February 23, 2015
February 21, 2015
February 20, 2015
February 19, 2015
Line's Back Here Buddy
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February 18, 2015
Studio Night Last Night: Just Paint.
As I didn't have a class to teach last night and my cold is gone, I though I would actually spend Studio Night painting! I kept thinking about things that I tell my students to keep them going, like: "I like to start at the front and work my way back," and "Just paint! Just paint." That one works great.
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February 17, 2015
Cars Are Cars and Painting Class is Painting Class
Here are a couple of class prep sketches.
And here's the work that my awesome students made! Flicker Street Studio students are the best.
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February 16, 2015
Memphis Monday: Sketching at The Arcade Restaurant
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February 15, 2015
Sunday Glorious Sunday
It was such a lovely day, hanging out with these ladies and then going out for coffee. It was like a mini-vacation!
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February 14, 2015
Happy Valentine's Day: I Forgot to Tell You About Christmas!
Toby and I like to do just whatever we please, so we drove to New Orleans for Christmas. It's such an easy drive from here, we should really go there more often.
The first thing we did was make sure we knew where all the food would be.
On Christmas night we wandered around until we came to one of my favorite spots, Maspero's, and discovered it was open! We sat at the bar and feasted on po boys.
We found a little treasure right across the street from our hotel, Cajun Mike's, a friendly little dive bar where Toby could smoke his cigars inside, and a nice man bought us a round of drinks .
We also visited Tiki Tolteca - a great tiki bar with GREAT Mexican food downstairs at Felipe's. We were enjoying the cool, laid-back vibe of the place until about 20 members of a co-ed bachelorette/bachelor party showed up, all in grass skirts, all woooo-ing. Woooo!
Oh look it's time to eat again! This was at Jäger Haus for a very late breakfast/on-time lunch. It was quite good. After that we wandered around the Quarter and bought hats.
We also ate at Lüke. Yes, we ate at two places with umlauts in the name. And we ate at Lüke twice, so that's three times the umlauts.
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February 13, 2015
Bookclub!
We had a couple of extra guests at this meeting. I don't think they read the book.
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February 12, 2015
People and Pattern
G's team lost this one, as the other team's girls were all giants.
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February 08, 2015
Supply Sunday: Not That Kind of Supply
My Mom gave me the Griddler Gourmet for Christmas one year after I asked for it specifically. It is AWESOME. I use it pretty regularly to make hot sandwiches, quesadillas, and whatever else I can think of.
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February 07, 2015
February 06, 2015
Happy New Year TV Sketches
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February 05, 2015
Studio Night - Oh Yeah, My Blog!
Somehow, even though I've painted for 20 years, and even though I've taught for four, and even though it is only once a week for four weeks, teaching takes up my ENTIRE BRAIN. I can't figure it out, and I can't stop it from happening. So, that's where I've been.
I've been doing a few other things. You'll see those soon, too, now that I've remembered I have a blog. Hope you'll join me!
I spent most of Studio Night scanning a month's worth of sketches, and part of it making another one of these mini watercolor kits, this time with colors that I like better. The other colors were good - could've been used to mix a true orange and green and violet - except I never used it because I didn't care as much for using those colors straight. I think I'll use these. We'll see.
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