This week’s lesson in the Love Art Happy Life was on Gustav Klimt and the task was to do a Klimt-inspired piece as homework. I continue to recommend this e-course as it is helping me think about art...
This weeks Journal 52 had three options for a prompt: skulls, crows or what the heart knows. Since I am not a big on drawing hearts and kind of suck at being girly in that way, ‘what the heart...
Today’s adventure is a blend of two earlier posts, my 2016 food goals and one on being a tourist in your own town. The plan was to hit the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, see the sponsored Rockwell Alley...
Today will be the inaugural post in a series on creating mud art. I have somehow epically failed and can’t find a single picture of any of the previous artworks I have done in this form. Blurg. In...
A fancy Sunday chicken dinner. Not something that I typically do too much with, but since my father gave me a beautiful 8 lb chicken that he cared for and slaughtered himself, I can not resist. He also shared...
We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different. You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town. We picked a...
I must say, I’m not sure on the punctuation of the podcast title, Oh No! Ross & Carrie!, but I think it fits the vibe. I have a strong history of skepticism and a deep and abiding love of the...
This week’s inspiration on Love Art, Happy Life comes from the short-lived artist Egon Schiele. I love the way the guest instructor, Roxanne Coble, gives some context to Schiele and his work through...