I have been very slowly working my way through this novel for months. I was reading it during our Winter Reading Session, and now have finally finished its 560 pages. That’s longish, but it shouldn’t have taken this long to read it. (The Weight of Ink is such an excellent title, isn’t it?) This book
Category: Open Arts
Baking grounds me. Making pies ties me to generations of women in my family who all made fabulous pies. I have tweaked my own pie making – whole wheat crust, less sugar, unsalted butter instead of crisco – but I feel so genetically connected when I make a pie. This one is pretty yummy. And
Hi All! I’ve decided that since there is another full week of house-arrest style nation wide LOCKDOWN in Nepal, it would be fun to make another animated minute long episode featuring Goodu Bird and Cat. There was a request to see inside Goodu Bird’s nest, and so I decided to hand draw the nest. I’m
My friends and co-conspirators, Apologies for my absence these last weeks. My earth shifted on its axis with the death of my mother. Now, I am finding my way back, grounding myself in the real. Making ghee, bread, soup. Reorienting. Always lovely to find you all here…
I discovered this site because I receive group e-mails from a cousin who is now home schooling her young two daughters due to the coronavirus. Their grandmother sent this site for the children. I spent hours yesterday checking on this pair of eagles hatching their eggs. It can take up to 24 hours or more
In order to get images on the website more easily (based on the comments by Teri and Barbara in the mail art thread) a simple copy and paste will work! I clicked on an image on the internet, hit copy (right clic k and then copy…or Ctrl c…or Command c for mac), and then just
I’m attending (online, of course) a “Call to Art” Un-conference organized by Cindy Ingram for art educators. I hopped onto Cindy’s email list right after she spoke to the Meadows Museum’s docents during a training session. She made a call for videos contributors to the Un-Conference, and people responded. Not all of the subject matter
I’ve been inconsistently working on animation for a little over a year now. I made a couple little things last year as a valentines gift for S, and remembering the lessons I learned, was able to make something a little bit better looking this year. I put it on youtube to make it easier to
This lovely selection of Dorothy Parker’s short stories is a snapshot into the mundane everyday life in the early mid 20th Century. A timely read as we all refocus on our own mundane lives and disruption to our social connections. Parker takes the small aspects of lives, ones often taken for granted and celebrates them
As some of you know I’ve been studying white since the turn of the year and it has been a fruitful search — I have so many examples of observations around white, and I’ve had the pleasure of friends writing to me about their reflections of white and other fun surprises. I got white eggplants
