Finally Pinery 1

8:29 PM Saturday, May 28, 2011

Finally, we left the flooded basements behind and are camping up at the Pinery!  YAY!

The bad news is that it started raining.  The good news is that the rain seems to be dwindling again.

We are camped right in the dunes!

9:19 AM Sunday, May 29, 2011

Right after I said that the rain was dwindling, it de-dwindled and turned into a full-fledged rain which lasted all evenings and all night.

Luckily, our tent did not leak.

It was damp in there, but not wet.

This morning, everything is wet, and the sky is a mass of grey, and the air is thick with humidity from the rain, but -- knock knock -- it is not actually raining --yet.

Keith is making breakfast, bacon and eggs, on the old camp stove that belonged to Ma and Pa.

Love, Mary, Sent from my iPad

Meditations on the Vishanas of Gluttony

In Mike's Round Three Mole.

1)Meditation of the Vishanas of Gluttony I. Carp is considered a delicacy by some people. Here is a plate of well-cleaned carp. I do not, by any means, intend to imply that everyone who eats carp is a glutton.

2)Meditation of the Vishanas of Gluttony II. Here is the lone worm from the collaboration between Mike and Roma. The hungry carp want the worm and gulls want the carp and the hawks want the gulls and so on. It is also called "ripples." I kept giving this piece different names, e.g.: "Food Chain." And others.

3)The two page spread, captured with a little point 'n' shoot. Won't fit on the scanner. Ha ha, I just noticed you can see the tablecloth drawn in the first one behind the drawing in this one! :-D. Unintentional!

4)Meditation of the Vishanas of Gluttony III. Pocket item. IPad sketch on artrage.

The Vishanas are Habit Energies, in case anyone isn't familiar with them. Well, everyone, of course, is familiar with them in some ways. LOL! :-D

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Going away camping in Canada (Pinery) for a long weekend.

Visit DD! See me reading poetry

This is a screen shot from my Detroit Photo Blog (originally called Detroit Daily, but I've given up the "dailiness" of it! Too busy.) To read the rest of it, click here. And thank you to all my friends who came to support me, I really appreciate it!!!!!! THANK YOU!! I thought the reading went fairly well, other than my getting the papers mixed up! :-(

(No, there is no audio, just the rest of this picture and the rest of the words.)

A Collaboration with Gretchen in Mike's Round 3 Moleskine

Apologies to Gretchen, Mike and Aya for taking those absolutely gorgeous delicately rendered sunglasses and putting them on a pig. I felt driven to do so for some reason. Aya, you can print the original post by Gretchen and make something else out of it for her!

The scan never comes out quite like the original. I've included a detail because it doesn't show up right in the scan.

My part was done in Faber-Castelle PITT pigment artists pens and gel pens. A touch of oil pastel on the glasses. Gretchen's pens are much nicer than mine--Gretchen, tell me again what kind of pens they are.

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go look at Imagik

here is a collaboration I did for Ammon to complete, Read about it here: Imagik. This not the actual post. It is only a screen shot.

two small meditations in Mike's Moleskine Sketchbook

I tried to do what Mike said he did, which was free-drawing, starting out with no idea and seeing where it takes you. Mike is much better at it than I am, I think do better if I at least plan a little. The lower one was a free-drawing and the upper one, which I did second, was inspired by the first (lower). These are both done with Faber-Castell PITT artist pigment pens. I may try more of these in Mike's sketchbook, but since I'm experimenting, no guarantees on the results! YIKES! Scary! (As usual, click images to view somewhat larger.)

A Walk with Caroline

On Monday, Caroline and I had lunch at Blufin--a fabulous, tasty (if pricey) lunch, read each other's poetry, and then walked at Pier Park. We walked and talked and looked at dead things on the beach, mussel shells, perch that a gull was eating, crayfish (we only found the claws), bluegills and pumpkinseeds, and a plethora of think dried out crumbling fish. I told her how I loved the dead carp with their wide scales and bony skulls. I was afraid she might think I was a nutcase, but she seemed to accept that--and then we found a carp. I came home and painted it for her. Click on the image to see it larger.

Lotus Meditation for Lost Souls

This is done (by me) in Faber-Castell PITT Artist brush pens, pens, pencils, colored pencils. The second is the two-page spread. It wouldn't fit on my scanner so I took a snap. Sorry about the reflections. Image size increases slightly when clicked upon.

Lotus Meditation for Lost Souls

This is done (by me) in Faber-Castell PITT Artist brush pens, pens, pencils, colored pencils. The second is the two-page spread. It wouldn't fit on my scanner so I took a snap. Sorry about the reflections. Image size increases slightly when clicked upon.

Blood from a Stone, pocket items

The first one is a sort of continued collaboration with Steve Loya. I loved his splotch monster so much, that is, my version of it, posted here, that I made a second one with the Virginia character on the top, turned the other way. I gave her a whip and a flower. The painting is water color and unfortunately, I made it way too big to fit in a pocket, so I made two small prints, one for Mike, and one for Roma.

The second one is for mike, for his pocket, in his round 2 mole.

I have two moles at my house now, Roma's round 3 and Mike's from round 2. I am currently working on a piece in Roma's which I had hoped to finish last night but was thwarted by my own slowness. Click images to view larger.