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Category Archives: arts/crafts (grown-ups’)
The Artist is at Work
This is a long but uncomplicated and happy post ;) Yesterday Amie told me” “I want to see all the people and the cities and all the things in the whole world, and listen to all the music” [we were listening to a Mozart symphony]. “I want to be a music listener, and an artist, …
A Rose
Our new house – bought a year ago – came with two rose bushes, and this being our first Spring here, we got to see the roses for the first time. Amie also got to draw and paint one: The context was thus: Grandmother sitting by, also drawing the rose, and grandfather, on the other …
Pottery by Mama and Amie
Amie visited my pottery class a couple of weeks ago, just for 10 minutes while DH picked up pizza down the road. We were glazing but I fired up a wheel for her and stuck on a blob of clay and centered it, adding lots of water. Then she put her little hands on the …
What’s Going On? More Portrait Sketching
Sorry for the silence, we’re so busy, working in the garden, on our guestroom, and playing and crafting, and not much energy left for blogging. There is more portrait sketching. Amie made several fast sketches of Thhaam: And here is a glimpse of Thhaam’s portrait of Amie:
Arts and Crafts on Robin Hill
Amie’s grandmother arrived to stay for 5 weeks. Amie brought a bouquet of buttercups to the airport and rode the escalators while waiting for Thamm to appear. They settled into a regimen right away, part of which is “school”, “where Thamm pretends to be a teacher, and I pretend to be a student, and our …
Learning a New Skill: Pottery
It’s raining which is good: the soil needs it. So I’m stuck inside, with some time to catch up on research, and to show off my creations from my first session of wheel-thrown pottery! Here they are, thrown, dried, kilned and glazed: Their beautiful colors (glazes made by my teacher, Lisa Dolliver) are hard to …
If I Show You Ours, Will You Show Me Yours?
… Craft Supplies! This is ours (click on the picture to see it annotated in Flickr) Take a picture of yours, put it on your blog and leave a link here in the comments.
My First Pot
I got to bring home my first pot, which I threw last week. I had made the bottom too thin and it cracked while drying, so we gave it up as a lost cause and didn’t even trim, let alone fire it. But it was fun to bring it home to show Amie, who said: …
Winter Wednesday: Trees and Their Bark
This challenge is really called “Tree Silhouettes,” but as the trees on our property and in our neighborhood are so crowded together, most of them haven’t grown into the typical shapes they would have had, had they been in an open space where they didn’t have to vie for sunlight with others. Except for the …