rtsallie

Selfie Sunday

Road Trip!

The wife and I drove to Vassar yesterday to watch our youngest child play basketball for Swarthmore College in a season opener showcase. This morning we explored the Vassar’s beautiful 1000-acre campus. I almost wished I had packed a “real” camera. However, I did enjoy snapping away with my old, tired IPhone SE 2020.

Testing Charcoal and Graphite

I have 30 years of charcoal and graphite that I have purchased and did not use.

Hands and Heads

As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am auditing art classes at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts, taught by Jeff Nesbit. I layered water soluble graphite, purple watercolor paint and gesso to make a ground. A ground, short for background, is a base used to prepare a support for drawing or aContinue reading “Hands and Heads”

Ears

Bean Harvest

This was the first year in a long time that I have planted black beans. The colorful ones are dragon tongue beans. The white ones are brush green bean seeds saved to plant next year.

Light Box Photography

This week’s substitute teaching assignment is photography. Today the intermediate class explored using a light box. Students brought objects from home that are special to them.

Pen Practice

October Gallery

October Notes

Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. Jamokes ~ an ordinary, unimpressive, or inept person —typically used as a term of mild or joking disparagement for a man. Also spelled jamook, giamoke, and giamope, the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan orContinue reading “October Notes”