Art for Matrons? You’ll Be Surprised! (Women are Malleable and Art is Where We Find It)

 In my ongoing attention (see previous post) to the “random abundance” which Oregon writer Kim Stafford (in his book The Muses Among Us) is the matrix out of which “Coherence is born,” I pulled Paul…

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How To Visit an Art Gallery . . . .And Make Connections. . . Early Steps. . .

First, let me tell you that I posted myhalf-year reading listover on my Reading Blog, if you’re looking for new titles . . Last post here, I mentioned some on-site sketching with a Ten as…

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Art in Paris — Contemplative Discovery

I’m always surprised and gratified and fascinated and ever so grateful to this community when I post something tentative and somewhat vulnerable, when I’m thinking out loud, as it were — and then, as with…

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Travel Sketch. . . Trogir Putto

I sketched this cheeky putto in Trogir (croatia), in the chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini (by Donatello pupil Fioren) in the very beautiful St. Lawrence Cathedral, and I remembered him this past week when Hamish…

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One Week: Three Italian Cities. . . .Photos from Florence

 We’re heading back to Bordeaux today after a week in Italy, based at our daughter’s home not far from Rome. These images are from the two-and-a-bit days we spent in Florence, a city that deserves…

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