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Pick your favorites
Help pick your favorites for a new design on the Slipcovers for your Walls blog of a new Flower Power / Wall of flowers for Casart coverings: http://www.casartcoverings.com/casartblog/archives/3424
Practical Painting
I read in interesting story in my local newspaper (Washington Post) about a teenage artist who had painted a 4 x 21 foot mural at his high school as a reaction (and with encouragement from his art teacher) to the assassination of President Kennedy. He was 17 at the time at The Washington Lee School. As John Kelly's article states, typically high school murals are painted directly on the walls and do not survive renovation. Luckily and wisely, Jon Friedman, the muralist painted his mural on sturdy paper. When The Washington Lee School was torn down, the mural was removed, stored and reframed and reinstalled in the new building. The…
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Mother’s Day Tribute
It was a working weekend for me and my husband so I didn’t get to spend Mother’s Day as I would like, plus it’s a bittersweet celebration for me for me to remember from 2 years past — just seems like yesterday. Although, I did get to paint a painting in tribute to my mother. It is after one of the camellias in her New Orleans garden. I think it’s name is Cherries Jubilee — how appropriately Southern. She’s off traveling in Tunisia and fortunately she was able to see this before leaving. As we have it up now on the Casart coverings site as one of many new Botanical…
