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Another Timeless Calendar {Old Calendar turned into An Art Journal}

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ~Georgia O'Keeffe Last year, I posted an old calendar I turned into a scrapbook .  Prior to that, TC was already using another old desktop calendar from 2003 as her art journal.  Here's just some of her entries. This is a page from the calendar itself.  Gorgeous work by Monet. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp  But why would she want to run away from home? Maybe from her sometimes annoying sibs? =.) Painting is silent poetry. ~Plutarch, Moralia  Collage: Found objects from her desk  She saved some of her Giants tickets from her dates with her Daddy.  Collage: What she learned in church  Pastel (such a messy medium) Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat developed the technique in 18