found by sara

It wasn’t a good day.  

But drawing helps, a little.

It was a dark and stormy night.

In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.  Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky.  Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground.

the house shook.

Wrapped in her quilt, Meg shook.

—A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle

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This week during my “MAKE ART WITH KIDS” volunteer time, we were making mixed-media winter scenes.  There were qtips.  There was glitter.  There were pompoms.  There was lots, and lots, and lots of paint.  It was extremely messy and extremely fun.

The best quote of the night came from a little girl (about four years old) who had ended up covered in paint:  “Wow!  I have art all over my hands!”

She totally did, too.

Anyway, this is one of the projects I made while talking, laughing, and playing with the kids.  

It’s kind of funny—I do a lot of projects for myself, using all kinds of “sophisticated” equipment and supplies.  But this painting—fingerpainted tempera, crayon, and glitter on blue construction paper—is my favorite thing I’ve done in ages.

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Sometimes, instead of actually sleeping

I just make art about how much I should be sleeping.

Fourth in a series.

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Third in a series.  

One of my favorite things to do is walk around with a camera on a sunny day.  It’s not even the photography bit that really gets me—but to hold a camera is a mental prompt to look at the the world in a different way.  To examine the tiniest of details, frame the most mundane things, step back and view the whole world at once as a swirl of light and color.

Thrilling and joyful, to seek and find such beauty in such common (and, perhaps, therefore beautiful) places.

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