tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52197370464264134652024-03-06T00:41:17.580-05:00 DharmakarmaartsAn arts and crafts blog by Indira GovindanIndirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.comBlogger483125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-83937822982249838932023-04-30T07:09:00.001-04:002023-04-30T08:04:16.715-04:00Recapping Pandemic Year<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXloUVxTcuXegAcaIvsm8Yv6_ZYNXyQCHSK3CeSHx-e1yml8gxJcllai0jmaQ-4eFdPBISA_jXrBhDjkljmDZA318K3TP3RsmgRlWm-PGe9ZAEpzPiNBW0DYT1Ib1knav1-9sedyQ9Crd7JMYY_dbaRkUwJmdS4eALoKXyPq5rDYgPDs6xR88JcMSi/s3111/IMG_7333.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3111" data-original-width="2380" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXloUVxTcuXegAcaIvsm8Yv6_ZYNXyQCHSK3CeSHx-e1yml8gxJcllai0jmaQ-4eFdPBISA_jXrBhDjkljmDZA318K3TP3RsmgRlWm-PGe9ZAEpzPiNBW0DYT1Ib1knav1-9sedyQ9Crd7JMYY_dbaRkUwJmdS4eALoKXyPq5rDYgPDs6xR88JcMSi/w306-h400/IMG_7333.jpeg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">I did this piece of collage as a memorial to that intense and compressed pandemic period when none of us could go out and do anything. This was a record of not only what I did or did not do but also how abnormal it was then. With the pandemic having completely disappeared from the rear view mirror, it is even hard to remember how life was like then. 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It is afternoon, but seems like evening already. Swings have been placed in the mango orchards. Girls and their mothers enjoy using them. Some are on the swings; some are pushing them. In this season, women’s childhood memories are aroused. It seems as if it washes away the worries of their hearts and replenishing their soul. Hearts are filled with hope. The green of the saris seems to bond with the greenery around. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 25.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 21.13px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 21.13px;">Munshi Premchand: Gaban (Embezzlement), 1931. 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On its 40th anniversary, it has been reissued with a new introduction by Rushdie himself. I did not read it when it was first published. I am reading it now and at 600+ pages the going is a little slow. But I will finish it. I don’t know if I will find it as great as it has been proclaimed to be. Meanwhile, I decided to design a cover of my own for the book, something that reflects the historical nature of the text. </span></p><p><br /></p>Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-68508854632037241902021-05-22T12:00:00.001-04:002021-05-22T14:06:49.671-04:00How to Make Ghee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Though<i> Ghee </i>is typically referred to as clarified butter, the process of making ghee differs from that of clarified butter. For ghee, the butter is simmered till the milk solids settle in the bottom and the butter is completely caramelized. Ghee has a nutty flavor and is very aromatic.<br />
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Ghee is used in Indian cooking in variety of ways. It is the fat of choice in all Indian sweets. In addition, ghee is mixed into rice and dal; spread on roti and used for tempering rasam.<br />
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Making ghee is easy but does requires care and attention. One can use either salted or unsalted butter. Except that the milk solid residue from salted butter will be very salty and must be kept in consideration if the residue is used in any other preparation. For example, I reuse the pan with the left over residue for making vegetables and if it is residue from salted butter, I will use less salt for the vegetables.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How to make ghee:</span></b><br />
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Place the butter in a heavy pan, and melt it over low simmer flame. As the butter melts, it will foam a little bit. As it continues to heat, the foam will clear up and butter will turn into clear pale yellow liquid. If you stop here, you will get clarified butter. However, if you want ghee, continue to heat the butter till the liquid turns brown. Turn off the heat and let the liquid cool. Once it is cooled, pour into a container. It will keep well for a month or more at room temperature. No need to refrigerate.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L_JkhNSrjALo8T9f2qTOQH4a15jCoSfpRDY7ObKz_D-67CSDHNmGB6s4P9qmC8l9e24urfPswGQqLXj6Yw-2GK7VTZ82kerrkZKvOS3HtMG0MGafdVHa2jkbbcN-uA4oC0yPWgVgbRQ/s1922/36A895C6-581F-41B6-8912-526F9CF5452C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="1922" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-L_JkhNSrjALo8T9f2qTOQH4a15jCoSfpRDY7ObKz_D-67CSDHNmGB6s4P9qmC8l9e24urfPswGQqLXj6Yw-2GK7VTZ82kerrkZKvOS3HtMG0MGafdVHa2jkbbcN-uA4oC0yPWgVgbRQ/w358-h188/36A895C6-581F-41B6-8912-526F9CF5452C.jpeg" width="358" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-27306823681888481992017-11-30T23:32:00.000-05:002017-11-30T23:32:05.734-05:00Small Accessible Art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the last post, I showed one photo with many of the rock art I had done in recent weeks. That photo elicited a lot of interest and questions and so I thought I would post some individual pieces of rock art and answer some of the questions:<br />
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First, as for rocks, I use a combination of found rocks from beaches and commercial rocks purchased from landscape shops. For creating art, I use a combination of inks, fluid acrylics and various types of pens and brushes. Typically, each piece of art will take about 4-5 hours to complete. I use rocks of various sizes. The one below is about 3" x 2" and is placed in a deep square frame like a shadow box.<br />
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This one below was inspired by the cairns I saw at Cadillac mountain in Maine. I glued the painted rocks to create a stack and is about 4" tall.<br />
