http://deedeehampton.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:20:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just back from the Folks Fest in Lyons Colorado- 3 days of camping with loved ones along the river & listening to great music- my favorite "new to me" band was "Girly Man" While at the Folks Fest, my friends & family kindly posed their eyeballs for me to support ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1490 I've decided to take photos of my friends eyes only at parties this year, next year I think it will be ears or noses or feet? what do you think? after all the eyes are the window to the soul. Don't ya make my brown eyes  blue eye on heaven laughing eye Did ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1481 I don't know if it is a Libra thing or a human "thing" but I always feel like I am juggling to find balance in my life. Winters in Estes are almost too quiet socially but are filled on my days off from work with time in my studio. Summers ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1459 Joe & I headed up to the Snowy Peaks mountain range in Wyo. to camp over the weekend. The flowers & scenery of the High Peaks with lake after lake after lake was soooo beautiful!! These "Old Men of the Mountain" flowers always face toward the sun: What perfect days- ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1451 "To encapsulate the notion of Mardi Gras as nothing more than a big drunk is to take the simple and stupid way out, and I, for one, am getting tired of staying stuck on simple and stupid. Mardi Gras is not a parade. Mardi Gras is not girls flashing on French ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1414 Wikiipedia defines art as "the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions." Last week Joe & I went down to New Orleans for my Behrman Bees High School Reunion - here's my "old" gang: "The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1407 invention: idea in, vent out.       I've been thinking about portraying heaven & hell -do they exist?- what do they look like?- where are they located? how does one get in? or out? A vintage postcard that I have in my collection: It says: "God made the world, and rested seven days God made man ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1402 The night before departing for Taos & 8 days of a process painting workshop with Michele Cassou at the Mabel Dodge Luhan house, my friend Suzy Foy, who has taken many of these workshops, commented: "This workshop will change your life!" The impact of Michele's workshops speaks for itself upon ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1392 On the road again: Leaving snow behind in Estes Park, Janice & I took off for what we hoped would be spring time in  Taos, to participate in an 8 day process painting workshop with Michelle Cassou. "Michele Cassou has designed a revolutionary way of unblocking the creative potential: The Point ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1368 Joe & I zipped (and I mean zipped- down on Sunday after work & back on Tuesday) to Santa Fe to meet up with my brother, Win, who is selling his house there & wanted to give me a carved post from India-shown here and a carved panel from a ... http://deedeehampton.com/blog/?p=1351