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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

THE GRAND MARNIER AND A HAT -- PAINTING

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

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

"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

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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