HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: THE OTHER PEOPLE IN NORMAN ROCKWELL’S PAINTINGS By Jane Allen Petrick Jane Allen Petrick has written a wonderful book about Norman Rockwell, the artist, and his work. It focuses on the “invisible people” in his painting, the non-white… Read More ›
Share Your World Halloween 2022 It was the perfect Halloween. We spent the entire afternoon at the hospital. For once, it wasn’t me. It was Garry. He has glaucoma, an ailment with which medicine has made significant progress. Just for fun,… Read More ›
He was our “local” poet. I have always loved his poems, but even more since I moved to New England. He understood this place and its people. We have a portrait of him taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt hanging in our… Read More ›
I’ve been drawing ghosts in our graveyard since March. Finally, Halloween — All Hallows Eve or perhaps for some, Samhain — has come! The stones in this cemetery date back to the early 1700s. Surely there must be at least… Read More ›
I’ve been itching to draw for a while but either I was too busy and couldn’t spare the time or my hand was already sore and I didn’t want to press my luck. I’m amazed my hands still work considering… Read More ›
Blogging Insights NF # 55 — Headlines “On the average five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” — David… Read More ›
Forever the wealthy try to push the poor into being even poorer. I used to ask why but I think I know why. They do it because they can. Because they discovered we can’t stop them. They wouldn’t try this… Read More ›
Cee’s Midweek Madness: Pick A Topic From My Photo There are plenty of choices in this photograph.
The weather is getting to me. Going outside? Not happening until the heat breaks. Breathing is hard and grass pollen is up. So, in the face of the climate change that I keep hearing isn’t really here and yet it… Read More ›
I keep rediscovering the same thing: no matter what you see in the “bird book” or online, birds, even of the same species or from the same nest don’t look quite the same. The last Blue Jay I drew had… Read More ›
In this picture, you might notice that the chickadee does not have his little feet on the ground, yet he is also not flying. In the picture, he was hopping from one part of the feeder to the top of… Read More ›
Cee reminded me today of ducks and then I remembered swans and specifically, sleeping swans, floating on the pond with their long necks and heads tucked under a wing. And how those necks are so long, they don’t have to… Read More ›
It looks like a cat. I’ll improve with practice. It’s the first cat’s face that looks catlike. For some reason, this picture looks better on paper than it does in the photograph. The colors blend together well on paper, but… Read More ›
FIRST SUCCESSFUL ROSE AND TWO IMPERFECT BIRDS I have had a really hard time drawing a rose that looked like a rose. This annoyed me because I’m pretty good with flowers, even complicated flowers. But for some reason, roses with… Read More ›
AN ILLUSTRATION AND A FIRST It was a new “Provocative” question from Fandango. I was looking for a picture that showed fear. Everywhere I looked, it was someone else’s work. Drawings, photographs, posters. None of them seemed any better than… Read More ›
A HALF A YEAR OF SKETCHES The best sketches of each month since I started in January. My development has been a bit bumpy and lumpy. Still, six months into the project, I thought it was time for a review… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 