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Eleven Year Old Copies the Old Masters – Carla and Megan’s Blog

click on images to enlarge Megan discovers an original Rembrandt work of art on paper. Albrecht Durer’s engraving of Adam and Eve was there. So were works by   Cezanne, Renoir, Degas,  Gauguin, Leon...

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A Porkpie Fedora,Wingtips and a Sax Thrown In – San Francisco

The guy sitting over there on the right. His foot kept bobbing up and down, like it just kept it’s own rhythm with music that filled the room. It was just an ol’ dark shoe with a pointed toe, not new....

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‘A’ San Francisco

letter A hidden in everyday places and objects Filed under: California, Iphone photographs, Photographs Tagged: Abstract Art, Art, Arts, hipstamatic photo, Letter Writing, Painting, photograph, United...

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Warrior Challenges His Friend – Beijing, China

Click on image to enlarge   Peking Opera School The warrior challenges his friend: sticks for swords, young bodies swoop and lunge. Play boots stomp on a pink Oriental rug. Boys in workout gear, black...

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Chinese Sketching Brush Strokes -China

Portrait Looking at the names of sketching strokes in Chinese art, I see the country:   Ancient wavy silk thread String Iron wire Moving cloud and flowing water Leech Nail-head, rat-tail Wedge Broken...

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Terracotta Warriors – Xian

Terracotta  Army in battle formation. No armor. Ferocity, bravery: sufficient protection. Filed under: Artists' books, China, drawings, Poems, Travel Drawings Tagged: Abstract Art, Archaeology, Art,...

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Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Between Grandmother and Granddaughter

This one is worth clicking on to see drawing detail Pros and Cons of Online Collaboration Between Grandmother and Granddaughter First of all there are demographic variables. The participants are from...

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13 Old Sees New York City For the First time – Carla and Megan’s Blog

Car parked outside Vin et Fleur by Megan 13 New York by Megan When the plane was about to land, I was so excited about seeing New York, and spending it with my grandmother. I’ve heard so much, but it...

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Thirteen Year Old Brit Sketches Commes des Garcons – New York

Comme de Garçon by Megan While we were walking past the street, we spotted an unusual shop with a sort of futuristic theme. It was like walking into a smooth silver cave. The outside was dotted with a...

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Rembrandt and Me – Amsterdam and San Francisco

Trees in Golden Gate Park   3″ x 5″ drawing click on image to see detail Catching the last day of  Girl with the Pearl Earring, Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis  museum hague the netherlands. I...

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World Lion Day

In 2007 my husband and I went on Safari to Botswana. Sitting in an open Toyota Land Cruiser, we were searching for animals. Cameras out, binoculars scanning the landscape, we were ready to go! We sat...

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Listening to Miles or Kind of Blue

‘Listening to Miles’    6. 12. 2013       64″ x 46″    Atelier Interactive Acrylic on canvas ‘Listening to Miles’    Day #5 Ouch !  I need a professional photographer, John Janca,  to record my...

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Painting in the Woods – Day One

Enveloping, quiet, vivid, comforting, safe Wow, one bright yellow green leaf ! Gone Still Quivering Momentary Restful Light, gentle Private Thoughts on painting in my studio space in the woods. ‘The...

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Painting in the Woods – Day Two

I thought of Matisse‘s chapel in Nice, France. Chapelle_du_Rosaire_de_Vence .  The two doors carved in wood designed by Matisse for the confessionals are painted a slick white enamel. Colored sunlight...

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Journey of a Photograph Puts Painting in the Woods On Hold – Vietnam

I have been invited to participate in an online collaboration. Painting in the Woods, a journal of the progression of three paintings will be continued after this exciting detour. Meanwhile my poetry,...

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‘night train to sapa ’

Reblogged from Journeyofaphotograph: I received Emily’s photograph September 28nd 2013. Having followed her blog, from the beginning, I had often thought what would I do if I were asked to put...

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‘You Can’t Judge a Book by it’s Cover’– Journey of a Photograph

You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover You shouldn’t form an opinion on someone or something based purely on what you see on the surface, because usually after taking a deeper look, the person or thing...

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Placing Myself Under House Arrest and Reading Michael Ondaatje

Wynton at the Fairmont by Carla Saunders Probably no one will notice that I’ve been put under house arrest. I’m not Lindsay Lohan or Aung San Suu Kyi. All I want to do is go to the studio and paint,...

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“My Kid Could Do That.”

When I was Two. I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever, so I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.” Quote from A.A Milne, Now We Are Six When...

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Traffic – San Francisco

Thinking about Richard  Guest’s post Realm of Dusk  http://thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com/,  collage of photographs. Thinking about David Hockney’s exhibit, The Big Picture...

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