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By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/16/2016
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By: Tara Chang,
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By: Tara Chang,
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By: Tara Chang,
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- which took a bit of doing considering that both of their rooms were a fairly intense shade of blue (my daughter's room was literally the same shade of blue as the painter's tape). Lots of prepping and priming...
By: Tara Chang,
on 1/31/2010
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I've been drawing larger views of the chapel the last few weeks (mostly because I abhor doing interiors and most architecture... No pain, no gain? I hate it enough that I'm bound to get better?). I do find it quite difficult to draw straight lines and parallels and right angles on my knee or in a sketchbook I"m holding in my hand, rather than on a more stable surface... ah well...
Compared to drawing in a slightly larger pad, stabilized on my desk and *copying* someone else's fabulous sketches (in this case Jean-Baptise Monge - whose fairy books are amongst my most favoritest ever). Maybe, someday, I can has drawering skillz too....?
By: Paintgranny,
on 4/19/2008
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I have got to the point where I need serious amounts of wool and as many colours as I find in my normal paint palette. My toy designs are cramming my head, (I even go to sleep visualising them as I drift off) and it is so frustrating to know exactly what colours I want them to be, but not to have them at my fingertips. And worse, to run out of a colour when a toy is half done. Thanks to a much needed royalty check I was able to splurge a little at Wingham Wools - hence the mysterious lump. I hadn't quite realised how big nearly 6KG (13.2 lbs) would be...like a child at Christmas I upended the sack. Out spilled dozens of wool bundles, like so many tubby, multi-coloured kittens tumbling over the floor.
Being the original anal retentive I had to line them up in a vague colour chart...
Sighs of deep satisfaction from one contented artist. My trousers have holes, my boots are falling apart, but I have enough wool to felt a menagerie of creatures. Priorities.
Found - a lovely set of 1960's toy making books -
Some retaining the original patterns -
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By: Tara Chang,
on 2/11/2013
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Since it was a pretty fairy-filled weekend, thought a little Loreena McKennitt-singing Yeats appropriate....
And one more pic from the show -
"At Faeries Dawn", by Jean-Baptiste Monge (my artistic hero. And a heck of a nice guy).
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By: Tara Chang,
on 9/30/2011
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The magical environment we stay in naturally hosts all kinds of fascinating creatures -
(some possible denizens - actually copies of Jean-baptiste Monge drawings. Done the first evening there...)
ACTUAL critters we saw - Tracks of elk and deer, ravens and eagles.
Northern alligator lizard!
And this year (the first time in the 10 years we've been going) we actually got to see Chinook salmon running.
This river runs practically next to the cabin. We followed it upstream to where there were gravel beds for spawning...
(Our hostess got right up to the water for the best view of both live spawning fish as well as a number of finished dead ones... Also got to see signs of river otters who had obviously been enjoying the spent ones.)
If you look very closely, you can see a Chinook salmon in the bottom center third....
This was not a big mushroom year - but there were a few out there (here is a fine specimen of chicken in the woods) -
-and here is part of a larger hedgehog mushroom growth (looks like coral) -
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By: Tara Chang,
on 9/7/2011
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The only paintbrush I've been able to wield of late is a large, rough, household one -
With both kids gone, along with their bedroom furniture, I decided it's time to repaint and re-carpet down in the basement -
- but they are both now painted a nice warm, creamy white (along with all the trim, doors and ceilings). I'll have to wait until daylight to see if this is sufficient or if any of that deep blue is still showing through.
They will soon have new designations and much re-arranging is still to come...
In the studio, I've been doing a bit of modern-master copies as prep for the current book dummy I'm working on. Here's page of Jean-Baptiste Monge,
-and a pen study of William Stout. (it's disconcertingly SO much easier to copy somebody than originate one's own.. Fun though. :-)
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By: Tara Chang,
on 1/31/2010
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I've been drawing larger views of the chapel the last few weeks (mostly because I abhor doing interiors and most architecture... No pain, no gain? I hate it enough that I'm bound to get better?). I do find it quite difficult to draw straight lines and parallels and right angles on my knee or in a sketchbook I"m holding in my hand, rather than on a more stable surface... ah well...
