![]() I received this postcard from Limner Cade recently and somehow this image made me travel back in time to my college days. I identified both its seriousness and monochromatic scheme with the melancholia that marked my life in those days. I loved black and white photos back then and I still do. In college, though, I did a great deal of drawing and even after college when I took up an interest in drawing portraits I preferred working from black and white pictures because they gave an excellent standard against which to compare my work. I do not draw anymore as children derailed a few of my hobbies and now creativity works its way out in other directions like reacquainting myself with calligraphy; also something I liked way back when. (I was going to post a picture I had drawn of my daughter but it's gone AWOL. I put it in a safe place a couple weeks ago when I cleaned out a cupboard and now I may never see it again. *sigh* So, friends, I give you half a post. Today I found the perfect paper for making envelopes and tomorrow I'll sit down to make some. I'll post pictures soon!)
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Mrs. Duffy. You have no idea how much it means to hear how much you like the photograph. I departed with it reluctantly. Sorry, but it's true. I used to stare at it, trying to decipher all the things that made her face almost perfect. Do you like her eyes? Her mouth is something else. There is nothing superfluous about this face.
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10/29/2011 02:53:05 pm
Her face is as symmetrical as a person's can be. Sometimes her eyes look as though her mind is weighted by life altering decisions that must be made and other times she seems to be reading my mind. I've still not found the picture of my daughter and have decided to let it show up when I'm looking for something else. If it doesn't, I'll either draw another one or commission my son to make a replacement. He's the real artist in the family. I wouldn't have a matching set of my three kids then :o( In our last move the frame broke and never got replaced. I'll have to remove's my sons' portraits from their frames and post them. Unfortunately they're discolored. Perhaps I should call them "antiqued."
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