Maine lighthouse and boats, kids' drawing class, 8/7/18

Class visitors had a connection to Owls Head Light, so we tried a follow-along drawing for that. We also drew a skiff, and a Friendship Sloop sailboat.

Questions to ask people at a smallish luncheon gathering, ideas

A friend invited a small group over for a porch party. I 'armed' myself by making a list of questions I could ask people, or might ask if I were doing a podcast interview. (That is something  I may try one day.) I don't think I got to ask any of these questions. People had plenty of things they wanted to tell each other, or that they just asked each other. Still, I liked that I had my list tucked away. I want to write it up on little question cards too. The wordings in these ideas is not that fluid - more in note form. Later I sent this list to my friend, since I had told her of it but had not been able to find it then. And I included a little digital drawing of this porch party.

1. Work before retirement?
2. What liked best about it?
3. What liked least? 
4. Why Maine?
5. Why here?
6. How long ago retired?
7. How long ago moved?
8. Current interests and activities?
9. Your intentions for retirement?
10. Book group, knitting, art, music, foreign language study, birds, nature/journal, Exercise, writing, book genres?
11. Highlights - short events tours highlight short events tours
12. Group tour experiences
13. Volunteer activities
14. How did you develop friends etc. in your new places?
15. What are you liking most here?
16. What are you liking the least here?
17. Snowbirds?
18. Winter travels and migrations
19. Family
20. Leaving where you used to live
21. Miss careers?
22. Podcast/interview questions topics, people
23. What questions do you ask people?
24. Drawing 

World Lion Day 8/10/18

I just saw that it is supposedly World Lion Day today, except I heard it a couple days late! Here are a few from a long time ago. The papercuts I cut freehand - used the scissors to draw with! I did the line drawing as a large demo, using compressed charcoal.

Marshall Point Light drawings and exercises, adult art class student group display, 8/6/18, and reference photo.

You can see the exercises here that we started with. A row of colored in rectangles with no initial outlining. Triangles the same. A row of hats. A row of ski caps! Then triangles that get progressively longer on their right side. Class had few reference pictures to share from. I did the demo from memory, hoping it would basically hit the marks. ...There is a graphic visual appeal working in this conceptual manner.

I have since found the reference photo among my Walmart photos. Now you can take your time drawing this as you wish!

Maine lighthouses, student art display, (children and adults), kids' drawing class, 7/31/18

We did simplified interpretations of Marshall Point & Owls Head lights.

A family who have been visiting the classes from the very beginning on their yearly trips to Maine, returned yesterday. The same thing happened in the adult class the previous day. These youngsters had come to the first classes around age 4. What a miracle of life to get to see them as almost grown. What magic!

And we had a new 4 year old visitor!

Exercises sketch for the exercises strategies list, 8/1/18

Strategies and games ideas for motivation to get one's self doing simple exercise routines, 8/1/18

Exercises games ideas, 7/30/18, CK 

I had been encouraging a friend that it was a lot easier to get one's self exercising if one could make it fun somehow. I suggested making a list of such possibilities. A week or so later, no, no list... ok, so I want to see if I can come up with such a list. Yes, and here it is. I need a list of small rewards too now!

• Brainstorm big list – 10 kinds
• Write on chips or slips
• Random pick three
• Do - one minute each – how many weeks for this game before increasing the ante with the times?
• Track daily and exercise log or some kind of journal/study record. 
• Spreadsheet and form for tracking
• Put together music playlist to do exercise to
• Use timer with fun music reward
• Collect exercise or dance videos to move to. Aways keep a log
• Make graphed images to fill in color blocks as you complete
• Make a long rewards list
• Record, track before and after feelings
• Turn the whole process into a story/ a person/ a servant/ a role/ an animal/ a person being studied/ a person in a clinical trial
• Turn the whole process into a graphic novel – as you go along
• Write an article on the process as it happens
• Advent calendar or style rewards
• Compete with a buddy
• Get a buddy to do it with as a partner, to keep each other motivated
• Role play games with avatars and scores – there is a website with this premise for achieving goals over challenges and difficulties