Doctor Andy by Johannah Bluedorn

Ef the way a man lights out of this world
Helps fix his heft for the other sp’ere,
I reckon my old friend Golyer’s Ben
Will lay over lots of likelier men
For one thing he done down here.
You didn’t know Ben? He driv a stage
On the line they called the Old Sou’-west;
He wa’n’t the best man that [...]

Girl Chopping Onions (1646)
by Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
Netherlands Baroque painter & draftsman
Student of Rembrandt
Beautiful picture, but something is definitely wrong.

Painting by Eugenio Zampighi

Winslow Homer — Dad’s Coming

Jay From Cleveland, also known as the Homeschool Classical Astronomy guru, hijacked my blog today.

American Trivium

Here are some photos of a Nature Craft project Johannah prepared one year long ago as a 4-H project. Nature Craft is something you make using only items found in nature (leaves, grass, flowers, bark, rocks, etc.).

This project consists of a thin horizontal slice of a tree trunk with a rustic farm yard scene laid [...]

Walter Langley (1852 - 1922)
English artist. Born to a very large family near the slums of Birmingham, Langley started his artistic career at fifteen as an apprentice to a lithographer. At twenty-one he won a scholarship to South Kensington and studied design. Later he turned to painting in oils and finally to watercolor. His [...]