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Tag: Art

  • Teaching LEGO Art with Free Printable Lesson Plan!

    Teaching LEGO Art with Free Printable Lesson Plan!

    Yes, Lego is Art! The first time I considered LEGO as an art form was in response to a television special on LEGO Artists. I was amazed to see what these brilliant people can do with Legos as a medium! As I considered ways to bring Lego Art into our homeschool — I thought, “Why…

  • Looking UP- Art in Las Vegas!

    Looking UP- Art in Las Vegas!

    I feel like I’m curating beauty with my camera in places I stumble upon in my life all the time. I was blessed to sit in this gallery for hours where I sat, prayed, and read “When words were inadequate to describe the light of nature’s art, God created film.” Thanks, Jeff Mitchum! Here’s a slideshow of a…

  • The Air is Thick

    The air is thick Engulfed Humidity Activity Aromas of latte, Spending, and Cologne People. But also Him. Them. In the chaos there is peace Calm Rest The world is a blur. Small conversations escalate around Escalators move to the next entertainment destination We sit at peace In silence. Creating Thinking Wondering Occasionally a word is…

  • transcending cub scouts with art…

    Tonight I led a round table of six second-grade cub scouts through a recreation of  Picasso’s life and “Mains aux Fleurs.” I pray the art they created transcended the den meeting and it’s permanently mixed in their minds that when they mix red and yellow something beautiful is born and when they present someone with…

  • Be a brush to paint the world with Life

    I don’t remember where I stumbled upon that quote ages ago, but it has stuck with me- perhaps painted a bit of its truth in my heart. Perhaps it is because I am an artist whose heart and desire to create beauty was shut inside for many years and now is bursting out like a…