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The Summer of Pasta
The Summer of Pasta ain’t so bad if you like to eat!… But bad if you’re on a diet.
I’ve been watching this you tube channel called Pasta Grannies this summer. It’s actually amazing how much tradition goes into the cooking and the making of the pasta, it makes me want to learn. And learn I must! But it also makes me want to keep the recipes of my grandmother going and pass them onto my children some day and become a pasta granny myself! Traditions are so important because it really keeps the memory and keeps the bond of family alive. I do miss so many summers with my grandmother in the kitchen or in the garden helping her can pickles or learn how to bake bread. I hope that I can pass that love onto my family as well.
But the show is also neat because you can glimpse a different city in Italy and see their cultures and their family traditions that you might like to add to your family! I know I’m going to try! And also try and learn Italian and also maybe move there someday…(sigh)
Okay enough about pasta and love. I will become a pasta granny someday and I can’t wait. 😀
-CM
A Glimpse at the terrible content that is the July issue
haunted house revisited
haunted house digitally revisited
and here is the before drawing:
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I tried smoothing the lines and making the colors much darker. You know how colored pencils leave those lines…but truly I like the original. I don’t know yet…
Hope you like it!
a digitally revised version of a drawing I did a month ago.
IF: Shy
For Illustration Friday’s word: Shy.
Being shy isn’t a bad trait, as some people would like to say…
I know how it is to be shy and sometimes it hurts to try and speak up, speak out, and express yourself. It doesn’t mean you’re stupid, or that you don’t have the same thoughts and characteristics as outspoken people. It’s just a horrible uncomfortable feeling to be around people sometimes, or to try and talk to complete strangers, or to even co-workers or your peers. When I’m around people I’m comfortable with I can be quite funny and loud and just generally like everyone else. But you wouldn’t know that if you just met me…
And you’d think as you get older the feeling of shyness goes away, but I feel it’s only gotten worse with me. As I take a look at what lies ahead for me, or if I try to start a career in art, it only frightens me and I stop dead in my tracks of progress. Maybe it is just fear and not shyness that makes me this way, but it’s something I must confront and stop it from controlling my life sometimes…
anyway, I know there are a lot of sensitive people in this world who are like me and it helps to have people in your life who understand how it feels to be sensitive. They can push you and give you a positive boost in a negative world…
CODE MUSh
Beware of the house with the red door!
For Illustration Friday’s word, “haunt.”
Beware of the house with the red door… something lurks inside! I see a few pair of eyeballs and that door…that door, the color of BLOOD. The moon shines an ominous glow onto the house, where passer-by’s shutter, feel the hairs rise upon their backs. Beware of the house with the red door!! Something eerie dwells inside!
Happy Halloween everyone!
-Code Mush
I used pen and colored pencils.
Not too Late
These two objects don’t really go together at all (tomato and coffee mug if you were wondering what those two objects were) but they were on my straw mat this morning as I was meditating. I advise that coffee really isn’t something you want to be drinking while trying to meditate. I simply just could not focus! Jitter bug that I am…
The tomato came from my very own tomato plant and it’s just about to turn red ( I pick them early because I have some pesky birds that will try to eat them if I don’t pick it early enough). I guess green tomatoes are bitter and so is black coffee…that would be the only correlation with the two (that and they come from some kind of plant). How do I turn those into a meditation practice? Well, I didn’t, I just turned it into an opportunity to draw!
It’s not too late to find random things and turn it into some creativity!
CABBAGE HEAD!
Do you know what happens when you mix a lot of rain, combined with an awesome vegetable garden? You get: GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
Or when you eat entirely too much cabbage, go outside in the rain, and up sprouts a …GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
Sometimes when you imagine a world full of nothing but awesome vegetable gardens with a large amount of awesome thunderstorms you get: GIANT CABBAGE HEAD!
okay…the key word is rain (oh and cabbage). So we’ve gotten a lot of rain and I purchased this giant cabbage from a local farm here outside of town (Â http://texadus.com/) and I couldn’t believe the size of this thing (it was twice the size of my head). I was inspired instantly to draw a cabbage head. Actually I purchased this almost a month ago, had the idea since then but have procrastinated this long into drawing it. But…it’s real, it grew, and it became my head.
So…if you can imagine here with me a person sitting on a couch, a laptop in front of them, typing away at a blog with a giant cabbage for a head, then you’ve fully described…ME! and I’m not ashamed of it. Everything around me is suddenly all green, I taste dirt and cabbage…and please don’t get me near a sauna for fear I might become steamed cabbage head. I might just eat my own head. Oh, and don’t think about making me into coleslaw, this head ain’t for chopping!
—CODE MUSH
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