Wanda Gag

wrote and illustrated the first book I knew (and could recite by heart before age 2).

Wanda Gag (1893-1946) illustrated the children’s book Millions of Cats (1928), and pioneered the double-page book spread, using both pages for one illustration that furthered the story. In Millions Of Cats there is use of bright colour, but a lot of her work is high-contrast black-and-white.

http://www.slaphappylarry.com/picturebook-study-hansel-and-gretel-by-neil-gaiman-and-lorenzo-mattotti/

Tend

"Middle English (in the sense ‘move or be inclined to move in a certain direction’): from Old French tendre ‘stretch, tend,’ from Latin tendere .""care for or look after; give one's attention to."

2007, showing an upset 5 year old Jane, how to incorporate a spill / drop of paint into the picture.  Remember telling her there are no mistakes... it's just part of the story.

Inch by inch, row by row, I'm gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe, and a piece of fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below 'til the rain comes tumbling down

Pullin' weeds and pickin' stones, we are made of dreams and bones
I feel the need to grow my own 'cause the time is close at hand
Grain for grain, sun and rain, I'll find my way in nature's chain
I tune my body and my brain to the music of the land

Inch by inch, row by row, I'm gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below 'til the rain comes tumbling down

So plant your rows straight and long, temper them with prayer and song
Mother earth can keep you strong if you give her love and care
Now an old crow watching hungrily from his perch in yonder tree
In my garden I'm as free as that feathered thief up there

Inch by inch, row by row, I'm gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below 'til the rain comes tumbling

Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below 'til the rain comes tumbling down
partial to the Peter, Paul, and Mary version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf01KuTdjHs

touch

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/100-year-old-footage-of-legendary-artists-monet-renoir-rodin-and-degas-working-and-walking-near-their-studios/

Anchor

 my favorite surprise experimentation results with Pipenberg Patina amidst 2015 vandalism glass... 

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

-Goethe

Approach. Near. (Near)

Press, relief, tentative, step with a solid heal and a slipping toe towards some glimmered idea.

https://instagram.com/word_and_image/

out of sequence

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/tromp-loeil-ceramics-that-imitate-the-natural-appearance-of-decaying-wood/

@ aaron

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/29132728814152839/

Family Crest