CB&WPC: Two By Two

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is Two of Anything.

CFFC: Pastel Colors

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge continues with her color series – this week it is pastel colors. Some flowers are bright, while others have muted colors. Most marigolds are bright, but these are soft yellow and white. Dahlias come in all colors – some are bright, some are light. Artists experiment with all kinds of color […]

October Squares: White Lines on Black

After a short hiatus from this challenge, I am back for another contribution to Becky’s October Square: Lines & Squares photo challenge. Today in my art class, we worked on shadows and “negative spaces” in drawing. These are my best efforts, with my favorite being the square photo. I drew these on black construction paper […]

Life Lines

For Becky’s October Square (lines & squares) and Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: hands, I decided to take a look at the lines on my palm. Analyzing these lines is called “palmistry” and while I consider this to be superstition, much like astrology, it still somehow interests me. I guess it has to […]

SYW: On being old, rainy days, why I don’t play golf, and love of flowers

It’s time for Melanie B. Cee’s weekly Share Your World! When you’re 90 years old, what do you suppose will matter most to you? I think it will be whether I am healthy enough to have a good quality of life. I’d like to be able to travel, but if not, I would want to […]

CB&WPC: These Shoes Are Made For Walkin’

The topic of Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is shoes, boots, slippers. A store advertising display in Copenhagen, Denmark My daughter’s shoes Please take off your shoes! New Year’s party-goers’ shoes at the entrance to a friend’s house My sketch of my husband’s slippers Cowboy boots for sale, Austin, Texas Display at […]

CFFC: Feet, Legs, and Paws

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: feet and/or legs – I’ve added paws! My niece shows off the clogs she got for her birthday in April. Chinese Foo Dog paw crushing her “baby” underfoot (in front of House of Szechwan Restaurant in Des Plaines, IL) . This has some symbolism. Foo dogs are typically […]

CFFC: Make Me Laugh!

The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is: Funny. I looked through my photos to see which ones really made me laugh. Here’s what I came up with. Fish mailbox (Dempster Ave., Des Plaines) Speaking of fish, here are fish and duck Toby jugs: Dog Toby jugs: (If you are scratching your head, […]

Cee’s SYW: On Classes, Cooking, Phobias (etc.)

Cee’s challenges are back! Here are my answers for this week’s questions in Share Your World: A class you wish you would have taken? There are actually several! I wish I had transferred to a university where I could major in anthropology, which was my first academic love. I always wanted to take art classes, […]