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Alison's Open Sketchbook: Raising Rhetoricians
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Monday, July 20, 2015. The school is not a place where students are fitted into the groove of rule and regulation, but where personality and originality of vision are encouraged, and inventive genius in the search for specific expression is stimulated. Prior to the technique as a cause for the latter, contrary to the academic idea, which is the reverse. I am saying this with reference to the 'hard grind' and 'grammar' ideas. Hard grind! For the expression of what? Those meek students, plodding away, afra...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: The Mother of Invention
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Saturday, February 14, 2015. The Mother of Invention. Them that's got shall get. Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible said. And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have. But God bless the child that's got his own. That's got his own. Holiday and Herzog, "God Bless The Child". The last article I wrote for SDMW. Why do the successes seem to exacerbate the vices? What is an addict, but a person held in bondage to himself (as all people are, by nature)? Are demonstrations of that bondage. It was no...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: August 2015
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Saturday, August 22, 2015. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Law, Love, Creation: a collection of selectively-edited quotations. 8220;You are in love, and I will venture to go a step further - you are unhappily in love.”. 8220;Does it show? 8220;Very clearly. A woman happily in love, she burns the souffle; a woman unhappily in love. She forgets to turn on the oven.”. 8220; Boredom is not neutral. It is the fertilizing principle of unloveliness.”. Robert Farrar Capon, Supper of the Lamb. Also, Kindle format!
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Sister, Daughter, Mother, Wife: The Heroic Aspect of Embroidery (From the Archives)
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Sister, Daughter, Mother, Wife. Living Our Vocations as Lutheran Women. Aug 7, 2015. The Heroic Aspect of Embroidery (From the Archives). We're all busy. Yet perhaps we would be well-served by taking time to create something that might seem worthless. Doing so would at least help to avoid the burden of the boring life that Mary Moerbe wrote about. Here's an article about "worthless" creativity that first ran last year. By Anna Ilona Mussmann. A waste of time. If the materialists are correct and we hu...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: July 2014
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Friday, July 25, 2014. Art in the Household of Faith, Part 2. Since I grew up with such meaningful Christian art in the home of my childhood, I'd been wondering about what kind of home art tradition I wanted to establish for my kids. We've had so many family moves that establishing just about anything house-wise has proved difficult, but since I know for sure we'll be staying put here for at least the next year (and the oldest child is growing up way too fast! Wall art. Finally, I have it! It won't be de...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: Law, Love, Creation: a collection of selectively-edited quotations
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Law, Love, Creation: a collection of selectively-edited quotations. 8220;You are in love, and I will venture to go a step further - you are unhappily in love.”. 8220;Does it show? 8220;Very clearly. A woman happily in love, she burns the souffle; a woman unhappily in love. She forgets to turn on the oven.”. 8220; Boredom is not neutral. It is the fertilizing principle of unloveliness.”. Robert Farrar Capon, Supper of the Lamb. Also, Kindle format! 8220; A Sketch:. Of these thing...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: Last Week of July, 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Last Week of July, 2015. R U [T] H". Trying out different (human, animal) kinds of features (mouths, mostly):. Making good use of the whole canvas:. Constructive shapes (and some layering):. One of my favorites of hers - neat composition; use of color, shape, line). Gotta love those full skirts). There's such a contrast between Joshie's crayon drawings and his pen sketches. I enjoy his detailed line drawings, but I think he's really in his element with color. He Remembers the Barren.
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: February 2015
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Saturday, February 14, 2015. Only a Paper Valentine. Ruthie drawing Jesus - with Unikitty at the foot of His cross. Unikitty by request, I helped). Joshie's Minecraft cooking instructions. I can't remember if this was for cooked chicken or porkchops):. Raw meat coal/oven = cooked meat. More crafting instructions (involving diamond ore, I would guess),. With little sister improving upon his methods. The Lutheran Valentine I submitted to this contest. Because it was the winner. I love when kids start to 'w...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. Draughtsmen and Other Unmentionables. For me, becoming a really good painter would make me feel like I've 'made it' with art. I've mentioned before that there's been kind of a historical hierarchy within the fine arts: drawing, then painting, then sculpture. Or, a sculptor. Because 3-dimensions are better than 2-). So, to give myself a challenge and a nudge toward a more respectable art form, I recently had an idea ( try painting. And I tried a few different things,. People who p...
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Alison's Open Sketchbook: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Madonna and Child Wrap-Up. Elder son wanted to be Boba Fett, helmet painted to sort of match the Iron Man suit he already had. I think it's safe to say my Madonna and Child project is done, so here's a recap, with the finished work at the end, if you'd rather just scroll right down. So, we went from this canvas I bought (someone else's work -very streamlined, but difficult for a 5-year-old to discern):. Last week, this:. And, this week, this:. Saturday, October 18, 2014. 8220;wh...
