I have to admit, up until a few years ago I didn’t know what a Zinafandel wine should be like. I thought it was that pink colored wine that you got in the almost clear bottles at the grocery store. Nothing had prepared me for the deep red color and rich taste that my sister, T introduced me to. She
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Yesterday I was out shopping for art supplies for the upcoming workshops I have scheduled at Texas Art Asylum (I’ll be posting links for registration in the next couple of weeks). One of the items on my list was sandpaper, which I use to rough up slick surfaces so that gesso adheres better and to make surfaces more permeable for
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Okay so I’m a self admitted Japanophile and honestly, I can’t think of anything that starts with U that specifically describes me (Truth be told, I’m going to be struggling for the V post this evening). Anyhoo, so I thought I would kind of mix things up a bit and talk about one of my favorite collections of photography on
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There’s always been a sound track to my life. My mother played all kinds of music for us when we were little (50s, 60s, 70s, Country) and my grandmother introduced us to big band music. R is the first man in my life who likes the same kinds of music that I do. So…. I think I’m going to devote
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I have a bit of goat fascination. It started last year when I read Doug Fine’s Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living and continued with Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler. Eating locally and sustainably is something I am committed to and I’m a
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It started with Susannah Conway’s ‘A Little Something for You‘ post at the end of 2011. I worked my way through the exercises in the PDF. I got out my colored pens and started dreaming on paper. Do you know how much MORE you let yourself write down when you dream in color? LOTS. I found myself excitedly scribbling through the
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To say that I am passionate about cameras and photography is a bit of an understatement. From where I sit at my desk I can see 15 cameras that I currently own. That doesn’t count the ones I can’t see and that are tucked away. I have somewhere between 40-50 cameras of all shapes and sizes. Some are old Instamatics.
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