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24 Jul 2006 - 18:51
I'd been out of touch with my friend Debbie for awhile (I think people call her "Deb" now). When we emailed this week, I learned that she's posted some of her drawings on a website. They're incredible. She also said she has no idea how to rename her website....so if anyone out there knows how to deal with Mac sites, let me know. I'm pretty sure I put one together a year ago, and it was bizarrely non-user friendly. I have no idea where it is now. Debbie's drawings are causing me to ask myself why I'm learning math here in middle age, instead of learning to draw and paint, something I've always wanted to do. My neighbor, the statistician, has always wanted to learn to paint, and she's doing it. For the past couple of months she's been working her way through Betty Edwards' book on color. Last week she picked colors for the upstairs bedrooms and now her second floor looks like something out of Martha Stewart (and I say that as praise, setting aside MS's wackadoo qualities. There's nothing wackadoo about her color sense. I have yet to see a Martha Stewart photo spread where the colors weren't perfect.) My neighbor learned how to choose colors & put them together the same way I'm learning how to divide a polynomial by a monomial, by choosing books written by the John Saxon of drawing and teaching herself. I would like to have the colors in my house look like a professional picked them out Instead I'm sitting in a cluttered house with dull white paint and too many books. (My neighbor has too many books, too, but she's making it work.) Maybe one day. In the meantime, at least my door is red.
(this is a drawing of Debbie's son)
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Drawing is on my List of Things to Learn. Along with maths (which I'm actually working on) And Bible Studies (which I'm actually working on) And Latin (which I have books for) And cooking (which I'm hopeless at) And chess And military history and strategy (so I can take over the world :) ) And poetry And dress-making Good thing I'm only 22, and don't have any kids yet. Although I suspect that I'm adding to the list far faster than I can learn them. -- SamanthaRawson - 24 Jul 2006
Well, I'll stop lurking and leave a comment. Deb's pictures are just wonderful ...just so lovely and subtle. I love them. I love the viewpoint she choice for her horses on her web site. She needs to have her email there - so she can get her compliments directly. Anyway, maybe the thing is not necessarily that we get to all the things on our lists of things to learn - but that we have a list to begin with. --Neighbor with Martha Stewart Colors -- LauraRead - 24 Jul 2006
Hi, Laura! OK, I feel better now. You may be right. I take it for granted that everyone has a list, but I'm not sure that's true. I was talking to another friend a couple of days ago, who's our age, and she said she doesn't feel like doing anything. She used to be very ambitious, and her ambition has been completely gone for a few years now, it seems like. It's not just ambition, either; she's not intensley drawn to hobbies or avocations, either. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
Wow, Samantha - you're WAY ahead of me. Bible studies is also on my list, and I've done a pathetic job of doing anything in that realm. Chess & military history & strategy aren't on my list, thank god; neither is poetry (though it's been lurking around the edges I'm sorry to say). Dressmaking is SOOO on my list. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
I've learned to cook well enough that I'm satisfied. The funny thing is, women seem to run out of steam on cooking at some point. I don't know why exactly. I wasn't drawn to cooking as a child or young adult, but then I got interested when Jimmy was little....and I've kind of trailed off. At my "peak" I was a pretty good bread baker. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
Deborah Gieringer drawings
I'd been out of touch with my friend Debbie for awhile (I think people call her "Deb" now). When we emailed this week, I learned that she's posted some of her drawings on a website. They're incredible. She also said she has no idea how to rename her website....so if anyone out there knows how to deal with Mac sites, let me know. I'm pretty sure I put one together a year ago, and it was bizarrely non-user friendly. I have no idea where it is now. Debbie's drawings are causing me to ask myself why I'm learning math here in middle age, instead of learning to draw and paint, something I've always wanted to do. My neighbor, the statistician, has always wanted to learn to paint, and she's doing it. For the past couple of months she's been working her way through Betty Edwards' book on color. Last week she picked colors for the upstairs bedrooms and now her second floor looks like something out of Martha Stewart (and I say that as praise, setting aside MS's wackadoo qualities. There's nothing wackadoo about her color sense. I have yet to see a Martha Stewart photo spread where the colors weren't perfect.) My neighbor learned how to choose colors & put them together the same way I'm learning how to divide a polynomial by a monomial, by choosing books written by the John Saxon of drawing and teaching herself. I would like to have the colors in my house look like a professional picked them out Instead I'm sitting in a cluttered house with dull white paint and too many books. (My neighbor has too many books, too, but she's making it work.) Maybe one day. In the meantime, at least my door is red.
(this is a drawing of Debbie's son)
-- CatherineJohnson - 24 Jul 2006 Back to main page.
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Drawing is on my List of Things to Learn. Along with maths (which I'm actually working on) And Bible Studies (which I'm actually working on) And Latin (which I have books for) And cooking (which I'm hopeless at) And chess And military history and strategy (so I can take over the world :) ) And poetry And dress-making Good thing I'm only 22, and don't have any kids yet. Although I suspect that I'm adding to the list far faster than I can learn them. -- SamanthaRawson - 24 Jul 2006
Well, I'll stop lurking and leave a comment. Deb's pictures are just wonderful ...just so lovely and subtle. I love them. I love the viewpoint she choice for her horses on her web site. She needs to have her email there - so she can get her compliments directly. Anyway, maybe the thing is not necessarily that we get to all the things on our lists of things to learn - but that we have a list to begin with. --Neighbor with Martha Stewart Colors -- LauraRead - 24 Jul 2006
Hi, Laura! OK, I feel better now. You may be right. I take it for granted that everyone has a list, but I'm not sure that's true. I was talking to another friend a couple of days ago, who's our age, and she said she doesn't feel like doing anything. She used to be very ambitious, and her ambition has been completely gone for a few years now, it seems like. It's not just ambition, either; she's not intensley drawn to hobbies or avocations, either. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
Wow, Samantha - you're WAY ahead of me. Bible studies is also on my list, and I've done a pathetic job of doing anything in that realm. Chess & military history & strategy aren't on my list, thank god; neither is poetry (though it's been lurking around the edges I'm sorry to say). Dressmaking is SOOO on my list. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
I've learned to cook well enough that I'm satisfied. The funny thing is, women seem to run out of steam on cooking at some point. I don't know why exactly. I wasn't drawn to cooking as a child or young adult, but then I got interested when Jimmy was little....and I've kind of trailed off. At my "peak" I was a pretty good bread baker. -- CatherineJohnson - 26 Jul 2006
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