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Below are a few rocks painted with my favorite subject, birds.<br />
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The ones below are rocks painted to emulate gems! These are smaller in size about (2.5") and to give them some heft, I mounted them on flat rock slabs. They make nice paperweights.<br />
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I love painting on these little substrates. The beauty of this art form is that you can make it as simple or as detailed as you want. They also make nice affordable art.<br />
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If you want to know more, please do not hesitate to contact me.<br />
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You can view more of these at my <a href="http://www.dharmakarmaarts.etsy.com/">Etsy shop</a>. Starting from December 1, I am offering free domestic (US) shipping on all items in the shop.<br />
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Although I have not posting much on the blog since the beginning of October, I have been making lot of art on variety of surfaces using several different media. The picture above and immediately below are chalk drawings on oil cloth.<br />
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The two below were drawn for the Inktober challenge using India ink on vintage music and map pages.<br />
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The one below is my current passion: painting on rocks. I think there are about two dozen here!<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-8135194516504891092017-09-23T20:28:00.003-04:002017-09-23T20:28:43.821-04:00Reading List<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Though I spend a lot of time doing art, I also make time to read, fiction and non-fiction. Yesterday, I made a list of all the books I finished in the last 3-4 months. I have also rated them, five </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> stars being the highest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. Perumal Murugan: Seasons of the Palm (English translation from Tamil)*****</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. Hari Kunzru: White Tears ****</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. Akhil Sharma: Family Life ***1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">4. Stephen King: On Writing ***1/2 (non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">5. Walter Mosley: Charcoal Joe ****</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">6. Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones ****1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">7. Joe Ide: IQ ****1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">8. Rahul Mehta: No Other World *** 1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">9. Kathleen Collins: Whatever Happened to Interracial Marriage ****1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">10. Rakesh Satyal: Nobody Can Pronounce My Name ***1/2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">11. Lisa Congdon: Art Inc. **** (non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">12. Austin Kleon: Show Your Work ***1/2 (non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">13. John Farrell: Richard Nixon (non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">14. Elizabeth Strout: Anything is Possible</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As you can see, my taste in fiction runs towards either those written by non-white authors or about non-white lives. It was not always so. When I first started reading English fiction, there were only books written by whites and almost all men. Thankfully, in the last two decades, the world of book publication has expanded significantly to include Black, Asian, Latino and gay voices. More importantly, the local libraries are also stocking them in greater numbers. In the list above, all but three were borrowed from my local library. It is my guess that my town library relies on the New York Times Book Review and its best seller list to help determine its purchases and that works out fine for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What have you been reading in recent times? Any from my list? Please share in the comment section.</span></div>
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I am presently in India visiting my sister in Chennai, Tamilnadu. I brought with me just a few select art supplies: watercolors and chalk pastels. Surprisingly, chalk has turned out to be easiest and most effective way to create art on the fly. With just a 9"x 11" reusable vinyl chalkboard cloth and a box of colored chalks and a few wet paper towels, I am able to capture the fleeting images of life here in Chennai. Chalk art, by definition, is ephemeral. My visit too is of short duration. Somehow, the medium and the subject seem to have found each other.<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-29425332269298344252017-08-30T04:56:00.000-04:002017-08-30T04:56:06.867-04:00 Sights and Sounds of Chennai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am presently visiting my sister in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Chennai in August is a lovely place to be. The weather is pleasant with moderate temperatures. It is the beginning of the monsoon season and the trees and the flowers show off their best colors. The birds feel happy and sing. Even the gaunt strays that dot the landscape look more hopeful and move around with more energy. Below is a sample of the sights and sounds of Chennai in August<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-66793487452809760912017-08-05T19:00:00.001-04:002017-08-05T19:01:34.038-04:00Cats on Rocks!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I never had a pet in my entire life but if I ever got one it would be a cat. Several years ago, my daughter, on one of her visits, brought her cat with her. I greatly enjoyed having that little feline around. Cats I think, make a great subject for art. It is that blank, inscrutable face which lends itself to all kinds of anthropomorphic imagination. An artist can project any kind of emotion (innocence, love, mischief, malice etc) on it and have lots of fun doing it. A cat, obviously, has no way of objecting it!<br />
