This topic was inspired in part by Brians cute pic of his youngest picking up the brush.
I started another thread because I am very proud father & wanted to praise my daughter for an acomplishment that I never achieved.
I will be traveling to Austin next month for Tiva's college graduation! Tiva will recieve a degree in visual communication. She has been specializing in photography, often with digital manipulation, but she also enjoys painting & seems to have creativity in her blood.
Here again is the link to a website she created for one of her classes. It is called RoseWorks in honor of her middle name.
The site contains many images of her painting, photography, & digital images.
Here is a look at the painting Linda & I recieved as a gift this summer.
I'm sure other letterheads have the creative blood surfacing in many beautiful ways through your children both young & old.
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Doug, This Apple may have fallen from the tree... But it was a GOOD APPLE...... I took a look at her web site....Fantastic work..
She should go far in this chosen field....
I can see why you are justafiably PROUD.. as well you should be...
Shep'
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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Doug -I already expressed in the other post how magnificent and promising Tiva's work is - but you asked us to "share", so here is one of mine.
Bet some of you think my son Mark might simply be a nerdy Computer Geek - far from it. He graduated the NC School of the Arts' Visual Arts/Design and Production Program. His Photography and darkroom have been very important to him. The picture here was created with a camera/slide projector/a sheet and a girl. He won the Kodak Award of Excellence for it.
Don't tell him I posted this. Or you may not see me in the EstiMate booth at sign shows.....I might get sooooo fired.
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Hey Troy, no luck on the scanner yet? I'd post it for you if that helped, but I guess it's not digital yet without your scanner working.
Deb, did you send me pics? nothing arrived yet, just checking.
All you other letterhead parents, even if it's not artistic, what are your kids doing to make you proud? There's got to be plenty to be said to that! (If anyones up for it.)
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Speaking of the Apple not falling far from the tree..........Here is a link as to what my Daughter is up to......... http://www.townegalleryart.com/tour2.htm
This is my Daughter Kathy, with a Framed Print of one of my Paintings.
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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Forgot to mention that the cute little blonde girl's name is Kialy. Hope she can be as half as talented as some of the other youngins' posted here.
Shep, I enjoyed the little piece of Appalacia(sp?)in the painting. Reminds me of simpler times. "Life is meant be enjoyed, not endured." (Anthony J. D'Angelo)
-------------------- Alan Ackerson LetterWorks Design and Graphics alan@ack2.com Posts: 776 | From: Oak Ridge, NJ | Registered: Aug 2002
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Levi Collins was from Cherry Bottom, in Bear Creek Tn near Oak Ridge...
He was a Musician, Miller, Miner and a Moonshiner, and his Banjo is Featured in the "Museum of Appallachia" near his homeplace.
(He was playing "Amazing Grace" in this Study)
Shep'
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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This picture is from July 2000, when we were living in LA. My dad used to fly out and spend two weeks with us every summer. Here he is teaching my daughter (in the pink bathing suit) and her friend the finer points of hand-lettering. In case anyone is wondering, the talent has skipped a generation. I have no artistic talent when it comes to paint and brush...my daughter on the other hand seems to love it and surprises me all the time with the stuff she can do. She even comes to me sometimes and asks if she can look at Pop-Pop's brushes. Here's a more recent picture of her...
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Great pics Kimberly, Shep & Alan! So Kimberly, maybe you can claim no talent, but you must have a shot of Al trying to teach you to paint.
In fact all us letterheads probably have a good pic of our own early artistic achievments shot by our parents. Any contributions like that to this scrapbook thread?
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Doug, Here is an example of my "talent"...it is a "gift box" made of herbed foccacia with Dungeness Crab and micro greens. It's from a Christmas party I catered a while back.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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thanks to Doug Allen for linking these for me: my nephew Josh's work, including a self portrait, majoring in photography first and second year work, plus some pics from Italy, these pics don't do the originals justice, but hope to inspire him and show him our website. and.. my little granddaughters, ages 5, 3, and 2, love to draw and color and paint constantly! http://www.islandsign.com/josh.jpg web pagehttp://www.islandsign.com/debpics2 [URL=http://www.islandsign.com/debpics.jpg] http://islandsign.com/debpics3.jpg
[ January 11, 2003, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: Deb Fowler ]
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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Hey Deb, those links I sent are for you to paste in the box that comes up when you click on the button marked "images" right below where you type a message when you post on this board. You can go to edit your post & you will see the image button. The reason 2 of your links are not workin is you didn't copy & paste what I sent you. You re-typed & accidently added a letter. My CasMate days have got me in the old W95 habit of restricting myself to 8 character file names, so I dropped the s in debspics when I made debpics2.jpg & debpics3.jpg
Also, Myra, I noticed you mention private school when talking about the expense of raising kids. I also was in a hand to mouth existance well below the poverty level during the years I raised my daughter as a single dad, but I paid the big bucks for private school as well. One reason was the quality of public school was very poor in Hawaii, the other reason was the idealogy (sp.) or Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf scooling system seemed like it sat well with my own beliefs. They focused on the arts much more then the academics in the early education years. The part of the theory that i remember was that the 3 r's were subtly introduced through funner subjects so they were slowly gaining an understanding of those academic disciplines through the actual real life relevance of using those skills.
I guess I might need to give some credit to the waldorf school for some of Tiva's artistic acomplishments. What type of private school were you supporting?
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Doug: I’m well familiar with the Waldorf School, one of my brothers works for them today in Germany. It is a wonderful concept of subtle solid teaching with worldwide acceptance.
Kids are different, for mine I needed the strongest and most varied curriculum possible. He was a Sesame Street junkie who alerted me to being a “problem child” when he stood in his crib at 19 months, pointed to the window’s slats and said: "Look 6 squares", I did and it was. I put him into Montessori preschool at 3, where he for a while hid from the teachers that he could already read, in order to be like the other kids. So when it came to 1st grade he needed the best teaching I could find, and that was an independent very small private school that prided itself on imparting information with discipline. I’m so glad I did, and I think he is too.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
signslimited@triad.rr.com Posts: 1244 | From: Winston-Salem, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Thank you Doug. I tried re-entering the link with only the link typed in and they worked, don't know why those two wouldn't take. (I am going to have fun having my nephew show me some tricks.) He know works at a photo restoration company here, doing fabulous work, and getting paid for it too! He is working on a movie for this summer, just finishing "Frankenstein" in October where he made the sets and took care of all the lighting. This summer he will take 3 months to create a fifteen min. movie.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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I don't know why they aren't showing up. Right clicking the red X gave me the file names. I went to your site and found the same images. Maybe these links will work
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Gee, we can paint, but posting has to be an art in itself, not to be taken for granted! lol. These are some beautiful posts, truly a treat for me today, thanks. Doug had taken the time to help me post and now he and others have shown me where to post my own from now on without having a website. I learned a lot.
(just scroll up a few posts) now it will link to some of the first photos that my nephew Josh took, not all of them being there. He works with shadows and such, and I have more really nifty ones - now that I finally got a scanner, yes, never had a working one till now, and I am like a kid in a candyshop)!
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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Thanx Barb for fixing my post, I thought I did it by the book but still screwed it up hehehe. Thanx also Doug, I guess I just Suck at this computer stuff
Cheers!
Rod
-------------------- Rod from, EAST COAST AIRBRUSHING "Airbrush Art & Graphics" Nambour; Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Australia E.mail: rod@rodticklesigns.com Web: www.rodticklesigns.com Posts: 635 | From: Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Queensland | Registered: Dec 1998
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