Every year the local high school enables students to paint shop windows throughout downtown with holiday scenes. Typical are pictures of the Grinch, Charlie Brown, or Snoopy. Year after year the same sorts of images go up, generally inspired by holiday cartoons. Last year, the Black Diamond Barbershop, which is on the first floor of …
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BASD “B” (Part 2)
Read part 1 here. Across the bottom of the Superintendent’s page on the BASD website, it says The Bellefonte Area School District community continually strives to “Inspire and Prepare Today’s Learners to Embrace Tomorrow’s Challenges.” Welcome!BE Informed • BE Involved • BE Connected • BElong in BEllefonte On the Middle School site, it says, “At …
Plate 14
“Hailey!” I called to her and her eyes popped open. She saw me, leaned over and put a finger to her lips. “We have to keep the noise down, coach. There’s nothing so far. I don’t want to scare ‘em.” She whispered down to me. “I know! Your brother just made contact. He wanted me …
old cover experiment
This, along with several sheets of vellum showing different arrangements, just tumbled out of a pile of old papers. After 30 years, I had forgotten all about it. Back before I started at the university, I’d left the restaurant to try to make it as a commercial artist. I bought a list of different businesses …
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It was such a moment. I had to draw it..
Plate 13
Warren looked at me and raised his eyebrows, “630s?” “Books in a library are kept in order by general subject and given numbers that the library adds to the book spine. See? These shelves here are, well, these shelves are all fiction. That’s by author. Over there starts the 100s. We can go from there.” …
Old slides
I came across a sheet of old slides, mostly of much older pastels. I taped them to a window and photographed them. The onion and tomato image was recovered from my parent’s house after my mom died; drawn in 1976. Over the winter it’s easy to plop something from the fridge onto my drawing table …
poster fair
In the early 2000s I did a yearly workshop on preparing graduate and undergraduate poster fair posters. I did them for over five years and eventually I reached a point where I couldn’t find the time. And I thought a move to digital presentations was inevitable. I kept the material in my Penn State web …
Plate 12
I’m not sure about some of this. Seeing it here helps me step back, assess and adjust. The library wasn’t quite open when I got there, so I ate the breakfast the café had packed. When I looked up. Warren was walking towards me. I felt a wave of relief; he was laughing and talking …
Saturn hit
On Friday, December 15, 2023, my granddaughter and I returned to my parked Saturn on Spring Street. As we checked the meter, three women came out of the Monarch beauty salon and yelled that someone had just hit my car and went down Cherry alley. “It was a dark orange-ish red pick-up.” They showed me …