I can still hear her voice. Her full name was: Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne “Cokie” Roberts. 1943-2019
[My way of spending a little extra time with her. One hour and twenty-five minutes and 3,138 brush strokes, to be exact, in Sketch Club on an iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil, plus a tweak in iColorama.]
Reference photo by Heidi Gutman/ABC
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I hardly ever post anything about the English as a Second Language (ESL) classes I teach. I always take my iPad and project it onto a large screen. Oftentimes, I do a digital drawing in Paper 53 that accompanies a set of scrambled words that I ask students to unscramble. It works especially well at the very beginning of my multi-level, adult, beginning ESL classes as students trickle in. Here’s a collection of a few that I’ve recently used.
Teaching ESL is a fun way to apply anthropology.
Howard Zinn
A freehand, digital drawing done on an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil using the Sketch Club app.
These are some of the public servants whom I admire; in his own way, each of these men has stood up to the most divisive, corrosive, and imbecilic leader this country has known. Rather than call attention to him and those whom he is leading astray, I shed a little light on these three models of public service.
Jerry
Adam
Elijah
50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. Mission Control.
Angel Trumpet Annyth: iPad painting in Sketch Club, near Stinson Beach
Hats Off: iPad painting in Sketch Club of a dear friend, David In Muir Woods; oh, I’m there too!
Sausalito Sidewalk Bench: iPad drawing in Sketch Club done on a bench in front of a shop in Sausalito
Parkside Snack Bar: iPad painting in Sketch Club of our go-to place in Stinson Beach, CA
Sleeping Man on Light Rail Train: iPad painting in Sketch Club of “moving relaxation.”
Cohousing is for the Birds: iPad painting in Sketch Club of a birdhouse on the grounds of Green Grove Cohousing
Diane Leafe Christian on Sociocracy: iPad Sketch in Sketch Club during a talk at the 2019 Cohousing Conference in Portland, OR
Raines Cohen on Cohousing as Social Enterprise: iPad painting in Sketch Club done at the 2019 Cohousing Conference in Portland, OR
Coming back up for air: iPad drawing in Tayasui Sketches on the return flight
The folks who are so worried about sinking into the quicksand of demographic history won’t be here.
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Face Value* by comparison.
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*…with several significant exceptions.
I know a little bit about the bible. I have an M.Div. for Christ’s sake; it’s one of three graduate degrees for Pete’s sake! I may no longer be an ordained Benedictine monk, but I sure as Hell sat through my share of biblical studies, theology, even some Greek and Latin courses. Most of them were interesting, some even fascinating. I had a brilliant seminary professor, one of several like that, in fact, who approached the study of sacred scriptures from a literary-criticism perspective, steeped in critical hermeneutics, semiology, and philology…right up my alley. He planted the following image in my mind. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions; but, I find it interesting that the image conjures up a ton of contrasting and startling questions about how religion is used by some to predict and control (i.e. dominate) on one hand, and how, on the other hand, it’s used by others simply to deepen one’s appreciation of the Mystery of Life and come to terms with the ethical implications of that universally-applicable and humbling factor.
Check out Smoke and Mirrors here on this illustroblog, please.
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Last night, May 6, 2018, while watching United Shades of America, catching an interesting and informative episode focusing on Sikhism, seeing my first Californian Sikh almond farmer, and being intrigued by the turban (click here to view a gallery from the show), I sketched the following image on my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, using Sketch Club and iColorama:
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