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Rose Bowl Vase and BBs

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Rose vase and bbs
Rose bowl vase and BBs

I have been working a lot with markers lately and have had them turn up everywhere. I’ve found them embedded in my recliner, strewn across my studio table and in hiding in my pockets. I knew I wanted something that would let me flare the markers outwards so I could see the colors and get to them easily.

After a trip to my china cabinet, I came back with this rose bowl vase. It worked somewhat but I needed something in the bottom to raise the markers higher in the vase. I remembered the BBs I used once for stuffing in a bookmark and poured them very carefully into the glass vase. I did it carefully because glass is one of those things that will surprise you with its strength and with its weaknesses and BBs are heavy for their size.The BBs weight turned out to be serendipitous as that weight keeps the vase from tipping and sliding.

Anything that has the relative weight of the BBs can be used instead of the BBs. Aquarium gravel would look good and you could match colors if you wished.

I am pleased too that the markers are really pretty and look as if they were a bouquet of flowers in the center of my table.

-Lynne

What A Cat

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I lay in bed and struggle to wake up. I have to untwine myself from a few cats and often a dog sleeping by my feet. I try to be gentle, but I do know their reaction time is a lot faster than mine. I am always thankful that I don’t feed them the canned food in the morning, otherwise they would wake me at the crack of dawn. As I fill the cats and dog dishes with “dry food” I start the computer and get ready to post my daily cat picture on Facebook.

About 4 months ago I purchased a book from Amazon called “A Daily Creativity Journal”. This book was written by Noah Scalin, he is the artist that did a skull a day for a year. My daily project evolved into drawing a picture of our cat Link, doing an activity each day. When I started posting these on Facebook, I wrote a back story explaining that I had found a photo album that Link had kept hidden and I was posting some of his pictures. Link has had some awesome adventures so far and still has many, many more to go.

This project has added another dimension to my life. As I drive to work I start thinking about what I want to draw him doing. He has been an astronaut, a race car driver, he has been an actor and appeared in several movies, he has been a monster and occasionally, but rarely, he has been a girl. People have even given me suggestions and sometimes I am able to use them. Each day is a challenge coming up with something new, but it is a happy challenge. In 4 months, I have not missed a picture yet. Even when I come home dead tired and I can’t do anything, I draw a picture of Link. It really is a massive undertaking, but it seems like it is the right direction for me at this time. I hope you enjoy seeing them half as much as I enjoy drawing them.

-Cheri