The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Feb 23rd- A few of my favorite things...

~Ice on the things that stay green

~Ice on the things that find color in other ways

~Ice painting a landscape with ephemeral layer of glass

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 25th- A few of my favorite things...

~Rain painting maple leaves more vibrant

~An individual leaflet of Virginia Creeper adding a pop of red to the mossy green ground

~Bright yellow basswood leaves providing a terrestrial sunshine underfoot

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Sept 12th- A few of my favorite things...

~Painting words into the impasto of poetry

~Experience that embraces a poem and sees a mirror within

~A play that reframes a poem into a larger canvas that still resonates about dreams 63 years later

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Feb 14th- A few of my favorite things...

~Painting the anchors and the bowsprit

~A new set of tweezers to help a young shipwright with her craft

~Discovering a handy pair to hold a piece while its being worked on

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Nov 13th- A few of my favorite things...

~Frost painting the morning grass

~Leaves brushed in delicate patterns

~The fleeting nature of frost on the cusp of melting with the morning light

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Feb 17th- A few of my favorite things...
~Art made of wood...wooden pentominoes structure by Felicity
~Art imitating wood...in a pencil sketch by me :-)
~Art that would...let you see a starry night on a cloudy one...a detail of a not-quite-finished painting by Shaniah

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Jan 3rd- A few of my favorite things...

~The fun of painting with just water

~Art created quickly formed by brief strokes

~Sitting back and watching it fade like summer memories it was based on

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Dec 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~An afternoon spent visiting an art gallery with paintings all by one artist
~Taking time to study a painting to see not only what the artist included, but even seeing his brush strokes
~Trying your hand at drawing what you see in the picture

If you are ever in the Skaneateles, NY area,
take time to check out this gallery:
http://barrowgallery.org/

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 8th- A few of my favorite things...

~Watching a girlie continue her work on "Starry Night"

~Watching her study details and notice things in the painting for the first time

~Watching how little strokes of chalk together begin to catch the essence of a night long ago