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These two paintings were done on rocks using acrylic paints.<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-86922808748672750642017-08-03T23:58:00.000-04:002017-08-03T23:58:05.023-04:00Etude in Blue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have always loved blue in all its variations. My preference for blue show up not only in my artwork but also in the clothes I wear and in home decor (the color of the sofa, throw cushions, draperies). The only place where there is no use for blue is in the food I make!<br />
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Of late, I have been making art (in various forms) with lots of blue. It has been quiet intentional, a way of branding my art. I also feel that when I do something in blue it usually comes out better. The picture above and below are little gems created on river rocks. The third picture is a pattern on a blue background drawn on a cigar box inspired by indigo dyed Indian bed linens.<br />
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The last photo below is a pencil sketch I made last night. I leave it to you to guess who it is. In drawing this sketch I followed a tip given by a well known cartoonist which is to focus on the most distinguishing feature of the subject and to exaggerate it, like Carter's teeth, Bill Clinton's nose or Obama's ears. Here I focused on the hairdo. My daughter thinks it is the lips that is the giveaway. You be the judge :)<br />
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A few weeks ago, around the 4th of July weekend, my husband and I took a trip to the Acadia National Park near Bar Harbor, Maine. This was our second visit, the first one occurring two decades ago. A lot has changed in Maine since our last trip. There is far greater diversity (especially racial) in the demographics of the crowds visiting these tourist spots and correspondingly greater diversity in food and restaurant choices.<br />
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What however has remained unchanged is the natural grandeur of the seas and the mountains of the Acadia National Park. The rough waters with forbidding rocky outcrops of the Gulf of Maine that borders one side of the Park is still an awesome sight to hold. On the other side was the Cadillac Mountain with its magnificent views from the top and the beautiful granite rocks lined with green algae and puddles of water. (My chemist husband could not resist pointing out that granite is a radioactive material and that we are waking on a radioactive surface!) Be that as it may, it was still very lovely.<br />
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The original intent of the trip was to do whale and puffin watching on a tour boat. Unfortunately, the trip was cancelled due to heavy fog and rough sea. It looked like this in the morning.<br />
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It improved quiet a bit in the afternoon and we took a shorter boat ride around the bay. We saw several harbor and grey seals lolling on the rocks at low tide. We spent the whole day at Bar Harbor along with hundreds of other tourists. Overall, a pleasant trip, in spite of some minor disappointments, unexpected weather turns and traffic jams.<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-12153667100642472242017-07-16T21:56:00.000-04:002017-07-16T21:56:22.407-04:00Let it Shine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I interpreted this week's theme 'Let it Shine' at Try it on Tuesday in different ways. Since it is summer in northern hemisphere, it could mean the shining of the sun; it could also mean the bright light of summer and its predominant color, yellow.<br />
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The top picture is a watercolor of melted butter in a mason jar. I did it on a coffee filter paper which I first made water resistant with gesso. Here I have tried to capture the transparent quality of both the glass and the liquid and the shine of reflected light on both.<br />
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This painting of sunflowers on a river rock is a more metaphoric interpretation of the theme. These large yellow flowers turning their face throughout the day in the direction of the sun light up the garden with their shine.<br />
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Finally, the one below is a mixed media art where yellow stands for shine.<br />
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I am a yoga bird! A few weeks ago at a yoga retreat at Arsha Vidya Gurukulum in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, as I was shake loose a few pine cones from a spruce tree, two yoginis mistook me for a bird! As they came around the tree and saw me they burst out laughing. I was dressed colorfully in my Indian dress. I decided to memorialize that very amusing incident using a painted bunting.<br />
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A little late in the month but this is my submission for the<a href="https://art-journal-journey.blogspot.com/"> Art Journal Journey Circles</a>. This mixed media piece was created using crackle medium for the background, a vintage ad label and clear glass marbles with pieces of maps adhere on the back. The photo does not do justice to the glass marbles.<br />
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Summer has finally arrived here in New Jersey and the flowers are blooming joyfully.<br />
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These are some of rock paintings I created to donate to the Spring Fair and Plant Sale at Trailside that took place two weeks ago. This was new for me: painting on such a small scale using acrylics. I bought a full bag of rocks from a local landscaping store and used Golden and FolkArt craft paints. It was challenging initially but got better as I did more. What is great about rock painting is that one can create really substantial art at very low cost. I enjoyed doing them a lot and plan to do many more time permitting.<br />
