Drawing From life

I didnt imagine
that my model
of a Peregrine Falcon
whom I thought to be a
Hawk
would not stay still

Quickly I learnt
that Drawing from Life
involves drawing not
one portrait
but many portraits
each filled as the
bird moves to
offer a different profile

Most of the body
remains the same
you get that part
right quick

when a little ruffled
or bored
the wings might span out

But the head
moves
the left eye soon
becomes the right

The neck line
moves like
percentile graphs

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During this attempt, looking closely at the eyes, I thought of how Jester looked like a baby. He was imprinted by a human.

Fitness goals

I wanted to be light enough to ride a bike without sitting on it.
I wanted to pole vault.

To be able to do a single leg Lateral jump

10 min of  Jump rope

From Bud to Boss

How kids follow rules?

When they see other kids follow them.
library 20 min limit for the computer games.

A-Z of Embroidery Stitches

Embroidery Floss with Organizer Storage Box - BASEIN 100％Cotton Friendship Bracelets Floss String Embroidery Thread 69 Pcs (50 Colors)

Shisha Stitch

I didnt know that you could use ribbons for all the lovely rose stitches.
We used to make the concertina rose with palm leaves at a convent school.
Now I remember the blanket stitch we learnt in SUPW class but didnt recognise it even though I saw it on the blankets.

Leadership Fundamentals by Britt andreatta

Emotional Intelligence containing self-awareness and awareness of others emotions (empathy)

Boxes

Boxes

A Man is

A Man is

Buildings to see

Inside the worlds largest airplane factory

some airplane factories are so large that clouds once formed inside them
When you learn that
a phenomenon is not unique
that it follows like a twin
that on the front
behooves the back
that it is part of a system
and is not by itself


Vehicle assembly building

fiction:
Homeless

I am at the top in between two rocks. Many thousand feet below are sparse number of people. Soon its many people on horses fighting. In no time, a small pool is filled with them. One of them looks that there are people up here. It looks like a normal busy street. There were families hanging their clothes on ropes at unreachable heights on the multi-storeys where they use a stick to manipulate the rope before hanging clothes on it. It was time to leave. We left with what we had In emergency situation, I took somebody's sandals which I thought might be big for me, but were not. We all left. Earlier , in the neighbourhood my friend K was giving keynote lectures for her company. She had long hair. My dad realised he had about 4 bags of fruits. The last one was green grapes. and said that he had about 12K Rs.  Before leaving, we had lost about half the people. some were burning in the plaster mummies of Mt Vesuvius shape and others only heads on the floor. We dont know who did it. When we are standing in a building, with many arches, front exposed, a jeep comes by 3 to 4 times. we try to stand in such a way that the cuboid columns will give us protection from fire. Then a men are two come out of it and impress upon us how the buildings around are huge newspaper ones and that we should leave.

6.30.15 dream. last night I saw the poem in the de Mezzo Il mare about the plaster mummies of Mt Vesuvius.

Enlarged to Show Texture

When we miss somebody

how does the scene
look
to an outsider

an unfinished painting
with white silhouette
of the missing person

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From an unfinished painting

Painting Successful Watercolours from Photographs

Watercolours from photographs

Poetry Prompts:

1. Removing or Adding elements from photo to painting (Isnt that what memory does?)

2. Imagining a photo in a different season.

3. Work outwards from focal point

Anything protected

Atoll Hurricane

is for Hurricane
to be safe
from it

Hurricane action
resembles the
cross section
of a human body
with the storm
rotating up the spine
and building winds
around the border
of the body

Kosta Boda