I’m gonna come out and say it, I love Christmas. I’ve celebrated it in all kinds of ways. Straight up Episcopalian religious, completely pagan, commercial x-mas, and any combination there of. I’ve even tried being cynical about the whole thing just to see how that felt. It didn’t work, because I love Christmas. When I …
As an art instructor, I make a lot of stuff. If you’ve poked around on my website you’ve probably seen my paintings and maybe even my ceramics, but I also make a lot of examples for art projects. Sometimes these examples are just silly things that I use to get the creativity flowing in my …
As you may be able to imagine, there are a lot of strange things about being a teenage graduate student in Boston. The most obvious is that despite my degrees I can’t go out and drink. Honestly, I don’t mind that much. I like having wine at home better than going out anyway. But I …
I’m working on a drawing, actually about to finish it, and in the process I have remembered something: I hate pencils. I’ve never been able to draw well with pencils. I got through my drawing classes in college by using charcoal and cante (fancy, dense charcoal). The only way I ever managed to use pencil …
Have you ever seen those pictures where a person is put next to a picture of their dog and it’s amazing how similar they are? I want to make a series of portraits of people next to their artwork. I doubt that the resemblance will be as uncanny as when a woman looks just like …
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Little mosaic paper tiles spill all over the floor. “Can everyone help clean up this spill?” “I know how to clean it up!” Grabs glue stick. Covers hands. Proceeds to pat hands all over floor. Cutest, best idea of the year goes to a little girl in one of my after school art classes for …
Here’s an idea, what if I just write up the most personal points of my life story and and put them on the internet for everyone to read? That’s exactly what Nathan Chow did last night. On his path to becoming an inspirational life coach, Nathan decided to type up the transformation he went through …
What would happen if a kid asked you for a light? The Thai Health Promotion Foundation answered that question. They created an ad where two children approached adults who were smoking and asked for a light. The adults were shocked and all of them told the children how bad smoking is and how they shouldn’t …
The internet directed me to an incredible new video this morning. An Israeli man named Izhar Gafni decided to make a cardboard bicycle. Because of his interest in bicycles, which he describes as his hobby, Gafni was at a bike shop one day and overheard two people talking about someone who made a cardboard canoe. …
I don’t always think things through when I first start them. Scratch that. When it comes to art, I rarely think things through when I first start them. In life I try to have a plan, in fact I really dislike not having a plan. Maybe that’s why I throw it all out the window …