeps popping into my head (in a faux English accent,…

  

• Mandala

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  February 19, 2013

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  Art, Decorative Arts, Design, Drawing, Group Shows, My Portfolio, Personal History, Soul Food

  [muhn-dl-uh]–noun 1. In Oriental art… a schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity. 2. In Jungian psychology… a symbol representing the effort to reunify the self. The Arms & Legs Auction is an engaging…

  

• Magnificent Hearst Castle

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  January 30, 2013

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  Art, Decorative Arts, Drawing, historic sites, Inspiring People, My Portfolio, Soul Food, Wanderings

  Imagine a palace filled with wonderful artwork from foreign lands, incredibly detailed and ornate tile work, opulent swimming pools surrounded by graceful figurative sculptures – all placed in the lovely setting of rolling hills stretching down to the Pacific Ocean. It was built in the 1920s-1940s, and is an achievement that will never be equaled,…