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Thursday, May 08, 2003  8:32 PMSophie's Bird Mobile 
I've been painting a mobile for Sophie. We didn't see any we liked in the store, so I've decided to make one! I drew with her next to me on the floor, painted madly late into the night while she was asleep, and worked at 5am while Paul was feeding her. I have claimed the early-morning feeding time as my Art time; I know there will be at least 40 uninterupted minutes for me to do my thing.
I've been really having a great time with this: there are four birds, each a different color and with different pictures on its wings. One's blue and purple with the sky on its wings; the others are green with leaves, orange and yellow with the sun, and red with a rainbow. I have two grey twigs ready to go for the supports... I wanted everything to be as natural as possible. I loved making the colors deep and rich, I loved splashing color after color and soaking the paper, I loved cutting out the wild shapes and seeing the clean, crisp edges. Sophie and I have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar a lot and I think I am going to do some artwork with that technique — cutouts arranged from wildly painted paper to make a whole new painting. I have always loved Eric Carle and Leo Lionni and I think that will be the next direction I try. french toast girl 
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easy reader,  a little bit o' toast: I just read the most amazing book: Flying Colors. ... I'm writing this from the office today. This is my... Can you identify the following: 1. I'm not the k... Sophie gets a shot. Three of them. Sophie went fo... Love, exciting and new.... What a weekend! Saturd... This morning found me and Sophie eating breakfast ... Note to self: You have enough. You do enough. ... Watch me draw you a picture! Check this out... th... Sophia Italiana Sophie, Snowflake, and I sashayed... Sophie goes chalking This was simply a gorgeous w... good ones:
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