Archive for the ‘Art!’ Category

March 20, 2008 2

Play

By in Art!, toys

We’ve been busy playing with Playmobil toys lately. I had a few when I was a kid, but I tended to beg for Lego’s more. There’s quite a great collection here now, and we’ve been spending lots of time with it. I narrate crazy stories about princesses and princes and elves and kings that die […]

January 6, 2008 2

Art:Made by Me

By in Art!, love, we have fun

I took art all through high school but never really got into painting. I’d convinced myself that you can be an artist without using paint (which I still believe) but when a person is surrounded, constantly, by paintings, paint, canvases, brushes, all of it, that person might start getting crazy ideas. Lord knows I did. […]

December 18, 2007 0

Art: Made for Me

By in Art!, making stuff is good, we have fun

I have been blessed, over the years, to be friends with artists who like me enough to make beautiful paintings for me. It’s different than going to an art gallery and just buying something you like, it’s more personal than that. And so, a history: 1. Tony Holiday made this for me back when his […]