John D Dingell VA Medical Center

John D Dingell VA Medical Center, down in the Cultural District. Sorry about the keyhole effect, wide angle.

Kresge Ford Building

HAPPY ST. Patrick's Day! May you enjoy the wearin' O the Green! (Or orange).

At the College for Creative Studies--this is adjacent to the DIA and not far from Wayne State in Cultural District. These people have my fellowship application.

The beautiful Irish Cross was painted by KJ Ward. I borrowed it for this greeting.

Irvin D Reid Honors College at Wayne State

We took a stroll around Wayne State.

Wayne State is an interesting and eclectic urban university. I guess it has a very good reputation.

And here's one of my latest paintings:


I'm fairly happy with the painting which is gouache on blue paper. I'm NOT happy with the paper, which turns out to be too thin and fragile or with the scanner which did really bad job making this look right--the paint is very reflective to the scanner light--it looks much better in natural light. I swear it looks better in real life. (I'm going to try to IRON it!) The painting is after one by Ray Campbell Smith. The shapes of mine are similar, but the colors are different. And his is watercolor while mine is gouache.

Wedding at the DIA

I was not involved, I was just an innocent bystander, LOL! I love seeing wedding by accident like that--and it was a perfect day.

The last pictures is some of my current artwork in progress.

The Detroit Public Library

I've never been inside. I go to the local branch and take out many books, but I've never been inside this one. I hate to admit that and I hope to rectify it soon. But we were on another mission, and didn't have time, as has always been the case when we were there.

Outdoor Sculpture

At the College of Creative Studies and the Scarab Club (almost next
door to each other in the Cultural District of Detroit.)

Poetry at the Scarab Club

The cultural district isn't far from downtown Detroit. The Scarab
club is directly across from the DIA (Detroit institute of Arts) and
DSC (The Detroit Science Center.) The Monday-night poetry reading was
held in the art gallery, newly air-conditioned, which was a relief
from the heat. Here, a bout 1/3 of the audience listens. (There were
two more sections of audience.) Speaking is ML Liebler, a big name in
Detroit poetry.

Around the DIA

Here is some of the statuary around the outside of the DIA--Detroit Institute of Arts. And here is my latest art piece.

Museum of African American History and Vintage Cars

The African American History Museum is a very interesting building. This is down in the cultural District, near the art museum and the Scarab Club.

We've been invited, as Detroit Bloggers, to ride in the Woodward Dream Cruise in the 100-car Parade celebrating 100 years of GM cars. We'll hopefully be riding in a VINTAGE car. YAY! We have to get up early and be there at 6 Am in oder to take the shuttle bus from Royal Oak to the Parade start.

We are leaving TOMORROW for Upstate NY, will return maybe Aug 10. I may or may not be able to post while I am away.

I have a new small painting called The Coming Storm posted here. And here is my Photo Friday post for beauty, from Greenfield Village.

A Peek into the Powder Room at the Scarab Club

I'm taking a class Monday nights at the Scarab Club in Detroit's
cultural district. I thought the old-fashioned rest room was rather
fun, so I decided to share it with you.

I apologize profusely for not commenting and will try to catch up as
soon as I can.

I just finished the first draft of one of the several books I am
working on and am deep into another. I am also trying to adopt my
husband's son, Piano Boy. We need 16 pieces of certified official
paperwork and today we finally received the 5th. 11 to go. It's a
LOT of work and time.

If you are interested, you can see my new alphabet book for the grandkids here and my artbook here.

Monoogian Visual Resource Center, Wayne State

It looked interesting inside too, but it was closed. This is on the
Wayne State Campus in Detroit's Cultural District. Click iamges to
view larger.