http://artwalaroad.com creativity, drawing, art, teaching art, making art Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:19:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello, my dear readers! Here I am, however fleetingly. I want to say hi and that I hope you're all well and enjoying sunshine, fresh strawberries, lemonade, a fine novel, walking outside and eating the occasional bowl of ice cream. All is well here and the summer ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/07/01/the-beginning-of-summer/ I know, I know, I'm on summer sabbatical and I was only going to post at the beginning of the month. But things keep happening and I wanted to make note of this. One afternoon last week we went to see JK Rowling give a speech at the ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/06/09/more-from-jk-rowling/ I'm on blog sabbatical but promised to check in the beginning of each month this summer. As chance would have it, I discovered today that Yoko Ono is starting a blog called 100 Acorns, ideas for bringing awareness to creating peace on the planet. Forty-four years ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/06/03/yoko-peace/ As I'm not going to be posting for a while I'd like to leave you with this video about consumption on our planet and how we might all contribute to making this a green planet again. The video is by Annie Leonard ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/28/a-new-earth-2/ My dear, beloved readers—When I started my wee blog two years ago I wanted to write about teaching my art class. I'd been an artist all my life but had never taught art before. I'd never made a living from anything but art and had explored it in ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/27/goin-fishin/ The art class met for the last session on Saturday. We'll break now until mid-September. There were only two students who were able to make it as it's a holiday weekend here and the others had trips planned or other gatherings. For the first part of class ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/26/summer-break/ On Saturday we once again drew on big paper taped to the wall.  We used photographs to spark ideas and, once again, everyone did work that was bold.  My own piece was not successful.  I mucked up a figure I was drawing by trying to 'capture' the actual features a ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/22/drawing-class/ I've just discovered that Cy Twombley will be at Tate Modern in London from mid-June to mid-September. I love his work. Monumental scribbles and splashes of pure color. Words that can barely be read and some that can be read quite clearly. Dribbles of paint. ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/20/cy-twombley-at-tate-modern/ A chore-based day here and now almost supper time with absolutely no work done save for cutting the grass and planting a few blooms which does not count as work work. The soil test report came in this morning from U Mass regarding the quality of the earth in ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/17/the-wee-garden-saga/ Eliza Petrow, who put on the wonderful fundraiser for AIDS orphans in China last week in Cambridge, wrote to give me accurate details about the project. This is the project where they are working to care for AIDS orphans from a small village in China where the adults were ... http://artwalaroad.com/2008/05/15/more-on-the-chines-aids-orphans/