Author: Scarlett

Art With Children, Photography

Mice on Main

Main Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, is filled with art!  Art was everywhere: on the walls, in the windows, and on the ground!  As we explored the fountain area, we discovered that art was also hidden all around! A bronze plaque on the streetside of the fountain explains the […]

Christian Art, Mixed-Media Art

Distich Flash Cards

A distich is two lines of Jewish poetry.  You are probably familiar with distiches if you have read through Proverbs.  As our family has read through Proverbs the last few months, I noticed that there were several different ways these two lines of poetry were arranged.  Upon further investigation, I discovered […]

Photography

Annie at The New Bass

              I love musicals! On Friday night, S. and I had the pleasure of going to see Annie! I was also anxious to finally get a look at the new Bass Concert Hall, with it’s $14.7 million dollar facelift completed.  What a difference! It […]

Art With Children, Photography

Figure On A Trunk

The Bass Concert Hall in Austin, TX currently has a collection of 30 sculptures on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  They are scattered around the grounds and inside the newly renovated lobby.  The sculpture directly in front of the main entrance quickly grabs your attention.  For fun we tried to […]

Painting

Once In A Lifetime Oil Painting

   In the Fall of 2005 I took an oil painting class.  I had seen an advertisement posted in Hobby Lobby.  The ad gave the name and phone number of an instructor that taught the painting techniques of the “old masters”.   Old Masters?   Wow.   I signed up. I would never have  guessed […]

Photography

Giant Sunflower Countdown

I planted my sunflowers about the same time I started this blog.  In fact, one of my earliest posts was about how my daughter helped me plant them and saw the first sprouts after a rain shower.  I remember looking forward to taking some photos of them when they opened.  And now, the first […]