…Ronovan sends us the prompts Truth and Deep
All You Need is Love
Truth of a matter
Lies deeply within the soul
Brought forward with love
Haiku Challenge #19 – Truth and Deep
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Author Archives: Mama Cormier
New Flower (Nov. 25, 2014) – Euonymus
…..I’ve had this scrub in my garden for years and never noticed that it produces berries in the fall
Share Your World – 2014 – Week 47
…..this week Cee has changed up the format
List at least 50 Things You Enjoy.
1. My husband
2. My husband’s cooking
3. My children and their significant others
4. Doing art
5. Teaching art
6. Children’s art
7. Reading books, both to myself and to children
8. Spending time with my friends
9. Going out for dinner, occasionally
10. Pizza night at the Cormier’s (homemade of course)
11. Two months at the cottage
12. Travelling with my husband
13. Weekends with the girls
14. Trips to the art gallery and museum
15. Car trips into the country
16. Walks on the beach in the summer
17. Walks in the the neighbourhood all year round
18. Going to the theatre and to concerts
19. Taking art classes and learning new techniques
20. Baking at Christmas time
21. Blogging
22. Taking photos
23. Singing in a choir
24. Riding my bike
25. Gardening (not the weeding part)
26. Spending time with my children
27. Running with my daughter
28. Talking on the phone with my sisters and friends
29. Talking on the phone and visiting with my Dad
My 88 year old Dad and me.
30. Making treats for the staff at school
31. Coaching children’s sports teams at school
32. Teaching art to the kindergarten class
33. Buying books for the library
34. Learning new crafts
35. Buying clothes
36. A good glass of wine 
37. Cheese…..all kinds of cheese
38. Restorative yoga
39. Pedicures
Getting our feet ready for sandal season.
40. Wine touring
41. Getting together with old friends
42. Watching a good movie
43. Birthday parties, staff parties, Christmas parties and weddings
44. Knitting
45. Playing my ukulele
46. Playing board games and cards, i.e. scrabble and euchre
47. Playing the slots and games on the midway (once or twice a year)
48. A great cup of coffee
49. Freshly baked bread
50. Watching Survivor, Amazing Race, Dancing with the Stars
51. Spending time with our dog, Frances
52. Going to the farmers’ markets in the summer and autumn 
Silent Sunday – Nov. 23, 2014
A Photo a Week Challenge – Movie Reference
…join Nancy Merrill in her Photo a Week Challenge
I really didn’t think I had anything to share for this challenge until I remembered that the Humber College buildings that we pass almost daily on our walks were used eons ago for the movies.
The building that I’ve photographed was was originally on the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital grounds and was used as the headquarters of the police academy for the movie. The actual building appeared in Police Academy 1 (1984), 3 and 4. The series starred Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall.
Today the grounds were bought up by Humber College and all the buildings, except the one used in the movie have been restored and are now used as classrooms and offices.
Sunday Tree – 158
…..now that we’ve officially had our first snow storm most of the trees have been stripped of their leaves
I’ve always been a huge fan of bark. I love the texture, the subtle colours and the interesting lines that bark produces.
For more Sunday Trees check out Becca Givens’ site.
New Flower (Nov. 23, 2014) – A Rose in Late November
….a rose this time of year is rare in Toronto
Table Top Painting and Drawing Part 2
….I finished my on-line course this week
I really enjoyed this on-line class with Diane Culhane. I don’t always finish all the assignments but for some reason this class held my interest and the assignments didn’t inhibit me. Carla Sonheim really has a knack for finding amazing art instructors for her on-line classes.
The last three days of this six-day class involved painting on gessoed paper, a textured wood panel and glazed canvas and making glazes with acrylic paint. All the compositions consisted of table top still life arrangements that we had to create. Here are my creations in the order that I finished.
On gessoed paper.
On a textured wood panel.
On a glazed canvas.
Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Glass
Picasso Portraits as Seen Through the Eyes of Children
….my kindergarten class just finished their Picasso portraits
After discussing faces and the different parts and how to draw them I introduced Pablo Picasso to my kindergarten class. We talked about the difference between reality painting and abstract painting and how Picasso could do both. I had photographs of some of Picasso’s abstract portrait paintings and then I drew an oval shape and divided it with a vertical line down the centre. I encouraged the children to use curvy or zigzag lines and to add more than one.
The next part was the fun part. They could draw as many eyes, noses and mouths as they wanted. They could use any colour for skin and hair. Each child was given a black Sharpie to draw a shape for the face, the lines within the shape and then all the facial features that they wanted to add. When they were done with that they took crayons and coloured in their Picasso faces and some of them coloured the background as well. I was amazed at the detail that they added. They really took the time to examine some of Picasso’s portraits and you could see how they tried to incorporate some of his design details in their own work. I think they’re fabulous. You be the judge.
