SnowBot










SnowBot



Faces in Places Flickr Pool



I take a pic, post it here, it looks like a robot stuck in a tree, google robot and come up with Roila.

Learn something new everyday.


Sketchbook: Heading into 2011









As I head into the new year I'm reading one of my Xmas pressies:  The Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker

A review by Ingrid Mida



Snow Pics

I seem to be seeing things in the snow this winter





Snow Gun





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Best Art Blogs
I know it's a long list, but it's lovely I'm included at Art Sediments, thank you.

Best Art Blogging Info

Katherine Tyrrell has some great observations in her blog entry: Reviewing art in 2010 and art blogging. An excellent read I highly recommend.

Best Christmas Decorating 1963



McCalls
 I like the candle holders AND the fireplace, not sure about the paper roses though.
How

Ugly Christmas Cookies


BUT







they were yummy, and just in case you're wondering, that is supposed to be a fragment of a greek statue, ahem!



Okay, so I didn't really stick to the theme of the life drawing groups cookie bake off.

SO!



Dam, I can't even find any uglier on google.

Humph!



Well, time to stop faffing and indulging in flibbertigibberty, I have STUFF to do.

Toodle Oooo!


Censorship at the Smithsonian


Whether it is good or bad art, or whether I like it or not, is really beside the point. The point is whether we should accept work being censored. 



"Late in November the Smithsonian’s head, G. Wayne Clough", bowed to pressure  from a fringe group and  "ordered the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC to ‘remove’ a video by David Wojnarowicz from a museum show called Hide/Seek. "



An

Snow and MORE Snow







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It's a winter wonderland here in Ohio and we are stuck indoors.

Reading: Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Movie: Brick Lane , and it was  as fabulous as the book. Here is a great review.

Sketchbook: just doodling.







Studio: Time to buzz and sketch out a new embroidery piece, and cut wood and prepare for a new painting.


Keep safe! Keep warm!

Henna Hand Embroidery





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Yea! finally finished by henna/mehndi style hand embroidery on tea stained linen. I'm really happy with how the design worked out. Sometimes even when I think doodles (or as some call zentangles)in my sketchbook aren't working there is something to be gained from them.



edited to add

I forgot to mention there is one similar for sale at IN A FRAME in town


Birdies One way or Another




Old Garage Yellow Springs, Ohio



"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly"

Langston Hughes



and this spuggy








Embroidered Bird



is flying on the wings of dreams.



Now if I could just put them all into some artwork :) Okay, I am still doing the henna embroidery hand so I am tied up.

BUT








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Winter Dreams




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"Winter Dreams"
by
Ritsu Katsumata








The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.
~Terri Guillemets

Hope this is true because this doll is watching the snowflakes.


jafabrit wish doll






Not quite mehndi embroidery








I say not quite because I'm not using traditional mehndi patterns. More of a mix of zentangle doodling, some mehndi elements, and including good luck motifs :) such as the nazar boncuk in the palm on this one.


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dmc floss on tea stained linen




 I had two in my "stitch gasp" exhibit and one sold before it got on the wall and the other the

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