5 Steps to learning AutoCAD

I remember when I was starting AutoCAD, what I only knew is how to draw a line. But how did I learn? ... you want it all to come out. Lets say, I want to draw a house, and I want my house colored green with a clear 360 degree view of the outside. Without a defined vision you can draw a house, yes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 10:04:23

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Story of mixed emotions…

I know the title can refer to a lot of topics… no confessions here … no “guess how i feel” games… This post is actually about a Poet; Rives ... when we were kids we used to make a story from a colleciton of tiny drawings? We used to draw a house and girl and a car and say “once upon a time there was a girl who lived in a big house” … Well…Rives [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:28:24

Some Sewing

Sophie and I spent Saturday at my mom’s house sewing. My mom, four of my sisters and two of my nieces were there. I made this for Sophie ... not very clear. And it would be nice to have actual photos of the steps, not just drawings ... their house. My husband calls it the cultural hall (I think some of you will get it).Here’s Sophie sitting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:45:45

Help Me Strip My Foreclosure

Remove Yourself—Candiria Touch what you can’t have While i have what you can’t touch for now My friend, ... and what is a fixture of real estate. In architectural design, it is possible to create construction drawings ... stripped the house before they left. I mention all this because a reader sent me a Craigslist [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:30:53

Rice Urges Ceasefire, Diplomatic Solution in Georgia

This news photo shows demonstrators sitting next to a poster depicting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the uniform of a ... to deliver on its pledge to cease fire in Georgia, as the United States draws up humanitarian aid plans ... House after briefing President Bush on diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Georgia, where [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 22:26:26

I Can Walk on Water!

We (finally!) went fishing last night!For those of you unaware of such things, this means walking (or driving) ... is drawing fish house plans. This is one of his designs, hand built by us in the barn. This is actually what could be considered a combination house. It can be used for fishing (and mostly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:02:00

On visiting Dickens’ only surviving London house

A conversation about literary pilgrimages with my favorite Poe fan last week reminded me that I never told you about my visit to the Charles ... Expectations or Bleak House. As I say, all sorts of papers and drawings and knick-knacks ... now to talk about the house of The Man Who Invented Christmas? Dickens lived at 48 Doughty Street [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 07:38:48

Red car in Riedlingen

Red car in Riedlingen I discovered a new way to meet friends recently. Draw their house. Strange- in the past 3 weeks I have chosen a house at random to sketch. As I'm sketching ... of the times I was invited into the house to see their artwork. I'm starting to realize that Kandern [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 14:00:00

My Town Monday: One World One Heart

One World One Heart I’ve written about our being connected and that living on Planet Earth, we really do live in the same town ... another one of my high tech drawings. I will be giving these to those whose names I draw. All items ... together after a devastating house fire. Chris, over at e-Cuniform scratchings, and Junosmom at Lifetime [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:01:24

Greene & Greene reproduction dining set: $16,700

Originally designed for Greene & Greene's Robinson House (original plans, including drawings for this table) ... - made by master craftsman Jim Ipekjian (who is responsible for much of the recent repair work at the Blacker House) - is for sale (along with 4 leaves; it seats up to 16, altogether; the price also [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 11:00:00

Happiness

 Making sure our canvassers reach out to as many home owners as possible.  We thrive on excitement and smiles, thanks, and happiness of a home owner that embraces the idea of two completely free services that benefit them and our two drawings for a house full of free [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:03:16

doodle keeps her busy

We notice how Olin loves to doodle, she often asks for a paper and pen or colors and she wouldn’t stop whining until you give her the things she’s ... , nevermind the drawings, it was by me :D The little one bugged me to draw her “haws and tee” (house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:17:21

Oh, the options!

What a week this is going to be! I will not be posting much today and tomorrow but thought I would leave you with a few gorgeous sketches I found over at WWD. They are all drawings of what the gals of the White House could wear on Tuesday night! I am so excited to find out who/what they pick. To be honest I hope it is a young up and coming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:00:00

Reflections on the World to Come

People who know me and hear my schtick on a regular basis probably tire of hearing them, ... will bring a single grape in a wagon or a ship, store it in the corner of their house, and draw [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 14:09:16

Just a theory

To help Cambridge University celebrate its 800th anniversary, ... . Blake’s drawings will be projected onto Cambridge’s Senate House and Old Schools today, Saturday, 17 ... illustrator and Cambridge alumnus Quentin Blake has made a series of special drawings of two other [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:23:17

Math Extra Credit Opportunities

Would you like to earn extra credit in math this nine weeks?  Here's your chance! ... be abstract).  Some ideas include drawings of cars, fruit, a house,  a dessert, pets, etc.  Your picture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:53:02

GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - December 16, 2008

GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips for December 16, 2008 includes news and commentaries on the following topics: Republican Party candidates, ... CBS2 -- House Votes 113-0 To Begin Impeachment Proceedings Blagojevich Has No Plans To Resign ... -- ENTIRE FRONT PAGE IS A DRAWING OF BLAGO AT A PODIUM DUCKING SHOES: House speaker moves to begin [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 15:45:06

