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u·til·i·tar·i·an designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive. I wonder if that first man that made the first marks with...

I tried to get a photo with no wet paint glare, but it wasn't to be. And I may have lost the plot a bit but I'll just adlib as I start...

LOL, Maybe the first caveman would argue with him and deny that it's even art. That he was just doing it for fun. He doesn't know...

It became art for art's sake when the Neanderthals make abstract lines, dots, and hand outlines. Everyone hung out in the caves. It...

Why do you make art? I do it because it's fun. We need to have fun and create. It was the same back then. They would have had some...

Sure it was.

Thank you Terri. Trying to stay away from flowers for a little. 😄

So, a new year, a new excursion. I am going to paint in a response mode and not carry any preconceived notions of the what the finished...

Yup, everything is functional. If it was from pure wonder and creativity that the first man sketched a stick figure in the mud, that...

Does not the bee find the flower pretty? Is the bird not happy to see the lovely ripe red berry? Was not early man overjoyed to see...

I don't understand, so please, help me. I don't believe in magic. Ex nihil, nihil fit. I think that cultures, families, tribes...

Visiting my parents in Canada for the holidays. My mum makes really nice frames with butterflies/moths and other insects she pins. I've...

I have done some, many moons ago. I printed onto material, and paper. From my POV my products got lots of compliments, but I felt they...

Sunday morning walk around the block... Red-faced mousebird Karoo thrush Cape sparrow Very wet early summer = moss on tree...

More hands....or feet.