IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME: BAKING GINGERBREAD COOKIES

Jolly Ranchers Windows

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME

Tonight, I will be making gingerbread cookies. I just bought molasses, and jolly ranchers (for the glass windows.) But first things first: big cup of Christmas brew. No, not coffee, not this time. Now is the time for holiday tea: "Earl Gray."

"Scilent Night at My Home in Sunrise -- Probably Christmas 2010"

Wait a minute...I don't really feel like baking. I feel like reading children's books with large print and beautiful illustrations.

I LOVE WINTER ARTWORK

Winter Scenery with Houses, Two Trees and a Fence; pastel and colored pencils on black construction paper; 9x12 in. Done on December 12 as a demo for Children's Creative Drawing class.

THE GRAND MARNIER AND A HAT -- PAINTING

"The Grand Marnier Bottle and  Madame M.", 2011; acrylic on canvas, 16x20 in.

THE TRANSFORMATIONS IN PAINTINGS

THE ARM SUPPORT OF A PLASTIC GARDEN CHAIR BECOMES A BOTTLE

UNFINISHED PAINTINGS

This is my "Lady with the Grand Marnier Bottle" that started as "The Lady Wearing a Hat and Sitting in a Plastic Garden Chair".
The process of painting this painting is taking me on a jurney to use my unexplored talent for discovering new and important persons, feelings, places.

"we are what we think"

--We are what we think
All that we are arises with our
thought
With our thoughts we make the
world.
Speak and act with an impure mind
And trouble will follow you
As the wheel follows the ox that
draws the cart.


We are what we think
All that we are arises with our
thought
With our thoughts we make the
world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
And happiness will follow you
As your shadow, unshakable.

--THE DHAMMAPADA

Found in "A Book of Angels" by
Sophie Burnham; p.209

MY HALLOWEEN

I like Halloween. That's why I did all those things: baked Halloween snacks in the shape of fingers with dirty fingernails; bought the witch hat with hair attached; carved the pumpkin; dressed as Miss Margo the Witch; baked brownies with gummy worms; went to work and brought stuff to cheer my students; gave out candy to trick-o-treaters; took photos and made drawings with Halloween themes.

Halloween party

 Witch with a dirty tooth -- photo by a student

Halloween snacks

Gummy worms brownies

Ghost House -- this year's jack-o-lantern

Last year's jack-o-lantern

Peacefull classroom

Spooky fruits photo

Drawing for the Halloween Workshop flyer

Photo of Miss Margo-Witch  taken by a student

Halloween treats buffet

Wonderful spider web artwork

Student working on her artwork

Student working on his artwork

At the bakery "Margo"

I look like a pirate

SCARY LITTLE GHOST

"Scary Little Ghost", 2008:  9x12"; graphite, charchoal & pastels on paper

SPANISH MOSS & LIVE OAK SKETCH

Every year, around October, I look for acorns. There are plenty of Live Oak trees where I live. The Spanish moss hangs from their branches and sometimes, when the right amount of light falls on the mossy limbs, they look like they are being visited by angels.

COFFEE UNDER THE PALM TREE

“Sketches from my Journals”, © 2011 Malgorzata Kawashima

I like that there are 24 hour coffee places, and that the coffee they are selling is drinkable, unlike the coffee served by some diners that are "never closed", but dare to sell bad brew. In tribute to the places that sell a decent cup of java, I am posting a couple of sketches produced in a parking lot of one such establishment while hydrating myself with their medium latte with one sugar:)

"HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE" DRAWING WORKSHOP

From top: "Halloween Land" &  "Sleepy Blue Pumpkin" by me,

Marine and Chantal with their 'Halloween Adventure' artworks.

"LITTLE REMBRANDTS": MY STUDENTS' PAINTINGS

From top: Savannah's "Mirabell"; Scarlett's "My Garden"; Scarlett's "Still Life with Peppers"

SKETCHES OF ANIMALS FOR CHILDREN'S CLASS

 Toddy Cat - Asian Palm Civet

Elephant

Giraffe 

Zebras

AUGUST 15 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 19, 2011; DAN PEARL BRANCH - STUDENTS' ART

 Akia's "Summer Flowers"

 Elisa's "View From My Window"

 Veronica's "Flower Teapot"

Ana's "Sunset In Florida 2"

DEDICATING DRAWING FROM MY SKETCHBOOK TO MY MOM

 "Early A.M. Feb.27.2007: Oxalis And Other Plants"

Dedicated to the life and the memory of Helena Samek.

PAINTING WITH SPONGE TECHNIQUE

"BOUQUET OF IMAGINARY FLOWERS IN A TIN PITCHER", 2011;  watercolor pencils on Cotman Watercolor H.P. surface Take Bristol

 25.5 cm x 18 cm

"DINOSAUR LAND" SKETCH

Vegetarian

HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE DRAWING

  I Made this drawing for my  Weekend Youth Drawing Workshop. 
 HALLOWEEN A d v e n t u r e



Landscape with Cornucopia

Landscape with Cornucopia; mixed media and collage on paper;

9x12"

SKETCHES OF CORNUCOPIA BASKET AND TIN PITCHER