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&…Looking Back
I just received the latest issue of my high school alumni magazine and there is an article mentioning most all of my early art teachers. It’s so nice to see them together getting the recognition they deserve and for me to reflect on how important they were in my life. Mrs. Fitzpatrick (grammar school), Mrs. Timmerick and Mrs. Boone (middle and high school) were my main teachers and each had different teaching styles and talents but their influence was a major impact on me wanting to be an artist. They gave me the fundamentals for how to “see” as an artist and the mechanics for how to create the artistic…
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Nickel & Brass…
What’s the traditional symbol for one’s 21st wedding anniversary? Trick question. There isn’t one. Nickel and Brass are contemporary symbols for this celebration. Although maybe not nickel or brass, but certainly metal, these trees at The Public, an interactive art building in West Bromwich, England, suggest a good fill in. I’ll have to remember this place to visit one day. Now I could go off on a tangent about trees and twig art: Or tree bark fashion (floral display): But I think I’ll stick on subject. My husband, Peter, and I our celebrating our 21st wedding anniversary. It’s really hard to believe for it doesn’t seem that long. Now, I…
Eddie Ross
Interior design is where art and design coincide. Interior decorators and designers need to have an artistic eye and the know-how in order to construct a room in a pleasing, practical and livable way. Designer, Eddie Ross‘ tablescapes in his Sitting Room and Dining Room at the New Orleans Home and Garden Show displayed such talent. He collected thrift shop finds and other purchases from various New Orleans locations, such as one of my favorite places, Perch (on Magazine) and had about one day to assemble it all. He’s had a lot of practice for this kind of challenge on the TV show Top Design and as Martha Stewart’s former…