Compared to drawing in a slightly larger pad, stabilized on my desk and *copying* someone else's fabulous sketches (in this case Jean-Baptise Monge - whose fairy books are amongst my most favoritest ever). Maybe, someday, I can has drawering skillz too....?
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By: Paintgranny,
on 4/19/2008
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Delivered - one plumpy-lumpy sack.
I have got to the point where I need serious amounts of wool and as many colours as I find in my normal paint palette. My toy designs are cramming my head, (I even go to sleep visualising them as I drift off) and it is so frustrating to know exactly what colours I want them to be, but not to have them at my fingertips. And worse, to run out of a colour when a toy is half done. Thanks to a much needed royalty check I was able to splurge a little at Wingham Wools - hence the mysterious lump. I hadn't quite realised how big nearly 6KG (13.2 lbs) would be...like a child at Christmas I upended the sack. Out spilled dozens of wool bundles, like so many tubby, multi-coloured kittens tumbling over the floor.
Being the original anal retentive I had to line them up in a vague colour chart...
Sighs of deep satisfaction from one contented artist. My trousers have holes, my boots are falling apart, but I have enough wool to felt a menagerie of creatures. Priorities.
Found - a lovely set of 1960's toy making books -
Some retaining the original patterns -
Also found - an early 1962 Oxford University Press edition of the Pied Piper by Robert Browning, illustrated by Howard Jones...
Arrived - Lily Laguna, my second bird-mobile, has found the perfect home with Gifling where she is living in another artist's studio, so will feel very much at home. Thank you Gillian!
Discovered - my new site of the week, illustrations to die for, a new name to me - Jean-Baptiste Monge. If you like Brian Froud you will love, love, love this artist's work. And he keeps a blog too. It is all on French, so if, like me, your language skills are a little rusty, then the Google translation tool does a very good job - simply put the url of the page in, choose which language to change from and away you go!
(What have I been needle felting? Ahhh...this and that...)
Arrived - Lily Laguna, my second bird-mobile, has found the perfect home with Gifling where she is living in another artist's studio, so will feel very much at home. Thank you Gillian!
Discovered - my new site of the week, illustrations to die for, a new name to me - Jean-Baptiste Monge. If you like Brian Froud you will love, love, love this artist's work. And he keeps a blog too. It is all on French, so if, like me, your language skills are a little rusty, then the Google translation tool does a very good job - simply put the url of the page in, choose which language to change from and away you go!
(What have I been needle felting? Ahhh...this and that...)
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By: Aline Pereira,
on 10/10/2007
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Not all spiritual books for kids are obviously so at first glance. Fiction may help children deal with spiritual questions even better when there is not direct spiritual content. A librarian friend offers three of her multicultural favorites for older kids. Crash, by Jerry Spinelli, documents the growing friendship between a Quaker boy and an agnostic jock. Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi, is a Batchelder Award-winning memoir of a Palestinian childhood. In Iqbal, by Francesco D’Adamo, a fictionalized account of a Pakistani boy sold into slavery, children develop spirituality without any wholesome adult influence. (At PaperTigers, see a review of Susan Kuklan’s Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery, a non-fiction account of this tragic but inspiring story.)
Two recent Australian animal picture books are among the many endearing examples of spiritual books for young children. Breakfast with Buddha, by Vashti Farrer and Gaye Chapman, is a first-person account of an ego-filled cat’s encounter with Buddhist monks and his consequent lesson about humility. Samsara Dog, by Helen Manos, beautifully relates the story of a dog’s several lives as he develops the spiritual qualities that finally free him from the cycle of rebirth.
And a Buddhist nun friend from Taiwan highly recommends Kate Decamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. “I read it six times,” she said with a smile, “and cried every single time.”
The deep themes of human life are everywhere, for eyes that see. Non-didactic fiction gives children a way to explore large spiritual questions without being “spoon-fed” opinions and views.
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Luscious painting. I adore his work!!!
Oh me too! Am *so* looking forward to his workshop in September!