More Retablos, Closer Up These are not the most accomplished photos, but I am so happy at having retrieved them from the bowels of the “Photos” labyrinth, that I’m posting them. They are a few of the more formal “Retablo” series that I’ll be displaying January 31 from 10-3 in addition to the “Found Art” […]
The first photo below shows why I have been spending so much time in the studio lately—best view in the house. Well, that and the fact that I’m campused with the rest of the world. The other photos show the general state of the environment within, including a bit of the work nearing completion. I’m […]
These are two of my older retablos–both pretty colorful! Although the retablos were sold many years ago, I found these photos on an old photo disk. The top one is about 5 inches wide, the bottom one probably about 15 inches high. Click on photos to enlarge. For The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Saturated
. Jeff Brown’s contribution to the challenge. The below commentary is by Jeff’s wife Debbie. Jeff is my artist stepson who lives in California. If Debbie would send some photos, I will send you […]
Earlier tonight, I was surprised to see Kelley Farrell’s blog entitled “Pin Cushions Look Like Tomatoes” because the pin cushion she pictures is exactly the pin cushion I developed an entire large retablo around a number of years ago. Below is my retablo and the story it develops. This retablo, which includes a number of […]
Bob and I, early 1990’s Matt asked us to tell him about the origins of our blog name, so here goes: The original name of my blog was “Grieflessons.” Why Grieflessons? When my husband Bob and I bought a house in Mexico in 2001, little did we know I would be moving into it without […]
This is a guest blog I wrote for Matt Estes’ blog three years ago, but I can’t find that I ever posted it on my own blog, so here it is. If you remember reading it here, I stand to be corrected: When I was asked to write a guest blog about finding happiness in […]
Someone on a social site I post on once stated that he couldn’t understand the contradiction between my statement that I was an agnostic and the fact that a number of my retablos made use of images of the Virgin of Guadalupe. I answered that for me, she was a symbol of that gentle, loving, […]
Lately, several people have asked to see what I as doing before I moved to Mexico and started making retablos and writing this blog. When I searched for the word “study,” today’s prompt word, in my blog files, this blog published four years ago was one of the posts that came up and since […]
The Second Coming *Today I received a Facebook from a gallery owner/artist Jesus Lopez Vega that he would like to have me display in a show he is staging in November. I replied that I’m in the States, but he could stop by my house and pick some pieces up from my house sitter, […]
