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02 Apr

Clouds

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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Driving around in this variable weather gave me the opportunity to analyze how clouds really look. A lightbulb went off in my head as I realized that one can't see the characteristic fluffy top of a cloud when it hovers...

29 Mar

Blog

Graphic Recording

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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When I tell people that I do graphic recording, most don't know what it is. Here are a few snapshots of some of the 8-foot+ recordings I have done to help groups 1) sort out their differences 2) brain storm...

20 Mar

Portfolio

season cards

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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A theme I never tire of is that of the seasons. Even in California, the year metamorphoses periodically. It's magical and fundamental and I an enthralled by nature's performance. I created artwork layering watercolor and line art and turned it...

18 Mar

Blog, Drawings

Lichen

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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Here is some lichen and old man's beard I found on a plein air excursion down the peninsula. Lichen is the result of a nice symbiotic relationship between green algae and a fungus. They are remarkably vulnerable to air purity...

29 Feb

design

Emotional Rescue Kit

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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I learned how to temper and mold chocolates and couldn't wait to make up gift boxes for friends and family. I thought of the comfort chocolate brings us and created medicine-chest-looking "Emotional Repair Kits" to soothe whatever ailed them.Here's what...

29 Feb

Drawings

Jewelry box

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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I was tired of untangling necklaces and earrings and couldn't find a jewelry box to purchase that wouldn't perpetuate the problem. So I took a wooden wine box and converted it to a vertical jewelry box which solved my problem....

29 Feb

Blog, Drawings

Gardening

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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When I first came to California, I didn't recognize a lot of the plants, because so many would never thrive on the East Coast. I started gardening in earnest in 2004, with my first garden. Luckily, my neighbor, a Dutch...

28 Feb

Blog

Almond orchard

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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Last week I took a trip to the Sacramento Valley, where almond blossoms were beginning to come out, and the bee hives had been trucked in to fertilize them. I visited the organic orchards of Glenn & Leslie Anderson, and...

28 Feb

Blog, Drawings

Party birds

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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Every year at this time, the berries of the Pyracantha and Cottoneaster get ripe—really ripe as in fermented—and the birds go nuts. It sounds like a party all day long as flocks of beautiful Cedar Waxwings and over-wintering Robins hang...

28 Feb

Blog

Bûche pour le Nouvel An

June 25, 2024
By Diana Howard
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I love making all sorts of pastry, especially when there's construction involved. I have made a bûche almost every year. Here's the one for Jan 1 2012, made with chocolate sponge cake, mocha buttercream, and the traditional meringue mushrooms.

Clouds

Graphic Recording

season cards

Lichen

Emotional Rescue Kit

Jewelry box

Gardening

Almond orchard

Party birds

Bûche pour le Nouvel An

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