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21 January 2011

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Monday for MLK's holiday, we ventured on over at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. There were so many delights to view (I personally had the biggest grin once I spotted a Modigliani!) and inspirations all around. Some of my favorites were Magritte, Picasso and Chagall. The exhibits were fantastic too! We saw
India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow with rich colors, ornate patterns and paintings that look like they were lit from within. Another (permanent) exhibit Nat enjoyed immensely was Art of the Pacific showcasing tribal masks, headdresses and ancestor figurines. The best part of the day was Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915. This was Nat's all time favorite of the day. She really was having so much fun looking at all the clothes from different time periods. Lots of photos were taken with my little phone camera. Here are some (including Nat romping around on the Urban Light by Chris Burden) and the rest you can view on my flickr set.

27 April 2010

who wants to build a tepee with me?

I have this urge to make tepees whether it's small, in craft form or large where we can all climb in, play games, draw and tell stories. Either way I want in, how about you?

all images from Plains Tepee-How to make, erect and decorate a tepee

21 April 2010

if i was...

if i was a month i'd be november

if i was a day of the week i'd be thursday

if i was a time of day i'd be dusk

if i was a sea animal i'd be a seahorse

if i was a direction i'd be east

if i was a piece of furniture i'd be an old chair

if i was a liquid i'd be the sea

if i was a gemstone i'd be topaz

if i was a tree i'd be a willow

if i was a tool i'd be a paint brush

if i was a flower i'd be a hellebore

if i was a kind of weather i'd be rain

if i was a musical instrument i'd be a banjo

if i was a color i'd be earth brown

if i was an emotion i'd be longing

if i was a fruit i'd be a anjou pear

if i was a food i'd be my spinach, sausage and bean soup

if i was a material i'd be cotton

if i was a scent i'd be tuberose

if i was a flavor i'd be sweet

if i was a sound i'd be a 'ssshhhh'

if i was an element i'd be wind

if i was a mammal i'd be a fox

if i was a phase of the moon i would be full

if i was a berry i'd be blackberry

if i was a bird i'd be blackbird

if i was a book i'd be the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

if i was a place i'd be a forest by the sea

thank you dear heather of moonshine junkyard for sharing your lovely list (and for those who were before you too, the girl who married a bear and a cup full of sunshine...)

for art and photo credits, click on pictures...

10 April 2010

inuit art and inspiration

With keeping in content of the previous post, I wanted to share some beautiful inuit art and crafts and some inspired by (click on photos for link and credit)...