27 Results for : topiary
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Doodling: How to Master Doodling in 6 Easy Steps, The Blokehead Success Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 55min
Before someone tries to learn how to doodle he or she needs to understand what doodling actually is. The word doodle comes from German, and referred to a person who was a fool, or who was simple in some way. The modern meaning of the word, referring to small drawings done idly while one thinks, came about in the 1930s and might be connected to the word dawdle for someone who's wasting time. All of the history aside though, a doodle is nothing more than an unfocused or unconscious drawing, typically made while one's attention is supposed to be focused elsewhere. This is why doodles often show up in the margins of notebooks or on sticky notes at work; people who are tethered in place and stuck listening to a phone call, lecture, etc. will pick up a pen and begin to make small, unfocused drawings. These are doodles. How to DoodleThere's no right or wrong way to doodle, much as there's no right or wrong way to draw in the first place. Doodlers can use the margins of a notebook or a pad of sticky note reminders just as easily as they can use a pristine white sketchbook. A doodler can use a number 2 pencil, a ballpoint pen, or really any other drawing implement that he or she desires. As long as you have a medium, it's possible to doodle. When it comes time to start doodling it's important to let your mind wander and to focus on any creative idea it comes across. Perhaps you see a large letter A on your letterhead, and decide to draw vines encircling it like something out of an old book of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Maybe you decide to add roses to the vines, turning the A into a fully-fledged topiary. Perhaps you decide to put a castle on top of the pinnacle of the A. Maybe you draw the vines hanging down and swinging in an unseen breeze. Grab the book now to know more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ginger Cucolo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/027520/bk_acx0_027520_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Portrait Before Dark (eBook, ePUB)
Portrait Before Dark is a poem cycle that constitutes an imaginary dialogue between the poet and patron of the arts, Edward James, and the eccentric Viennese ballerina and star of the 1920's, Tilly Losch. Liana Sakelliou began writing these poems in August 2009, when she was serving as writer-in-residence at West Dean College in West Sussex, England. Three days before she was to leave for the U.K., a wildfire surrounded her home and neighborhood. In minutes the pine forest and hillside olive groves were lost. For days, the suitcase and the clothes she'd packed smelled of smoke. Edward James, the Anglo-American millionaire, gave his estate to a charitable trust, the Edward James Foundation, which includes the mansion, West Dean House, where the college is located. She sat on the satin Mae West Lips Sofa, one of Salvadore Dalí's surrealist sculptures and read James's poems. Through the biographical films that were screened at West Dean, she discovered James's friendships with artists such as Leonora Carrington, Dalí, and René Magritte, and with writers such as Christopher Isherwood, Edith Sitwell, and Evelyn Waugh. He seemed to know everyone from his era. He spoke to Freud, knew members of the Bloomsbury group, and was one of the most generous English patrons of the arts in the early 20th Century. He helped Max Ernst and Dylan Thomas, as well as the aforementioned artists. In 1933, during his marriage to Losch, James funded Balanchine's first ballet company, Les Ballets 1933, which was the foundation for his American Ballet Company. He commissioned The Seven Deadly Sins, a collaboration by Kurt Weil and Bertolt Brecht, featuring Losch as prima ballerina and Lotte Lenya as vocal soloist. Their marriage from 1930 to 1934 was short and disastrous, and their divorce was a scandal in London society. In 1937, Magritte painted two faceless portraits of James: "The Pleasure Principle: Portrait of Edward James" and "Not to be Reproduced," to which Sakelliou refers in her poems. The setting of West Dean seemed made for children-with topiary birds and spirals, lush flowers, conservatories, and sheep one could pet. Sakelliou saw portraits of the James family, as well as Man Ray and Pavel Tschelitchew photos of Edward and Tilly walking through the palace corridors. She liked their faces, their poses. She wanted to write quiet, allusive poems that speak through their voices. The English woodlands serve as a flexible space for Sakelliou's concerns about the Greece's beautiful and fragile environment and the wildfires that continue to ravage the country every summer combined with her imagining the spaciousness of Edwards's and Losch's love as conflicting emotions burn down their marriage.- Shop: buecher
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Pianoscapes
Deborah Keily Hanson's debut album, Pianoscapes blends the vibrancy and color of the impressionist artists with the beauty and clear melodic lines of the romantic composers. Do you always compose with a person in mind? Yes, I try to capture the musical personality of pianists. A 'musical portrait'. 'Palawan' is an island in the Philippines. It is dedicated to my friend, Filipino pianist Tessie Chua Chiaco Goodman in honor of her birthday. There are many birds on the island, so I used bird calls in the music, and one sounds like 'Hello, are you there?' 'Angel Rhapsody' is a dance with an angel. This piece is dedicated to my daughter, Aubrye Michelle Hanson who is my angel. Many others have connected with this piece for their special angels, so it is named Angel Rhapsody for all of our angels. 'Marito' was composed as a birthday gift for my friend, Argentine pianist Mario Roque. Mario works and plays to raise money for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. The lyrics to this piece sound like, 'Mario Augusto Roque, happy birthday to you! A beautiful, bright shining sun when the morning is new.' 'Tango de Eduardo came about after attending a concert of Argentine pianist Eduardo Delgado. Delgado's beautiful tone and lyricism in his playing inspired the 'Tango de Eduardo', in which I used the letters of his name, E,D,A,Do for the motif, and the phrase, 'Tango Eduardo Delgado'. This piece is sultry and sexy, and portrays a couple dancing in a warm, summer evening in Argentina. What inspired you to begin composing? My first piece, 'Starry Night' was composed for my friend and teacher, Vitaly Margulis. I used the numbers of his birthday for the motif. The entire piece is structured around the intervals and chords created by the numbers, 4-16-1928. Margulis was amused and pleased with my foray into composing, which encouraged me to continue writing. My second piece, 'Nijo Gardens' is for the pianist Kanae Matsumoto. Nijo Castle and Gardens is located outside of Kyoto, Japan. It is a beautiful, artistically designed park open to the public, and many schoolchildren visit there. Nijo Gardens has many pools of water, topiary and stone bridges, plus a castle. Nijo Gardens was awarded first place in the California MTAC Composer's Today Contest, 2011. My father, John P. Keily is an artist. I am so lucky to have his paintings in my home. Each one of my pieces also has a famous painting to go along with the music. Starry Night, Van Gogh. Nijo Gardens, a bridge by Monet. Tango de Eduardo, 'The Boating Party' by Renoir. Marito, a Matisse. Angel Rhapsody, an original pastel titled 'Hummingbird's Wing' by my daughter, Aubrye. Palawan is a Picasso. I hope you enjoy my music, that it takes you places, and gives rest after long days.- Shop: odax
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