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2026 Fall Flowers
The Autumn Equinox has come and gone, but it did not leave any cool temperatures in its wake. I am glad we are no longer experiencing the 100-plus Fahrenheit weather of the summer, so the 90 F days do feel like a cool wave. I am not yet ready to break out my sweaters or…
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Two Types of Color Wheels
Two lessons using the color wheel: the first is to mix the colors around the wheel. The students who’ve done this exercise before get to mix the same colors, but create an image from their own imagination.
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Music of the Spheres
One of my favorite hymns growing up in the church was “This Is My Father’s World,” by Maltbie D. Babcock, a Presbyterian minister. Written in 1901, to the tune Terra Beata, or Blessed Earth, the song was originally a traditional English folk tune, but composer Franklin L. Sheppard arranged a variation specifically for this text.…
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Spring Flowers
How many colors exist in creation? Many more than we can buy in a tube at the art supply store and even more than the number of paint chips at our local building supply store. Recently I gave my adult art class an assignment to use their primary colors and white only to mix new…
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