CFFC: Painting of Many Kinds, Times & Places

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is anything painted.

Joy With Kids

Cee’s On the Hunt for Joy this week has the theme Let a kid decorate. I’m not around kids much anymore, so I went into my archives from my years of teaching. Since my language arts students were all of Mexican & Central American origin, we celebrated the Day of the Dead on the day after […]

Blogging Insights in Quarantine

Dr. Tanya has a question she asks each week. This week, #27, it is: What are you doing to ‘repair’ (re-vamp or update) yourself and your blog during the lockdown? I haven’t really done anything to change or revamp my blog. I am probably blogging more now, but some days I don’t blog at all. […]

October Squares: Nature in Art on Display

Here is my contribution for today for Becky’s October Square with the topic lines & squares. These are photos of artwork that I saw on display (except the last one, which I drew last week). Each one has definitive lines and each also incorporates nature into the artwork. At an art gallery in Poulsbo, WA: […]

October Squares #2: Glass Art

I am featuring pieces from a museum again, for Becky’s Month of Squares in October with the topic “Lines & Square.”. These pieces are from the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. We went there to see Chihuly’s glass art, but the museum has so much more than that. The first exhibit we went into […]

CB&WPC: Murals

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Murals. The word mural comes from the Latin word for wall. It is defined by Bing as: a painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall. Wikipedia goes into further detail: A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on […]

WPC: Works of Art

Sue W.’s Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Work of Art. Works of art are everywhere – an artist’s painting, a mural on a wall, a beautiful building, or natural works of art – a sunset, a rainbow, blooming flowers, animals – and animals creating their own works of art! A work of art doesn’t […]

Capitol Series #3: Santa Fe, NM

This is the 3rd in my series of posts about state capitol buildings I have visited. Each one has something unique. We visited New Mexico’s state capitol in Santa Fe on June 12, 2018. Santa Fe’s capitol does not have a dome but the building itself is round! Actually it is built in the shape […]

CB&WPC: Carvings & Sculptures

Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is sculptures, carvings and statues. I have always loved Native Southwestern art and had often coveted my oldest sister’s collection of Navajo kachinas. Recently, I’ve begun to collect them for myself. The first one I got is the round faced one with a feathered headdress, at the Crazy […]

Getting Our Kicks in Santa Fe, NM (Route 66, Day 5, Pt. 3)

June 11, 2018 There is plenty to see and do in Santa Fe. Head for the historic Plaza in the center of town to see adobe Pueblo-style buildings and a square (the Plaza) that resembles similar plazas in Mexico. Adjacent to the Plaza is another historic hotel, La Fonda. The hotel operated as a Harvey […]