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Every month, Becky at The Life of B announces a new Squares Challenge. The challenge for April is BRIGHT.
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April 21 BRIGHT SQUARES: Kahlo and Calder at the de Young Museum
April 21, 2021 at 2:21 am (Artists and Writers, Links, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, museum, San Francisco
Posting Early Again! April 20 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 20, 2021 at 4:07 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, Mondays, museums, Sacramento, spring
Tomorrow morning, early, self is headed to the de Young to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Finally, finally.
Because she’ll probably be out the whole day, she’s posting tomorrow’s Bright Square early. Thank you to Becky at The Life of B for hosting this challenge!
More pictures from the Crocker Museum in Sacramento! The huge painting is Landscape with an Archer, by David Ligare (American, born 1945)
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April 18 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 18, 2021 at 9:27 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Movies, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: museums, art, exhibits, adaptations, Oscars, lunch, Sacramento
For today’s BRIGHT SQUARES Challenge, self took pictures at the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento! Which is just as fabulous as she remembered it being, all those years ago (Then, she was lucky enough to catch a Norman Rockwell retrospective)
(Left to Right):
- Dale Chihuly (almost identical to the one that hangs in the lobby of London’s V & A)
- Portrait of the playwright, screenwriter and diarist Christopher Isherwood, by Don Bachardy, American (born 1934). Isherwood wrote the 1964 novel A Simple Man; the movie adaptation won Colin Firth an Oscar.
- Pacific Ocean, a painting by Jennifer Bartlett, American (born 1941)
What a great museum. Self is so happy she returned to Sacramento for this brief visit. If only the café had been open, she’d happily have lingered the whole day.
For lunch, she stopped at this small pop-up on 16th. The metal chairs had been baking in the sun, which she did not think mattered until she actually sat down. A lady who was sitting at the same table smirked and said, “That’s why I avoided sitting on those.” I took a chair that was sitting in the shade, a bit closer to the lady, and she immediately said, “I’ve had my two shots, don’t worry.”
The lady also told self that there was a “Chinse supermarket” not half a block from where we were sitting, and self got very excited at the thought of loading up on goodies for back home.
In addition to tacos, the pop-up also sold, somewhat improbably, mac’n cheese, and since it’s been forever since she’s had mac’n cheese, she decided to try it. It was good!
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April 16 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 16, 2021 at 7:31 pm (Links, Artists and Writers, Places, Recommended, Surprises, Weather, postaday, destinations, plans)
Tags: San Francisco, happiness, museums, art, exhibits, Golden Gate Park
This is today’s BRIGHT SQUARE. Thanks to Becky at The Life of B for the challenge!
A few days ago, self met her friend Caroline at the de Young in Golden Gate Park. What a BRIGHT BRIGHT DAY. Museums are open again!
Lots of squares in the lines of the building, and on the pavement. The ferris wheel is a new thing. Wasn’t here last year! She likes it.
So HAPPYYYYYY!
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April 14 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 15, 2021 at 6:00 am (Artists and Writers, Links, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, Irish artists
Self hasn’t skipped a day yet in the April Bright Squares Challenge.
The host of this challenge is The life of B.
Today, self is honored to share the artwork of Dublin-based Jacinta O’Reilly, whose work is so fabulously vivid. These pictures are from Jacinta’s exhibit at Naas Library in Kildare, Ireland, October 2019.
April 10 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 11, 2021 at 12:57 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: art, blogs, Gardens, inspiration, Redwood City, Saturday, spring
For today’s BRIGHT SQUARES (See more about this photo challenge, hosted by Becky on her blog, The Life of B), self went to her local library and took pictures of the murals painted on the kiosk next to the main entrance (where there are/were vending machines). They’re giving out lettuce and basil seeds — you pick!. There’s a reflection of me on the glass, taking pictures, LOL!
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April 6 BRIGHT SQUARES
April 6, 2021 at 5:23 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: art, discoveries, Menlo Park, mysteries, Stanford
Every day this April, a BRIGHT SQUARE.
Learn more about the challenge here.
Self took the pictures below in Afterwards, a vintage clothing and furniture store in Menlo Park. She was on her way to the Rodin Sculpture Garden at Stanford, but her attention was caught by the big globe hanging in the window. So she decided to investigate.
The store is huge! And full of one-of-a-kind pieces. So much more fun than shopping in a department store.
Self and the woman there had a nice conversation about Louise Penny.
Squares in Picture # 1: the McDonald’s awning? The shape of the building?
Squares in Picture # 2: The chair back is sort of — squar-ish?
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Day 2, BRIGHT SQUARES: April Photo Challenge
April 2, 2021 at 7:21 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Links, postaday, Recommended, Sayings)
Tags: art, Fridays, Irish artists
Self will try to post a bright square (or two) a day through April. Thank you, The Life of B, for hosting this very interesting photo challenge!
Square # 1: Bruce Lee Postcard in son’s room
Square # 2: Variations on a Field, by Irish print artist Pam de Brie
April Squares Challenge
April 1, 2021 at 7:19 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, England, Himachal Pradesh, India, Irish artists, memories, Oxford
Here is another Photo Challenge I just found out about: The Squares Challenge, hosted by The Life of B.
The theme for the Squares Challenge this month is BRIGHT.
Self-explanatory, right?
Here are some of self’s bright squares:
- the skylight of the apartment she rented for several weeks in Oxford, UK (November 2019)
- a greeting card from Dublin-based visual artist Jacinta O’Reilly
- a book from the Sherabling Monastery in Himachal Pradesh, India, which she visited in January 2012
Love this challenge!
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Lens-Artists Challenge #141: GEOMETRY
March 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, Links, plans, postaday)
Tags: art, artists residency, California, Garden, Ireland, lens-artists photo challenge, memories, Saturdays, Spain
Thank you, P. A. Moed, for this very interesting challenge, and for the great quote from Johannes Kepler:
- Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
The world is full of shapes. Circles, squares, ovals, triangles, and even some of your favorites from geometry class like parallelograms. For this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, we are focusing on geometry—shapes that are visually interesting and form a pattern or rhythm.
Hanging on the back wall in the first picture is a print by Eizo Sakata, a gift. Self met him at the Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojåcar, Spain, over 20 years ago!
The figs are from self’s backyard. She took the picture last year (Right now, the fig trees are just beginning to leaf.) Self can hardly wait until she can start picking the ripe figs!
The last image are three prints, part of a series called Variations on a Field, by Irish artist Pam de Brie. When self purchased them, years ago, she had nowhere to hang them. So she asked Pam to hang on to them; when she was ready, she would let her know. That time came three years ago. Four prints arrived by US mail! The last print, self will put in its own frame. It’s the brightest of the four prints.
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