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Indirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938040151576044105noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5219737046426413465.post-41991967050391609402017-05-29T11:57:00.000-04:002017-05-29T11:57:30.486-04:00Spring Fair and Plant Sale at Trailside<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Spring Fair and Plant Sale is a major fundraiser for the Demonstration Garden at Trailside (Watchung Reservation). The master gardeners and the interns in the Master Gardener program put in tremendous amount of time and physical work before and during the fair. This event is particularly useful for interns to pick up significant chunk of volunteer hours needed to complete the program. I was asked to manage the Arts and Crafts section, which ended up being much fun. I made about three dozen catnip toys and half a dozen totes from re-purposed burlap rice bags. There were other items for sale also and we sold $150/ worth of craft items. It was a respectable amount given that the people were there for buying the plants. While at it, I taught a young girl how to make a catnip mouse and gave her a free sample of catnip too. I may have set her on a lifetime of crafty path!<br />
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A little butterfly painted on a little rock nestling in a little wood box. I bought a whole bag of these Mexican beach pebbles from a local garden center for landscaping in my yard. But their nice oval shape and polished surface make for a tempting substrate to paint on.<br />
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It is never truly spring till the birds come to take a bath. After a few late winter storms and freezing temperatures, finally this morning there was this female cardinal luxuriating in a warm bath all fluffed up while the mate watched from the nearby forsythia bush. It was a comforting sight. Then in the afternoon I saw a handful of dark eyed juncos and a robin. Now I can say, spring is here.<br />
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Enrolling in Rutgers Cooperative Extension's Master Gardener program has made plants of all types an ever expanding source of inspiration for my art. As part of the program I will be completing some of the required sixty hours of volunteer work in the herb garden. The herbs above and below were created using papercut techniques.<br />
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The winter storm ten days ago not only caught the humans off-guard but also seemed to have confused the birds and the plants. Though the days are sunny and bright there is still snow on the ground. The birds are quiet and the early spring flowers are dormant. Everything seems to be in a holding pattern.The sketch above and the painting below were inspired by the uncertainty in the air.<br />
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In other news, I got me a new sewing machine Ever Sewn Sparrow 25. Using the new machine, I made two pairs of draperies for the bedroom. There was a little bit of learning curve especially in the threading of the bobbin. But once that was overcome, it was a smooth sailing. </div>
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It was intended to be a simple project: alter a large plain canvas into something that could be hanged over the fireplace. My original plan was to apply a background paint in pink and then cover the entire canvas with doodles using a white puffy paint. In my mind's eye, I had imagined white doodles standing out brightly against the pink background. Alas, it did not turn out that way. It actually looked depressingly vapid!<br />
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It was an improvement from the previous one but still not satisfactory. Then I decided that if I am in for a penny, I might as well be in for a pound. So more layers of doodles and more layers of glazing followed</div>
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After all that, it still looked like a nicely layered background lacking a focal point. I was reluctant to make it into a collage project since it was a large canvas (36"x 24") and would involve days of work. The idea of adding embroidery (or more like string art) came to me in sleep. The next morning, I started on it as soon as I got up.</div>
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An <b>image</b> consecrated and enshrined <b>inside </b>a temple is divine and therefore cannot be photographed or videographed. The same image desacralized and placed inside a glass case in a museum building is a temporal object of <b>interest</b> to be gazed and endlessly captured on film.<br />
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My original plan for the Great Backyard Bird Count which was held from Feb 17 to Feb 20 was to both count the birds that visited my backyard during this period and to paint as many of the birds that visit my backyard throughout the year. The plan started well. On the first day, I counted three dark-eyed juncos and one robin. I did a watercolor of a tufted titmouse (which I had seen the day before the count began). The next day, my husband and I decided on a spur-of-the moment visit to the Hindu Temple at Pittsburgh, which is about 5 1/2 hours drive from where we live. The backyard bird count went by the wayside. I managed to sketch two more birds at the hotel but did not do any watercolor. Coming home I got the flu and that pretty much ended my plan for the GBBC. Now that I am recovered I am hoping to create a few more watercolor birds. </div>
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In other news, the March-April issue of Cloth Paper Scissors has featured two of my art projects: the wall mural I had done in my living room and a submission to the mixed-media studio accessory. Doing a happy dance!</div>
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First there was snow and then there were icicles. Then the high winds that kept you awake at night. Supposed to warm up this week. Let us see.<br />
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