Archive for the 'Art' Category

Apr 25 2010

Starry Owl

Published by Jennifer under Art

As I mentioned a few days ago, I’ve been doing some art shopping lately and for one more print I had to get – “Starry Owl” by Susie Ghahremani.   It’s cute & simple, and I adore it (I have a thing for owls and night-time magic anyway): You can see this and more of her [...]

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Apr 22 2010

Art Shopping

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"Minotaur" by Shag

This week I’ve been doing a bit of art shopping.  We recently painted some of the walls of our home in bright colors including aqua, orange-cream, pink, and light green and are now finding bright new pictures to match. So my favorite piece that we’ve gotten so far is a signed, numbered, limited edition of [...]

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Dec 18 2009

2009 Sugar Art Show

Published by Jennifer under Art,Eats,Photos

"A Moment in Time" - Cake from the 2009 Sugar Art Show in Tulsa, OK

Now that I have the proper content width for displaying photos, I thought it was high time I posted some of the best photos (and some of the best times!) from this year here. These photos of numerous cute and amazing cakes were all taken at the Sugar Art Show – the largest competition of [...]

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Jul 25 2009

It’s Tiki Time!

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Tiki Room Print by Amanda Visell

A recent trip to Disneyland (photos should follow) spurred on a new re-design idea – convert the music room into an (enchanted?) musical tiki room based off of this Amanda Visell piece created for the 45th Anniversary of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room: Check out Amanda Visell’s other art, too – I like it so [...]

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Dec 01 2008

101 Things for Which I’m Thankful

Christine & Natasha in Grandpa

Since I have so much to be thankful for, and since it is Thanksgiving, I wanted to do a stream-of-consciousness post on 101 things I’m thankful for.  I thought about ordering them at first, but that just didn’t seem right somehow. 1. Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha, Natasha; my sweetest of sweets daughter.  I’ve been ‘in [...]

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Oct 30 2008

The Results of Smalti 101

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Well – I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office. So here’s what I made – three tree-themed [...]

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Oct 09 2008

Dale Chihuly Blown Glass Art in OKC

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The OKC Art Museum is just wrapping up their Roman Art from the Louvre exhibition and my family and I made sure we cought it while it was in town.  While we found this to be interesting, what we all really enjoyed were the modern art collections that the museum houses, especially the Dale Chihuly blown glass [...]

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Sep 17 2008

The Beginnings of a Mosaic

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Smalti mosaic tiles

I decided to figure out what mosaic I was going to do once I got to my 2nd class and saw the colored tiles that I had ordered up close and personal, and once I saw them I know what I wanted to do.  (It was a little disconcerting to see that most everyone else [...]

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Sep 13 2008

SMALTI

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Smalti mosaic tile

My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class – as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art: I chose lots of blues and greens – at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but [...]

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Sep 09 2008

Smalti Italian Mosaics!

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Jesus Christ, a Byzantine mosaic in the interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.

My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class – I’m so excited!  We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it!  The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]

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