the idea: put aside pride and get excited over taking pretty flower pictures I’m not sure if it comes from my childhood as a tomboy, my college experience as a “sophisticated artist,” or some weird unconscious cultural thing, but sometimes I get self-conscious when I see a beautiful flower and want to take a picture of …
the idea: make a drawing with a student Last week I was teaching a class where we were using oil pastels and as the children began to draw I started to doodle absentmindedly on the brown paper. At first it was just to show them how well oil pastels blend together, but as they started to …
the idea: capture the morning light in the morning just because it looks nice As the daughter of a technical theater woman, I have spent a lot of my life listening to my mother exclaim about how the light looks at a specific moment. Recently, she has developed the the ability to say exactly what gel …