Tag: art education

• My Sketchbook, A Silent Movie

  

  pocket edition in the morning light 😊. You can also view this short silent movie on YouTube if you prefer. (That YouTube is just for blog videos or talk shows, and I link them here. My Yoga YouTube is a separate Channel linked on my About page.) 💕 Love, Jade

  03/22/2023 8:24 am

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• Wild Sumac: Look, Don’t Touch, and Definitely Don’t Eat

  

  This is a sketch of the wild sumac growing outside my window. In North America, this plant is poisonous, but in the Middle East you can eat them and may find the berries made into dressing in certain classic dishes. I sketched the sumac quickly as an art lesson I’d found that looking at shapes…

  12/29/2022 7:49 am

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• Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)

  My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night…

  12/05/2022 12:53 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a…

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• Peeko’s Puffy Kitten Face, A Couple of New Art Supplies

  

  A rainy Sunday evening: my fine art collector and curator,🐱Peeko viewing again my latest drawing I finished yesterday before it is placed inside an art folder for safekeeping. I was careful not to hold it too close to the kitten. He made a little tiny grunt of delight as he looked into one little part…

  11/27/2022 6:30 pm

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• I Begin a New Drawing

  

  Thanksgiving update: I just woke from a long morningtime nap, sun on my face, so refreshing; my drawing in progress came to mind. This is what it has been so far 🙂 In progress drawing, first session. (My small paper yesterday came to be a practice paper.) I draw the imagined scene now on 9…

  11/24/2022 10:00 am

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