Today’s watercolor experiment: Inspiration I was trying to figure out how to make visible, a dream I had last night. It was, as most dreams seem, amorphous. I remember that I was in the process of creating something. It was a medical procedure, Frankensteinian, in a way. A body lay flat on a wooden bed, another, […]
My brother Mike is 65 today (11-11-14). He is my older brother, autistic, very low functioning, and has never said a word in his whole life. I began this blog to relate my experiences in trying to get to know him – a daunting task, when you consider I never knew if he knew who […]
It took me a little while to get back to doing my watercolor studies, after visiting the kids last week. I just got the studio back in order, unpacked, put everything away and… no ideas. Today’s watercolor experiment: I was flipping through a watercolor magazine and saw a poor reproduction of a painting by J.M.W. […]
Back home after a week’s visit to LA to see the kids and the grandchildren. During the past week I waxed (nearly) poetic about my granddaughter, Sidra. She’s ten years old and a wonderful young lady (see Another Interview with Sidra, Painting Lesson, Trepidation, House Painting). I have not spoken much about William. He is […]
Today was a travel day. It was about seven hours of driving. Nice though. We took ‘the 101’ up the coast from Los Angeles. It sure beats ‘the 5’, which is an inland route. Lots of farmland, but not the same as the view of the ocean. Sidra, our 10 year old granddaughter, didn’t want […]
We had the good fortune of going to the Getty Museum today. The traffic was terrible on the way there. My daughter told me the reason for this: nobody works in LA, so traffic is heavy, no matter what time of day one decides to take the freeway. There was a Rubens painting exhibit, which […]
Thus far, there was only one suggestion for a name for my mystery leaf of the other day. Thanks to Liz for the suggestion of nonogamboge, of the genus nonogambogia. Here is a picture of a different plant of the same species. I hope some of my botanical friends might have some suggestions. Thanks.
This post was supposed to be another painting lesson with my ten year old granddaughter, Sidra. We painted side-by-side the other day. I drew a little sketch of her home and did a bit of an underpainting while she was at school, hoping to engage her in adding to it later in the day when […]
Can anyone identify this leaf? I saw it along a trail on a hike in the Los Angeles area. Other information: It is on a bushy plant with brambles.
Sidra, my granddaughter, ten years of age, has a school assignment. She must read a biography and report about it. She also has to make or buy five objects related to the person and show them. She chose to report about Anne Frank. I asked Sidra what she already knew about her. She said that she […]
