Blind Contours...

I was invited to be the featured artist this week over at Blind Contour Friday. Below is my submission for the Friday challenge. These are really fun to do and a great way to prime the creative pump - give one a try and then on Friday add your blind contour to the submission pool.
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"lamp & clock ~ blind contour"
one-line #18

antique pulpit chair

"antique pulpit chair"
one-line #17

A very happy Yankee...

Down south in GA for Christmas (where it rarely snows) but woke this morning. looked out the window, and was given this sight of the world!

Merry Christmas

"...O holy child of Bethlehem, descend to us, we pray;

cast out our sin and enter in; be born in us today,

we hear the Christmas angels the great tidings tell:

O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel."

from the Christmas hymn, O Little Town of Bethlehem

Community Art....

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Here is a mural that was completed today in the Post Office of the College where I work.  It was a project envisioned by a community arts class on campus and my boys and I helped paint some of it.

I thought it was a fitting post for Reverb10  - days 6/7/8/9 as it was made by a community and celebrates the beautifully different - then when the students finished they stood and sang together - it was a party.

clown

thumbody's missing

Inspiration Avenue prompt: community

Sam the clam

one-line pen and ink

Here sits Sam, the sulking clam—
His friendships all go south
when he puts his foot inside his mouth.

hops

Illustration Friday prompt: clumsy


one-line pen & ink drawing w/watercolor pencils

creativity:

I create because I am created.

Sisyphus

Illustration Friday prompt: confined


pencil illustration

I thought the Greek myth of Sisyphus portrays being "confined". The story of the tricky king Sisyphus who is condemned by the gods to roll a large boulder up a steep hill - only before he reaches the top the boulder would always roll down to the base of the hill again thus forcing him to be confined to the task for eternity...

More on the myth here

"cataract"

Illustration Friday prompt: blur


one-line pen & ink drawing with watercolor pencils

conversation:

The fire by which humanity warms or burns itself.

creativity:

Like origami, it is lifting the extraordinary out of the plain; it is the fold and turn that defines.

contentment:

Found in a gratefullness in everything, not a gratefullness for everything.

cold:

A synonym for sickness, an antonym for awe.

concentration:

The fine tuning of the mind to magnify the thought or object presented.

commuting:

The schedule and day in, day out passing. It is the commotion of getting somewhere...longing to be somewhere else: this riding of bus or train or plane; even more, the riding of hope.

children:

Imagination...small...playful...adaptable...the poor among me...Filled with trust and questions...easily damaged thus they need great care...Time has not yet consumed them - they dwell in the eternal now. I remember the Christmas as a child when I got my first watch and Father Time began to replace Father Christmas.