The Looking Up patches continue apace … here are the first three weeks in February, along with my new 2022 calendar from Saskia …
Don’s been getting the back garden ready for spring and beginning to put up some of the assemblage yard art from the Hill Country house (note: this is a panoramic image which is why everything looks bowed … the lot is actually about 65’ across) …
Parker helped create a new piece (click to see full images) ..
We also did some doodling and drawing together, inspired by a class recommended by Deb G. P took hers home, but here’s one of mine (with more to come) …
Meanwhile, Jace was busy in St Louis doing his own doodling in a Mo Willem’s book we sent him for Valentine’s Day …
And “poof” … there went February (well, almost).
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What a joyful, colorful and creative Feb for all of you…love your coloring and I remember when my grands read the Mo Willem books. Parker and Don make good art and I especially like the nails dancing across the board.
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As soon as I read of Don creating and placing yard art, I thought I wonder if those rusty square nails ever became useful? Then I saw nails and a canning jar I know well. Perhaps I am right? I love how color-filled this post is and how art just runs through your family! Now I want to color too 🙂
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yes … you’re right … those are the nails you sent!
I took the class with the goal of getting more comfortable with doodling and coloring like a kid … just to have fun
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Well, well, well…that makes me so happy! They have such history, such story and now that continues!
Big love to y’all!
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yes, February, poof
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the passage of time keeps accelerating …
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what a fun class, love the artwork for your fence! and of course the stitching!
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good morning Susan … it’s so good to see you here!
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Yes all that yard art looks wonderful .. such fun. One man’s trash definitely becomes another’s treasure. Another saying .. time fly’s so so true.
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When we moved here two years ago the yard was an absolutely blank slate … Don took his time creating the raised beds which were planted with perennials last fall … quite a change from our previous five acre project … and yes, time is fleeting
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creative energy oozing from this post, love the many collaborations
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we love encouraging their making … and making alongside them
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I just love the finger-on-the-cheek — Parker considering. Already an artist!
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she knows her mind, for sure … and we are having much fun stoking the artistic fires in our grandkids
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LA – love that Feb just went poof – just demonstrates the amount you and yours packed into it. Love the installations in the back garden – totally claiming the space. So special that Parker will be able to see, enjoy and point out her art. It is grand that the children all want to create. Go well. Barry
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it will be fun to watch Don’s raised beds wake up from their winter slumber … and it is my dearest hope that our grandkids remember how much we loved to make things …
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Love all of this Liz! Such a gift you give to your grandchildren…. The assemblage with the nails and saw blade is so wonderful! I have been collecting the tools that my dad has been giving me; some of his, my grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s, and trying to decide what to do with them. Some I still use, others I have started adding to shelves to have them close. Love seeing your doodle. I will be doing more, although probably not with acrylic paints once I run out of what I have.
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Don has tons of acrylic paints, but if I do any painting it will likely be with Inktense … mostly I expect to be drawing with P using markers and colored pencils
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Loving those little patches, Liz. Looks like you’re all enjoying some creative therapy there 🙂
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small is all I seem up to right now … if that …
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I love a garden full of sculpture, especially the ones you make yourselves. That piece of Don’s and Parker’s is truly magnificent. The looking up project shows so many lovely moments and doodling looks like mind-relaxing stuff to share alongside each other. 1/6 of the year gone already. Amazing – so much happens time has become very fluid…go well.
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I can’t help but picture the Queensland “rain bomb” as I ponder the import of time being fluid
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Indeed…And then I thought of how your looking up would have looked here for the past wee while. Very grey with lots of dots!
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Ha! … but seriously, glad things weren’t worse for you and Barry
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Super excited about Don’s sculptural garden as well as the creativity that flows thru your entire family. You and Don are creating so many wonderful memories with your grands.
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Thanks Deb … P and Don made more yard art yesterday … will post soon
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I LOVE that new sculpture hanging on the wall. It looks amazing, especially when all the rest of the work will be done ! Enjoy it !
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thanks Annick … we’re also looking forward to the plants leafing up … spring is definitely in the air
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this touches deep….how doing these things together is i think, so much more than Art.
is weaving ourSelves together, our spirits….the child’s weaving into ours, ours into the
childs creating a Real Thing that is invisible to the eye but what humanity is made of
Thank you for these images. Love and Love, Liz
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I have started and then deleted several responses … trying to express the hope that what we do with the children of our children (and their children) will dwell in them, be a part of them, forever …
and thank you for your images, too
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