“Interior design is not just one’s artistic efforts, but that which a home (even if it is just a room) is.” –Edith Schaeffer, Hidden Art Currently, almost everything we own, in terms of household items, furniture, décor, etc.… has been given to us, made, or purchased used, and I actually like it ... Read More
Day 9: Playing with Drawing
Drawing is interesting. I have always had a love-hate relationship with it, mostly because I have a tendency to be undisciplined and lazy, and that does not mix well with drawing. I think drawing speaks to what it feels like to live this life. It is a walk with beginnings, joys, sorrows, repentance, ... Read More
Day 8: Playing with Mixed Media Art
I love mixed media art. When I sit down to do something creative, it is, usually, related to the mixed media arts. I find tremendous joy in playing with paint, textures, papers and moving them around on the canvas to create a harmonious work. I love the challenge of discerning what colors, ... Read More
Day 7: Playing with Watercolors by Lynn Seddon
Playing with Watercolours by Lynn Seddon {Post and Paintings by Lynn Seddon} For many years, I have kept a copy of ‘The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady’ by Edith Holden. A reproduction of the naturalist’s diary that Edith kept for the year 1906, the book is a real treasure for those who pursue ... Read More
Day 6: Playing with Painting ~ A Classical View by Katerina Kern
Ballerina Painting by Degas. Image in the public domain Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Degas, and Picasso; we all know, at least indirectly, the famous paintings of the past. Painting has proved one of the primary stepping-stones upon which Western civilization has attempted to climb the ladder ... Read More
The Act of Creating
To create To cut out Pare down To polish Breaking Cutting Separating Creating “In the beginning, God created …” The word created in Genesis 1:1 comes from the Hebrew word bara, which means to cut away. Think about it. God began by speaking light into existence and ... Read More
Day 4: Process and the Art of Repentance by Lisa Amer
Today we are taking a deeper look into how the act of creating gives us practice in a greater art and one more way Playing with the Arts benefits us as humans, but especially as Christians. The Art of Process Repentance (or Learning how to Live) by Lisa Amer Have you ever noticed that quite ... Read More
At AfterThoughts Blog: Myth: CM and Memory Work Don’t mix
Today I am over at After Thoughts Blog helping to bust the Myth that 'Charlotte Mason and Memory Work Don't Mix' Here is an excerpt... "The thing that made Charlotte Mason’s observations so brilliant was that she noticed some things were not fitted well for a drill type of memorization, ... Read More
Day 3: Hidden Art & the Amateur
"The paideutic man’s attitude toward such activities as painting, drawing, violin playing, dancing, and acting is amateurish, not professional. He knows that one cannot learn the culture defined by these activities passively. Since culture is the unique property of the participant, not of the ... Read More
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