Retake: Farmingville house features wall drawings

This house in North Farmingville is for sale. walldrawings Retake this photo, please ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 15:16:48

Turning 3D SketchUp Models Into Reality

Sweet Onion Creations is a company dealing with 3D printing. In the video, they show you how they load a model located in Google Earth ( ... -grade in quality. On the computer, a house or hillside is sliced up digitally and made ... drawings on the computer to the 3D model in the hand. If not carefully produced, a corrupt CAD file causes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:25:30

Things You Find in Your House While Cleaning–Part I

I found these odd drawings while cleaning up the house–we’re doing a vigorous spring cleaning, early. I have a vague memory of my mom drawing them–her vision of me, I guess, as some kind [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 19:34:28

Spy Shots Confirm Jaguar Is an Endangered Species

We've been nervous ever since Jaguar announced it is redesigning the venerable XJ ... alone. Gradual, often subtle, updates to a design that until recently remained true to Sir William Lyons' original drawings kept the XJ a wood-and-leather manor house on four wheels. Now Jaguar [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 12:45:50

Of star, light and houses

Of firesides and cease fires…As the time of light draws nearer; I find myself once more star-gazing in the Christmas cupboard.Being of secular bent, I should, I’m sure, think of it as the solstice store, yule cabinet or midwinter walk-in, but there are two reasons that I do not [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:59:15

expect the unexpected

We're back from Christmas vacation and therefore I'm back from my temporary blog hiatus ... and sleeping and feeding plans and discipline and other ideas about how this house will run ... .  However, we are having too much fun drawing vacation out at home as the girls don't return [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 17:53:15

Incredible disappearing waterway could cost Laguna millions

Sniff, sniff, snifffff…The Watchdog smells a lawsuit brewing… ... to the city in 2002 with plans for a 4,158 square foot house. Denied. Back again with a smaller ... commissioners examined architectural drawings, sniffed, said there were too many Tuscan-inspired [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:00:26

through a toddler’s lens

Last weekend, Maddie rooted through our closet and found my camera.  She then began running about the house taking pictures. babytakesphoto1 ... Communication.”  Because it features some of her drawings and depicts a rarely discernible “bird” [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:41:15

Of star, light and houses

Of firesides and cease fires… As the time of light draws nearer; I find myself once more star-gazing in the Christmas cupboard. Being of secular bent, I should, I’m sure, think of it as the solstice store, yule cabinet or midwinter walk-in, but there are two reasons that I do not. 1) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 01:29:39

The Solution for All Problems Facing the Right...

...will not be found here. Not on this site, not with Web 2.0, not on the Internet, not... .. ... to operate the tools, the tools themselves are relatively worthless. It takes architectural drawings ... . The Republican Party could build a socially conservative and fiscally liberal house. Alternately, the GOP [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 05:11:47

A Brief Walk Through High School Atmospheric Pressures and Other Necessary Areas of Interest

I feel like a little kid reading The Lord of the Rings or The Lost Years of Merlin when I read The Gunslinger series ... it was my mother’s room. I don’t begrudge my mother’s obsession with decorating her house ... were very New Age. I grew out of that fast. There were drawings on my closet walls–the only place [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:10:48

Tough weather sketching

Gabi Campanario at Urban Sketchershas a winter scene that gave me the shivers. "I didn't get much out of the house during the recent unusual snow storms. Here you can see ... Reserved *Igloo drawings, fireside poetry, sled sketches...share your frigid-weather journaling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 08:00:00

it’s a temporary kick to alleviate restraint

coffee with jer, who’s addicted to the word “hack”, and driving “funny bad” in the snow ... says. making plans with purtle to draw every day. tonight there’s a godard double feature over ... (sp?) at my mom’s house and make sheets out of them. that’s cute right? or too dingy? the grant went [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 23:05:18

Using 3d Drafting Software

Using 3d Drafting Software by admin on January 19th, 2009 I have been wanting to add on to the house that I had built years ago ... my addition. He is just starting out as an architect, doing drawings for various jobs ... is pretty cool because it essentially lets me look at what my house could look like once we build [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:40:50

Totally Awesome Giveaway: Win a spot in Big Picture Scrapbooking's first expert workshop of 2009: "Get Organized and Be Inspired" with Wendy Smedley

Organized The new year is just around the corner, and what do we all do in the new year? We make big plans to do stuff, right? ... , I've been to her house. It really does look like this. I have one free spot to give away ... draw a winner sometime on Sunday afternoon. In the mean time, feel free to check out the class [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 17:50:50

No Pink Walls, Or Slip For That Matter

I wrote back in October that I wanted to redo my bedroom ... is an architectural drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge. I make mechanical drawings for work so it is similar ... when pink elephants fly. Labels: Flip Joe's House, separation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:51:00

A Come Rinoceronte/ A is for Rhinoceros

I love Harriet Russell’s children’s books for many reasons. The first of those reasons (following her fantastic quirky illustrations of course) ... about her Colouring Book for the Lazy which features drawings of things that are supposed to only be black ... . So instead of “H is for…” house, or hat or horse, in Harriet’s alphabet world, H is for [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:13:51

