The Littlest Altar Boy and I
October 16th, 2012 | The whole Art thing | Grace | 5 CommentsSo I set out to illustrate a children’s book. And the little altar boy and I, we went through a lot together.
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Posts from the ‘The whole Art thing’ Category
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Flubbed art restoration is one church’s ticket to fame
September 20th, 2012 | Culture gone mad, Pop goes the culture, The whole Art thing | Grace | 2 CommentsCall it the last triumph of postmodern Art. But an utterly ruined work of religious art has a throng of people wanting to see it.
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Meet the Senator
May 31st, 2012 | Adventures with cat, Life, The whole Art thing | Grace | No CommentsWell, we have a new yowl-y thing in our house, and he’s making enough of a fuss that I won’t get to say too much about him right now. But we met him at a cat adoption event and there was so much talk amongst the staff that he was the “it” cat — good [...]
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Drawing little altar boys
May 7th, 2012 | Books, Just a slice of heaven, The whole Art thing | Grace | 3 CommentsSorry I haven’t been doing much here lately. I’ve been unusually busy for once, putting in long hours that didn’t allow for much blogging. Any time in the past few weeks that Greg has called and asked what I’m doing, I’ve answered “What else? Drawing altar boys.” That sounds pretty weird, and it’s even weirder [...]
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A brief history of an Orthodox re-creator
October 28th, 2011 | Just a slice of heaven, The whole Art thing | Grace | No CommentsHere’s the essay I did for Melinda’s series of Orthodox artists and writers, My mother tells me that one of the real benefits that I offered to a weary parent (I was the last of four children) was that if you put me in a room with a pencil and paper, I could amuse myself [...]
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A quick virtual jaunt to see Great Art
February 26th, 2011 | The whole Art thing | Grace | 3 CommentsI happened onto Google’s virtual art museum site by accident a week ago. Those clever people have digitized hundreds of works of art from 17 museums around the world, and you can see them in roughly the same way that you see things via Google Maps. That gives you incredible control (as you’d imagine) but [...]
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A Ukrainian memoir in sand
September 25th, 2009 | The whole Art thing | Grace | 10 CommentsThis has to be seen to be believed. I didn’t even know that there was a show called “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” And I didn’t know there was such a thing as sand animation. I also didn’t know much about the German invasion of the Ukraine in WWII. But here, an artist portrays the invasion with [...]
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Pointillist Clementine
August 9th, 2009 | Adventures with dog, Just a slice of heaven, The whole Art thing | Grace | 3 CommentsWe’ve had a deliciously mild summer so far, but August seems intent on making up for lost time. So when I take Clementine for the late afternoon walk, I’m all for being focused and brief with our attentions to all the familiar landmarks. But what can you do with a scent hound? Clementine caught scent [...]
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Culture and …
October 4th, 2008 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Pop goes the culture, The whole Art thing | Grace | No CommentsA lot of little blogworthy musings on my second-favorite topic have been bouncing around my head. Given that Fr. Alexander observed “Everything in and of our culture is about the Kingdom of God, either for or against,” it may just be that these thoughts dovetail with thoughts about my most favorite topic.
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Ruskin on Art and Life
October 28th, 2007 | The whole Art thing | Grace | 1 CommentFinishing up our quick cruise with a stay in a really great hotel, I picked up a book in the room called “On Art and Life” by John Ruskin. I’m not sure anyone was really supposed to read it — it had the look of something that was placed there to lend an artsy atmosphere [...]
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