The New Money!

Look what I got from my daughter (Nohonanimai.com) for Mothers' Day!  Obviously Jane La Fazio has gone into the banking business...or do you suppose Holle cleverly raided Jane's blog?  I won't tell.  Part of my next class is paid for!

What Is it?

Went sketching in a salvage yard in Berkeley.  Bet you can't guess what this ancient contraption on the left was used for...

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You would have seen it next to you in the dentist's chair!  I showed it to my dentist and he said it reminded him of when he went to school.

Waterworks (Photoart)

Art Alive SDMA

Sketched at Art Alive today before we were so sweetly interrupted by a lovely woman museum attendant who informed us we need a 'sketching permit' and can only use pencil or crayon - no ink or watercolor brush, not even the water-containing brushes which need no spillable liquid.  Too bad.  No photos either, even without flash.  It's a hard life.

The Art Alive flower exhibit has some lovely pieces.  This one won second prize.  I had time to color in the background painting and my idea was to superimpose the flower arrangement in ink on the spot.  When things came to a halt I had to hastily pencil it in and failed to do it justice later at home, but the experience is recorded!

Not Harbor Island

    
 This sketch is called that because it's where I was but it doesn't look like that! I got a little OCD on the buildings and couldn't stop until I ruined 'em.  You know how that goes...

Hang in There With Me!

Art Therapy

Grrrr!  This is how I feel about blogspot.com's. new way of uploading photo posts.  I'm ready to fold up my blog and find my way out of the jungle.  It's got me all involved with Picasa, obviously a hostile tribe who speaks another language.  I may have to eat my words...Grrrowr!  

The Black and The White

                 War

                  Hunger

                  Worship

                  The End

Here, Catch!

Visitor from Space

Enlightened Nude

Leaf Me Alone (Series)

These look best on a white background, but...

Windows for Emily

"Wild nights -  wild nights,
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!"- Emily Dickinson 1830-1886

The (water)Color of Spring

A House of a Different Color

Should we make up a story about who lives in these houses?   Is one sad and the other happy?  Or do they just have different color skins?  Is there a Princess imprisoned in the tower?  Does the mother bake apple pie?  Could this be a Houschach Test?       

Late Bunny Appearance

Just goes to show what you can do with a little gouache.  This is my friend Jean's companion, Frida, AKA for these purposes, "The Easter Trollop".  The artistic ears (by Jean) would do Van Gogh proud!

Hot, Cross Bunny

  
  This is what happens when I draw my own conclusions...

Fishing Birds

Small watercolor of cormorant fishing in China

Passing

This can be either the beginning or the end of a relationship: a first meeting, a last goodbye, a passing from one phase of our relationship with life to another.  Today, after a long March, we meet April!