Hand Thrown Tea Pot With Twining Vines and Leaves

My daughter Nissa makes all sorts of items out of clay. She prefers the wheel to slab work and this tea pot is only 5.5 inches high.

Handmade Jewelry With Semi Precious Stones

Alethea makes jewelry from semi precious stones and sells them on Etsy.

Wisteria Stained Glass Lamp and Geese in Tulips Window

These are two of my husband's many stained glass pieces.

The stained glass geese window is our bathroom window treatment. I don't care for drapes and this gives us privacy and spares the neighbors from getting to know us too well.

The stained glass wisteria lamp was Bryce's most ambitious project; every piece of glass was wrapped with copper foil and soldered. Many of the glass pieces are smaller than a pinky finger nail; they were all cut and fit to make this lovely lamp.

Continuous Line Drawing of a Philodendron

I did this drawing with a black gel pen and the goal was to do the entire drawing without breaking the pen line. I would put a post-it on the paper to remind me where I left off and the only way to move backwards was to trace over the existing line (hence the heavier line weight in areas). This is a fun little exercise that would be interesting for figure drawing since you really need to concentrate on composition and line.

Found Alphabet Letter Made From 2 Paintings

I used two different textured paintings to make a K. You can use almost any medium to make an alphabet—photos of buildings, tree branches, found objects, or even illustration.

The paintings are from a series of 9 that are grouped in the dining room. I took 6" square canvases and gessoed different objects to them and then painted everything black. The red is the cover of an Ikea storage box.

Typography Trivia

What is the small dot over a lower case i or j called? It's a tittle.

If trivia makes you go If trivia makes you go If trivia makes you go If trivia makes you go $&@#!, those symbols are called a grawlixes.

Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, gave profanity a new name in his book The Lexicon of Comicana.

Agitrons are wiggly lines indicating that something is shaking
Briffits are clouds of dust indicating that a character left in a rush.
Emanata are straight lines rising from around a character's head indicating surprise
Plewds are drops of sweat indicating that a character is hot or stressed
Squeans are asterisks with an empty center indicating drunkenness or dizziness
Solrads are radiating lines drawn from something luminous like a light bulb or the sun.
Waftaroms are wavy lines rising from something indicating a strong smell or heat.