Jo-with-it's Portfolio: June 2009

June 19, 2009

Two Girls Reading in the Garden

1890 ~ Oil on canvas

Private Collection

Pierre Auguste Renoir

June 18, 2009

In The Meadow

In The Meadow (Picking Flowers)

1890 ~ Oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pierre-Augute Renoir

June 15, 2009

Ornamental Ispirations

I've started another blog! Go ahead and check it out.

Ornamental Inspirations

Also, does anyone have suggestions for backgrounds or things I should add to it? It looks kinda plain to me. Or how about a different name? I'm quite open to suggestions. I would also enjoy having more authors...is anyone interested?

Somewhere over the rainbow

Here are the rules: Put your iTunes or iPod on shuffle. Put the name of each song in as an answer to the following questions: I used the iPod my brother and I share.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "THIS IS OKAY" YOU SAY:

Spider Man 2 Main Title (huh?)
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

Breath
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

Davy Jones (this really isn't fair!) How come we're not allowed to skip??!!
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Let the tournament begin
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

Heal our Land
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Kung Fu Fighting (By the way, I DO NOT like this song :) )
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

Zoosters Breakout
WHAT IS 2+2?

Standing the Storm
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Sonata for Piano No. 11 in A major
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A PERSON YOU LIKE?

Andante
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Peace in the Valley
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Into the Pie machine
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE A PERSON YOU LIKE?

Remy's Revenge
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

Beethoven 6 Pastoral Mov 3
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Discovery (I don't think so!)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Bunnies
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTERESTS?

The Brethren Court
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

New and Improved
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Our way is getting brighter
WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?

Singin' In The Rain
HOW WILL YOU DIE?

Two hornpipes :)
WHAT'S THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?

Saving Metroville
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

Song for the Nations
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?

Return with Honor
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?

Allegro 3 by Mozart
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?

Speed of Sound (I don't like this song either)
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?

Within
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

Battle at Aslan's How
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?

Through the Dark
WHAT DO YOU MOST OFTEN EXCLAIM?

Rock of Ages
WHERE IS PARADISE?

What a Friend we have in Jesus
WHAT DID YOU FIRST SAY AS A BABY?

Suite Dreams
IF YOU HAD A PET, WHAT WOULD YOU NAME IT?

Welcome to Gusteau's
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SIGHT TO SEE?

So!
WHAT MAKES YOU GAG?

Awakening
WHAT ARE YOU BEST AT?

Never on Sunday
IF YOU WROTE A BOOK, WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT?

Building the Crate
WHAT DID YOU WISH FOR LAST?

The Old Rugged Cross
WHAT WOULD YOUR SUPERHERO NAME BE?

Aggressive Expansion (Don't like the song, never saw the movie)
HOW SOON WILL THIS BE OVER?

God leads us along
WHERE ARE YOU SITTING?

The Tempest
WHAT DO YOU MOST HATE?

Greensleeves
WHAT DO YOU MOST LOVE?

Page 47 (Isn't this song amazing?!)
WHAT DO YOU NOT CARE ABOUT?

Behind the Clouds
WHAT IS YOUR SECRET NAME?

Out of it all ( how ironic. I'm called Jo- WITH-IT, not out of it. )
WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?

Somewhere over the rainbow

Oh come on! I didn't even get any funny ones! Oh well.

June 14, 2009

A Yoyo Project

*Happy sigh* After a lovely day, and lovely grad party I'm ready to post! Rachel asked what I was going to do with the yoyos, so here is one of my projects. Another skirt! I used letter E from Simplicity's pattern 5914. I also used this pattern for this skirt. Enjoy the pictures and be inspired!

June 13, 2009

The Crystal Ball

1902 ~ Oil on canvas

Private Collection

John William Waterhouse

"Art detective work has uncovered the hidden secret of a £350,000 painting after it was "doctored" in the early 1950s. "The Crystal Ball" by John William Waterhouse RA (1849-1917) shows a young model in a red dress gazing into the ball, apparently weaving a spell with the aid of a book and a skull. It was shown alongside a more spiritual picture by the artist at the Royal Academy in 1902. The study later entered the Pyman collection and eventually hung in the dining room at Glenborrodale Castle, Highland.

The painting was sold with the castle when the property changed hands in 1952-3. But the new owner did not like the skull and had it covered by curtains. The picture was later sold and it will be auctioned again at Christies, London, on Friday. It came into the auction room in its amended state.

But when Martin Beisly, head of the Victorian picture department, and his team began to research its background they came across photographs of the original in The Art Journal, 1909. An X-ray of the picture showed the skull still there.

A pigment analysis demonstrated that the original surface was still protected with a

layer of varnish which meant the addition could be removed safely. The picture would clean up "quite beautifully", Mr Beisly said."

Quote from Johnwaterhouse.com

June 11, 2009

Monograming...sort of

My brother and I recently got matching flashlights. So what better way to tell them apart than personalize them? I got out our embroidery floss and our engraver thingy and went to work. What do you think?