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i get lost in the research
sunday: i have been researching for hours and have not made the connections i was looking for, i have hit a wall with david wilson, christina shealter and john henry. this is maggie sisson(s). i did make the sisson connection. here's the relationship. dorothy ellen...
vegetarians
friday: watched a good movie on kanopy about people helping other people called “i’m with phil”. it makes me feel that there is something in people that when times are tough they can stick together and help each other. this all took place in phil campbell, alabama....
the end of times
thursday: bean soup for lunch. i love to doctor up a can of beans. today i used some veggie broth and tomato sauce as a base, added the beans, garlic and tiny pasta shells. when it was cooked, i threw in some tomatoes, avocado and lemon zest. we topped it off with...
ghosts from the past are haunting me
wednesday: this is p.c. mc henry. he was born in 1887. i don't know why i am so drawn to these old photos, or why i feel the need to figure out who they are and how they relate to one another, except to say that they are like ghosts from the past haunting me to tell...
i am overwhelmed with family trees
tuesday: more research on the campbell family, very time consuming but nothing to show you. at least i got a painting done. this is blaine campbell.making baked tofu, rice and spinach goma-ae.
lemon fever
monday: the morning starts with laundry. there are not as many dirty clothes because we’re not going anywhere and, quite frankly, we’re wearing the same things for a couple of days in a row. the most dirty clothes are shirts for jake, that’s because he’s doing video...
water coloring
friday: do i need another old camera? yes, of course. today i bought a nikon EM. it was $55 with the lens, tripod and all, thank you, james. it’s not an expensive camera, but i think it will be a fun foil to my fully manual canon AE-1 that i bought in college. i have...
it’s curtains for you…
thursday: ok, so i do spend a bit of time looking at pinterest. it's my only social media outlet so when i am not feeling like doing anything else i resort to it. today i found a beautiful idea for a window "curtain". i had 4 pretty hankies that my friend, shari, had...
japanese garden
thursday: i took a walk with shari at the japanese friendship garden in the morning.i made preserved lemons.i made lentil soup for dinner.
paper beads
tuesday: i made paper beads and some collages. i made pasta with lemons from shari’s tree and beets and beet greens from je paul’s garden.
Fired image transfers
It has taken me a couple of months to get back to the image transfers, but here is a glazed plate. I will add a few more in a couple of days as I unload the kiln. Sneak preview. This is from a photo of my parents.
IMAGE TRANSFERS REVISITED
I used images of my parents from an old photo and tried some filters in photoshop – torn edges and graphic pen – and printed them from my laser printer. Mind you, the laser prints worked before. But again today, the images came out a little dappled and more distressed than I prefer.