Back to my Earth Calendar. Today is a special day for the people of the Baha’i faith. The mission of the Baha’i is is to spiritually unify all the people and all religions of the world. Although painfully idealistic,that’s something I truly believe in myself! The temples of the Baha’i are really something. The most […]
View post →Eino Leino was a Finnish poet who emphasized nature, love and pain in his work. Today is his day.
View post →Today, in Australia, is Children’s Day. The official international day to celebrate our children is , I believe, in June. I took this photo a few years back. If I wasn’t busy with the camera, I think I would have seriously considered joining in! So, even if you aren’t in Australia, celebrate a kid today […]
View post →Today, of course is Independence Day for the U.S.A. It’s a day for BBQ’s, clambakes, fireworks and loungechairs. Except for the clambake, I’ve done it all this extended holiday weekend. Greg and I even got the chance to go out drawing again. We went to one of our favorite spots, Rockefeller Center. There was no […]
View post →Today the is the Festival of Cerridwen. She is a medieval Welsh enchantress, goddess of fertility, wisdom, and everything feminine. My favorite of her many gifts is her ability to shapeshift. She is also known as the “White Sow”, and is associated with the color turquiose.
View post →Today is Flag Day in Curacao and it’s also Salvation Army Founders Day. I thought it would be cool to combine the two for today’s sketch. And so…a new flag that shows the act of giving and receiving:
View post →So, again, I look to my earth calendar and see that today, amongst many holidays observed around the globe by various countries, Somalia celebrates its indepedence. Somalia is in great contrast with the country I mentioned in my last post -Denmark. We don’t ever really get good news coming out of this country on the […]
View post →I have been having a great time these last few days, going out and drawing in the city with my husband and my baby James. We’ve been picking a place to go each morning and, after breakfast, we are on our way! Here are a couple of drawings I made as I people watched in […]
View post →According to my “earth†calendar, today is Midsummer Party day in Denmark. Many northern European countries celebrate Midsummer by building bonfires and having lots of fun. It’s origins go waaay back. Recently, I read how Denmark has been deemed the happiest country in the world. I remember being very intrigued by this and wondered how […]
View post →A few years back, I had the opportunity to get up close and personal with a couple of (very large) horses. I mainly did a lot of shooting that day as their handler had them trotting, galloping and doing all kinds of things. But as I was looking through the photos recently, I found a […]
View post →We first got together to build an illustration promotional piece, and we ended up working on a project that is very dear to us. Fellow Studio 1482 members Michele Bedigian, Greg Betza, Dominick Santise and I created what we call Seasons of 1482. It is the beginning of something great! Here is what the actual […]
View post →so james is officially crawling. there he goes reaching for his toys, stopping to study the most interesting bit of lint. see how he waves as he passes by. hi james!!
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