Murder Your Darlings

The dean of Thomas Moore College once told us that the secret to good writing is to "Murder your darlings."  

I was going to entitle this brief post Selling your Soul.

I was thinking that putting a drawing into a frame, and then taking it somewhere, putting it someplace, makes it appear to be art.  Simply because someone bothered to say it was, by framing it.

These are one dollar frames from The Dollar Tree.  Presto, Change-o. 

Who buys art?  

I was thinking of trying to find out.  

"Don't Look Down" song

Early Manuscript

This is an early manuscript of Jason Debow's work, age eight, three days before his ninth birthday and...strangely, ONE DAY before My Actual Birth.  Let's see where his head was at:

 

la vie vivante

May I say I was inspired?  At least, tickled pink.   Both in their nineties (I did a mini on the spot interview), Tom and Marilyn have both been widowed...multiple times.  "Yes," Marilyn says, "I do make him dress to match me."

Beautiful Losers

This is the Best Thing I've seen In So Long.

So, I'm embedding the first two youtube (of 8 available) segments here for you.  You won't regret it.  Trust me.

Birds of a Feather

Let me introduce you to a dear friend and fellow artist, educator, and woman of may talents.  Erica Jeans created these pieces (stone set in sterling; pendant, and complimenting feather and glass bead earrings), earrings from genuine peacock tail feathers purchased from a peacock breeder at the time of her egg acquisition.  She and her children have now successfully hatched baby peacocks of their own, in Pembroke, Nh.  Look forward to more art and designs by this talented female.

 

 

Bookish

My latest hand made books; compilations of sketches made of musicians at the Riverwalk Cafe during open mic night.  (sept. 2010 - sept. 2011)  Paper, glue, and bound with embroidery floss.  These are gifts for the owners of the cafe, and a few regulars who've fallen under the dubious weight of my pen...

stitch along center seam

knot when finished

found these transfer letters and numbers for .50 at the craft store...

9" x 11.25" version

3" x 3" version