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My new round of art classes is underway - a Christmas Keepsakes class and a Intro to Linoleum Block Printing.
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| My sample print |
The Christmas class is a lot of work because I'm doing three projects that I've never done before. There's a certain degree of invention because I want to offer something that is unique and worthwhile (for parents who are paying for these classes). Then, there's an element of adaptation because some of my original ideas are just too challenging for the younger members of the class (8 year olds). I have to find a way to achieve a successful end that's "do-able" with those kids. And, I've found that that challenge is something I enjoy - gives me something to obsess over, I guess. And, I've got 2 girls who are all too happy to be my testers at home...
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| Guess you'll have to wait and see! |
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The block printing class is just fun. I haven't done this in probably over ten years, and I forgot how much I enjoy it. I had an uncarved linoleum block from way-back-when and used a sketchbook doodle to make a quick sample (the rocket shown above).
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By: Matthew Cheney,
on 3/6/2009
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In NYC recently, the Imperial City, they remembered John Leonard. Had there been any way to do it, I would have been there, even if I couldn't have gotten inside with all the literati; heck, I would've been happy just to stand in traffic for a bit and get the taxis honking in tribute. But no. I'll rely on reports. Such as this one from Charles Kaiser at CJR:
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love of the life of the mind,” his “incomparably informed generosity,” his reluctance to “pan books or movies or TV shows or children, except when absolutely necessary”—and his unlikely dependence on just ten words: “tantrum, cathedral, linoleum, moxie, thug, dialectic, splendid, brood, libidinal, and qualm.”It's a nice piece, and best of all, peppered with Leonard's own words. Here's what he once said about Fran Lebowitz:
To a base of Huck Finn, add some Lenny Bruce and Oscar Wilde and Alexis de Tocqueville, a dash of cab driver, an assortment of puns, minced jargon, and top it off with smarty-pants. Serve without whine. This is the New York style, and I for one am glad that it survives and prospers because otherwise we might as well grow moss in unsurprising Omaha."Obviously," Kaiser says, "he had spotted a kindred spirit."
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