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I had a great time this afternoon with the girls. We went to the theatre and watched a great puppet show. I was afraid the younger one would not enjoy it, because she had skipped her afternoon nap, but she just loved it! And I even managed a few sketches with her on my lap, under the dim lights, that I coloured when I arrived home.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
The Puppet Show
Hoje passei uma bela tarde com as miúdas. Fomos ao teatro ver um espectáculo de marionetas muito divertido. Estava com medo que a mais pequena não estivesse à altura do acontecimento, porque não tinha feito a costumada sesta, mas ela gostou imenso! E com ela ao colo, sob a luz fraca dos projectores, ainda consegui fazer uns desenhos, que pintei com aguarelas ao chegar a casa.
Monday, July 16, 2007
My First EDM Challenge - #127: Sky
Esta é a minha primeira participação no desafio Every Day Matters. O tema da semana é o céu e eu tentei pintar o céu visto da janela da minha cozinha. Gosto muito da vista desta janela e apesar de não o usar tanto como gostaria, este é um dos meus cantos preferidos para ler. Aqui ficam duas tentativas de retratar o céu deste meio-dia, com cerca de uma hora de intervalo entre elas. Quando estava a meio da primeira, tive que interromper para ir pôr fim a uma briga entre as miúdas - o que se nota, porque estava a tentar pintar o céu sobre o papel molhado e quando voltei, parte dele já estava seco... Quando acabei, adormeci a mais pequenina e fiz o segundo. Os azuis já tinham desaparecido e o céu estava agora mais escuro, mas com uma bonita luz amarelada a passar por entre as núvens densas.
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This is my first participation in an Every Day Matters challenge. This week's theme is sky and I tried to picture the sky as seen from my kitchen's window. I love the view and although I don't use it as often as I would like to, this is one of my favourite reading spots. So here are two attempts at this noon's sky, approximmately one hour apart from each other. When I was in the middle of the first one I had to get up to stop a fight between the kids - and it shows, for I was trying to paint a wet into wet sky and when I got back, part of it was already dry. After finishing it, I put the small one to sleep and then did the second one. The blues had gone and the sky was now darker, but with a nice bright yellow light showing through the dense clouds.
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This is my first participation in an Every Day Matters challenge. This week's theme is sky and I tried to picture the sky as seen from my kitchen's window. I love the view and although I don't use it as often as I would like to, this is one of my favourite reading spots. So here are two attempts at this noon's sky, approximmately one hour apart from each other. When I was in the middle of the first one I had to get up to stop a fight between the kids - and it shows, for I was trying to paint a wet into wet sky and when I got back, part of it was already dry. After finishing it, I put the small one to sleep and then did the second one. The blues had gone and the sky was now darker, but with a nice bright yellow light showing through the dense clouds.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Inspire Me Thursday - Weekly Journal Prompt
O desafio da semana passada do Inspire Me Thursday era dividir uma página do diário gráfico em sete secções e, durante os sete dias seguintes, documentar exactamente o que estávamos a fazer às sete horas e onze minutos (da manhã ou da tarde, a escolha era nossa, apenas teria que se manter ao longo da semana). Aqui fica então o meu. Neste momento estou a usar um caderno muito pequeno (10x15 cm), mas como decidi acabá-lo antes de começar outro, foi este mesmo que usei. Foi um exercício divertido, que não levou mais de 10 minutos cada dia, até porque o espaço a preencher era tão pequeno. Confesso que no início achei que o resultado ia ser um bocado monótono, porque ilustrar o que se faz exactamente à mesma hora todos os dias iria inevitavelmente reflectir uma certa rotina, com repetição de tarefas. Mas quando cheguei ao fim fiquei surpreendida ao descobrir que afinal a rotina não é assim tão grande - apenas por duas vezes eu estava a fazer coisas semelhantes - e que há uma boa proporção de actividade ao ar livre. Vistas bem as coisas, este foi um belo desafio.
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Last week's Inspire Me Thursday Weekly Prompt was to divide up a journal page into seven sections and for the next seven days, document what exactly we were doing at 7:11 each day (morning or evening was up to us, but we should keep it consistent throughout the week). So here's mine. I'm currently using a very tiny journal (10x15 cm), actually, it is more a notebook, but decided to finish it before I start a new one. It was a fun exercise, that didn't take more than 10 minutes each day, for the space to fill in was so small. I confess at first I thought it would turn out a bit dull, for journaling at exactly the same hour every day would innevitably lead to a dull repetition of a same routine. But in the end, I was surprised to find out there isn't a real routine - only twice was I doing similar things - and that there's a good share of outdoors activities in green settings. All in all, this was a great prompt.
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