http://www.mswest.com/blog ::: By Hand and On Foot ::: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:07:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Drithelm was just your average Northumbrian guy, until he died and came back to life. Thereafter, he split his earthly goods into three lots, one for his family, one for his children, and one for the poor, and became a monk. He shared his vision of the afterlife ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=720 Here's another print from the etching class I took this spring at Cabrillo College. It's called Icarus Over the Boardwalk. Icarus was the son of Daedalus, a gifted Athenian craftsman and inventor of the labyrinth used to imprison the Minotaur. Daedalus himself was imprisoned on Crete by King Minos ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=697 On Monday I wended my way north to Oakland, my old stomping grounds, to hang a new show at Creative Framing & Gallery. I've known owner Heather Piazza for a few years now, first through the Frank Bette Center in Alameda, and then through Four Oceans Press, an independent ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=685 This past spring I took a most excellent etching and aquatint class at Cabrillo College. Now I'm finally getting around to scanning and framing some of the work I did. Here's the first scan: This is "Bob", with our feline friend Bob posing on his favorite perch in the ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=677 Judoc, also known as Josse, was the son of a Breton king. There doesn't seem to be much of a record of his life or doings, except for his taking a pilgrimage to Rome at some point in his life, after which he renounced power and fortune and retired ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=668 Saint Christina the Astonishing, also known as Saint Christina Mirabilis, died at a young age, and then, astonishingly, came to life again in the midst of her funeral mass. She immediately floated to the ceiling of the cathedral, to escape the stench of sin that emanated from the congregation. She was not ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=647 I took an early-morning hike in The Forest of Nisene Marks today. It was lovely, cool, mostly foggy, not many people. Banks and banks of sweet peas on an early portion of the trail. Not many hikers; lots of bikers and joggers. A spiderweb catches the light and the dew. A bee gathers ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=652 Sarah-Hope had a busy day a couple of weeks ago, flying back and forth to San Diego to pick up her nephew, who was shuttling from one set of grandparents to another. My job was to drop her off at one airport (San Jose) and pick her up at ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=611 I am usually an early riser, and consider a day unfit for hiking --or much of anything, for that matter-- if I'm up and about any later than 7am. The day's already half gone! Too late! But I think I'm still experiencing the mellowing effects of our day at ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=617 I time-traveled this past weekend, back to 16th century Scotland, as I participated in my first-ever Renaissance Festival as a vendor (in fact my first-ever festival of any sort). In some ways it was a good fit: a lot of my prints relate to that period. I displayed prints from ... http://www.mswest.com/blog/?p=604