My brain skitters around like drops of water on a hot griddle when I’m experimenting in the studio. Try this… Okay, that worked. Nope. Modify… Hmmm. What if I try that? … Oooops… Now what? …Oh, maybe that… Chug-a-chug-a-chug-a cool down and clean up… Write some of this stuff down before I forget it… NoContinue reading “Brain Skitters”
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Happy Stampers
Recently, I was asked by a nearby art gallery* to teach a printmaking workshop, since my BFA major is printmaking. Mostly folks don’t really know what printmaking is. I didn’t until I took my first class. In a nutshell, printmaking is making a “plate” that can be used many times to print an image overContinue reading “Happy Stampers”
Letter to my unborn grandchild
Dear Baby, Well, it’s April now. Your birth month. You’re nearly ready to make your grand entrance. So, sweet grandchild, let me tell you what will happen when you get here. Prepare to be snuggled and cuddled and cooed to, and love, love, loved. I gotta tell you, you are most welcome. You will haveContinue reading “Letter to my unborn grandchild”
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010
I slept in an extra hour this morning. It’s a holiday. I got up to coffee that was automatically brewed minutes before I woke. I wrapped a cozy comforter around me and wrote this note on a fresh page of my notebook with my favourite pen, on my handy dandy lap desk. Later this morningContinue reading “Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010”
Frog Day Afternoon
My darling husband, Pat, and I moved back to my family home in the tiny village of Creelman 2 years ago. In the midst of a chaotic and emotional move I amalgamated 3 art studios. In the intervening 2 years we’ve gotten the main house re-painted, re-curtained and re-floored, and generally made it ours. ThenContinue reading “Frog Day Afternoon”
Failure
So, Thursday was a write off. Or was it? As usual, I multi-task to the extreme. A trait that was valued in my career as a lab-tech, but frowned on by organization gurus. Guess what I’m not. I jump from task to task. Scanning photo albums for a photo book, hyper varnishing a set ofContinue reading “Failure”
Work and Play
I’ve become impatient to get started my Seriously Whimsical project. What I get while I wait though, is the fun of to plotting and scheming and planning!
Everything I see and think becomes fodder for my whimsical gristmill. Excessive rain caused shelf mushrooms to sprout all over the tree stump in my son’s back yard. Cool!!
I pull out my travel sketchbook and draw the stump with mushrooms for future reference while my grandchildren jump around me. “You’re a good drawer, Grandma!” “Thanks Georgie, you’re a good climber”
“Do you want to play Play-Doh, Grandma?” “Do I?!” Ya!
Seriously Whimsical or Whimsically Serious
I’m excited. My “Phenomenal Reality” project has grown up and moved out of the house. It’s living it’s own life; seeing new people and places. It doesn’t really need me any more. But that’s not why I’m excited. I have a new baby, and I can’t wait to raise it. Shhhhh. This is secret squirrelContinue reading “Seriously Whimsical or Whimsically Serious”
About Sharing and Goals
Last Fall my life changed! Again! It shouldn’t have, but it did. I took a class* that opened a door to a world of possibilities. They were always there, but I hadn’t even noticed the room I was in had doors. Voilà! The world is suddenly more than the little box I’d always imagined itContinue reading “About Sharing and Goals”
Welcome
I’m Diana Hume, this is my exploration, through art, of the fascinating planet we live on. You are most welcome to come along on my journey. I’m transitioning between this website’s focus on Lushes with Brushes and a focus on Diana Hume Fine Art. Please bear with me while I make the change.
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