Jim Denevan

Artist Jim Denevan goes to great lengths to create art that is.... likely to be gone within a few days.

His tools include sticks, brooms,  and trucks. His pieces are large enough to be seen by planes. Can you imagine going to a beach and seeing patterns that stretches across the entirety of the sand?

Jim, who is also a chef,  has another project, Outstanding in the Field. It is a food tour of sorts that has been sold out at many locations. The idea is fresh food, with the farmers and the diners at the table.
There are a number of tickets available for this summer.

Sigalit Landau

I don't remember where or when I first saw this, but it is an image that has stayed with me. It's just so beautiful.


There are snippets of her work here.

James Mylne and Bic

The artist, James Mylne, creates mostly with Bic pen.
 According to his blog, :
"he set up the first website dedicated to supplying information and promoting the use of
ballpoints in fine art (www.birodrawing.co.uk). "


His youTube channel is here.

Current Works in Progress.

The weather has been very un-Boston-like the last week. It's warm and sunny.  This affords me an opportunity to get out on the front porch and paint.  Here are two pieces that I am working on.


Work In Progress, 36x48, acrylic on canvas


Work In Progress, 30x40, acrylic on canvas

Oh No (email problems and me)

Over on my website, HMCraigArt.com, there is a contact me form. With a cool email address.
When I configured the email, I had set it up to forward to my gmail account (it's just easier having one email place considering my inability to remember multiple things like log-ins and passwords).  I emailed myself (heather at hmcraigart.com), and got an email in my in-box. Cool. Looks like it's working.


But, I haven't gotten email (from wonderful fantastic people).  I've actually been kind of bummed because of it. But, I didn't fret. Life goes on.


Yesterday, I was talking to my mother. She asked if I got an email. No, no I did not. She told me she sent it to my website address.                      Uh oh.


So, this morning I get into the super secret email (had to remember how to get into it). There are emails from wonderful people!  Oh my goodness!!     I am happy, but feel ashamed for not having enough marbles to figure this out earlier.

So, my apologies. I will be reading and getting to them this weekend.

And then I'm going to figure out how to forward them.

Quote

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.  They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.  ~Lydia M. Child

photo by kackiejane on flickr

Road ID

To say that I am clutzy would obviously be an understatement.  Who trips on an easy two mile run and gets brain damage? Moi. Number one offender right here. But does my clutziness stop me....??

You got your answer right here, folks. Where's my star spangled jumpsuit?

Before my brain injury happened,  and when I started training for the Half-Ironman, I assessed my history of stunts/accidents. I've been in the emergency room a few times. My favorite stunt that won me a trip to the emergency room was when I was mountain biking with G.  I had just learned how to do drops, and was feeling pretty full of myself. That's when I was thinking more about pizza and awesomeness than actually keeping track of what I was riding.  I hit an "invisible" stump so hard that I ended up losing control of my Giant Iguana, flew over the handlebars and did a move like superman across gravel (watch a video of a similar crash at the link).  When the dust settled, I had torn up my forearm from my elbow to my wrist. I was getting blood on my jersey.  Emergency room, here we go*...