"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s"

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s"

Americasmart July 2012

texture

white always works

"Uncle Jim" was here-

NEW THIRSTY BOYS

IN ADDITION TO:

happy house,what would julia do,happy wife happy life,close the lid boys.

kiss the cook, clean house trust God help others,live thankfully,

fairest of them all,say grace,bake more and share, put a cork in it....

                                                                                       

                                 A NOTE FROM MY MEMA-WHAT WOULD YOU FRAME?

POP OF COLOR ANYONE?

AVOID SOCIAL DEPORTMENT

MIND YOUR MANNERS

12 DIFFERENT REMINDERS YOUR MAMA ALWAYS SAID

try it you may like it,say grace,no reaching,

sit up straight,elbows off the table,

say please and thank you,take your dishes to the sink...

we just restored some beautiful boards from

Madison,Georgia.

the perfected greens and blues

Farmer's Market Basket, Small Square - Anthropologie.com

Farmer's Market Basket, Small Square - Anthropologie.com

NOW THIS INSPIRES ME-

about 30 in all-

about the artist-

Howard Handlen has been devoted to ‘line art’ since boyhood when he admired the techniques of the cartoonists who drew marvelous illustrations of nothing more than lines with pen and ink.  He especially liked the work of cartoonist Milton Caniff who drew a widely syndicated strip called Terry and the Pirates.  Handlen never drew cartoons, but he did like to draw portraits, first in pencil, and then ink; later on he took to drawing maps, emulating as much as he could, the look of classical mapmakers; still later he began to do architectural drawing and studied the work of the masters of that genre.  He was also greatly influenced by poster art.  He never had formal lessons and not until late middle age did something that was just fun to do become business. 

Howard Handlen was born and raised on Long Island, New York.  He had a classical education which had the practical effect of making him a professional writer.  For a time he lived in the West Indies and for fun he drew maps of various islands which his wife sold to shops and galleries.  He retired to Florida in the 1990s and again took up doing maps and architectural drawing, and so finally became a professional artist.  He continued to draw mostly islands, from the West Indies to the Bahamas, to Florida, and on up the east coast to Cape Cod.  Prints of his work have become widely admired.

Born on an island, Handlen presently lives on one in his old age: Jekyll Island, Georgia.