Tiny Ink Bubbles

Bizarro is brought to you today by contributions from people like this ... . Thank goodness.Like most of my sketchbook drawings, these images were produced by starting ... ". To see the images full size, come to my house. Or just click on the images. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 19:01:00

Found old sketches and Houseboat fun

I have not been feeling to well the last few days but I was able to sort through more of my art stuff and get my bins filled and put away, ... my Morgue of pictures I have saved, I came across these two drawings I did in the late 70ies ... and harbors then. This was a sketch of my Dads house boat he and Con built. He had it docked [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:56:00

Paper Roses (a la Marie Osmond)

It Ain't John Steinbeck's Crepes Of WrathPhotographs copyright: ... by us when we built this home.I planned the garden before the house was built. I sketched each garden bed and each prospective plant on the architectural scale drawings. I sketched where the garden gate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 19:00:00

Gone Wyeth The Wind

And Andrew Wyeth makes three. Andrew Wyeth, whose evocations of a timeless rural present along the Maine coast and in Pennsylvania farm country made ... House. He was the first artist to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential ... of colored drawings,” the critic Hilton Kramer once wrote of Mr. Wyeth’s paintings, “illustrated dreams [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:56:00

Phantom of the Opera House

_3723 The Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world ... architect who conceived the Opera House, died in his sleep without ever having seen his completed ... more than a set of preliminary drawings - but the sketches were so compelling that one judge called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:50:24

free city wallpaper

“free city wallpaper” FREE DOWNLOAD AND SETUP MOST top rock acts travel to exotic locations and spend thousands of pounds on state-of-the-art ... in the list is New Zealand’s Finn, formerly of Split Enz and Crowded House as well as a 25-year solo ... to Drink in 2009 - read more Fourteen paintings and drawings incorporating images of war and historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 20:24:14

Our New President

Happy Inauguration Day!I was feeling ever so proud to see our two girls from San Francisco, ... to scribble notes, drawings during the event but hard to draw when one is so moved ... Lowery who brought some levity to this serious day. The new White House website here.Obama [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:17:00

In the Realms of the Unreal

Art Foundation Movie NightWednesday, January 21, 2009 Bowe Street Deck, ... , along with several hundred drawings and watercolors illustrating the story. Yu’s film is a documentary ... through the art of filmmaking. Art house films, Hollywood classics, and B-movies all find a home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:46:19

Book Review: “The Last Straw”

Jump to CommentsHold your applause ’til after the show please, but I, ... pages consist of cartoony drawings.  Nevertheless, it is indisputably a book, and I without a doubt ... he read it everyone in the house passed it around and had a good laugh.  I get a kick out of the realism [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:39:32

Fourth and Fifth Grade Students, Knights and dragons and jousting, oh, my! Our binder covers are now sporting some of these medieval images ...  in teams to design your timelines helped me see those who are very creative in their drawings as well ... , etc. Who? Where? When? (500-1500) Why did you choose this station in life? OPEN HOUSE for NEW TARGET [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 14:54:19

A tent, a rollercoaster and a merry-go-round

By Georgina AdamThe fashion-art overlap that was such a feature of the contemporary art boom has come to a screeching halt, at least chez Chanel, the French fashion house. The firm sunk a vast sum (millions of euros, said the French press ... are showing old master and modern drawings in a "walkabout week". Some of the exhibitors are Manhattan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:18:00

Simple Things

After seeing several videos and many blogs last week, I was inspired to do several simple drawings ... shakers and went to another room to retrieve them. I made several black line drawings of them ... liked the above image so much that I am planning to look for other simple objects in the house and make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:53:00

Pittsburgh Art Events 1/16-17/09.

Cold, cold, cold. But that doesn't mean you can't get in your car and engage the city ... my drawings their first proper showing at the long-defunct Arrow Gallery back in the day. Anyway ... sanctuaries. The Brew House (the corner of 21st and Mary Street) is opening "Yes, Thank You". Its organizers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 18:57:00

Refinancing Mortgage Deals - Tips To Find The Best Available

Whether you need cash to renovate your house, money for college, or simply want to liquidate some of the equity you’ve built up in your home, ... or improvement project will require you to submit documentation that includes full plans, architectural drawings, contractors’ estimates, project budget and an appraiser’s assessment of the home’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:40:38

CarSpa

About a year ago as Joey and I were driving north through Oklahoma on the way home to The Iowa for Christmas, I got really hungry for ice cream, ... on it like it was one of those chalk drawings Bert made in Mary Poppins, you know, the ones that washed away with the rain ... for any puppy), so we figured he got most of it out. And when we got to my [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:45:45

Coraline Graphic Novel

Since the jolt of receiving my Coraline Mystery Box I’ve been understandably curious about the upcoming animated movie, and equally frustrated that I can’t yet find a significant repository of Coraline concept art (though I did come across some very early concept drawings here). I’ve also noticed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 15:12:24

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