Karen B. Jones's Blog
May 31, 2012
I made this pie yesterday. Here’s a picture and the recipe.
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup instant tapioca
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. almond extract
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 cups blueberries
1 double pie crust
1/4 cup or so of water
1 egg, beaten
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Mix first 5 ingredients in large bowl.
Add berries and toss until coated.
Let mixture sit 10-15 minutes.
If your bottom pie crust isn’t already in the pie pan, do that now.
Pre-bake the bottom crust for 5 minutes.
Fill crust with berry mixture.
Brush edge of crust with water to soften.
Position top crust and crimp edges with fork.
Trim excess crust.
Cut vent holes in top crust.
Brush top crust with egg.
Sprinkle sugar over top crust. (cinnamon / sugar mixture can be substituted)
Cover crust edges with foil or crust guard.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Remove crust guard and bake an additional 10 minutes.
Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving.
Filed under: Personal, Recipes Tagged: blueberry pie recipe
May 30, 2012
A baby’s hand making the devil horns gesture.
Filed under: Graphic Design, Images, T-Shirts, Mugs, and Other Novelties Tagged: devil horns, gesture, hand, metalhead, rock baby, t-shirt design
May 29, 2012
Here’s a free coloring sheet. Just click on the picture to get to the full-size version.
You are free to print out and photocopy this image for use as coloring pages at home or in a classroom. They are not available for any other use without my express, written consent. Please do not modify the file, post it online, or remove or modify my copyright notice. Thank you. :)
Filed under: Children's Illustrations, Freebies, Images, Website Tagged: coloring page, drawing, flower painting, for kids, free, freebie, joke, paint brush, paint palette, print-out, printable, pun, silly
May 25, 2012
Last week the thought occurred to me, “Hey, I wonder if there are any local artists groups around here?” I live in the Kansas City Metro Area, specifically Olathe, KS. While that isn’t a metropolis on the scale of New York or Chicago, that’s still a decent-sized community. There are art galleries, an art school, art courses at all the community colleges, and the local SCBWI group meets in the area. There are artists here, so I wondered if there were any groups for us.
So, I did what anyone does in this day and age. I Googled it. And, to my surprise, not only was there an Olathe Visual Artists Association, but it met every fourth Thursday at a church just a block away from my house. I can literally ride my bike there in 10 minutes. There aren’t even any big hills between here and there.
I figured if the universe was conspiring to make it that easy for me, I really should show up and see what sort of group it is.
Last night was the meeting. I printed off some of my recent work, stuck it in a portfolio, and rode my bike right over there. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I’d never find out if I didn’t show up.
They were primarily discussing the upcoming 2012 Downtown Olathe Arts Festival which will be June 9th and 10th this year. That’s two weeks from now. They were discussing who was going to be in which tents (Don’t put a photographer in the same tent as a painter!), when to show up, what prizes to offer for second and third prize, how much to pay for a judge, and all that. I’m afraid I wasn’t paying close attention to it all for the simple reason that, because the event was coming up so soon, I sensibly assumed that it was too late for me to participate in it. I was mostly trying to figure out what the group was.
Then they asked if I wanted to participate. It was too late for an unaffiliated artist to get space at the festival, but the group already had 4 tents and were a little short on artists to fill them. My artistic genre was definitely different than everyone else, but they thought that some of them might sell as prints for kids’ rooms.
They gave me the name and contact info for someone to contact to make prints relatively inexpensively (about $5 for an 8 by 10 from EPG Imaging) and where to get the plastic sleeves to sell them in if I’m not going to frame them (Coldsnows). Everything I need to know.
So, now I have to decide if I want to participate in an art fair in two weeks. I’ll have to pay for prints and $40 to join the OVA group. I’ll have to spend the whole weekend at the booth, but I’ll get local exposure and maybe a few sales. I can always bring my promo postcards and fill out addresses to pass the time.
It does seem oddly like the stars have aligned to set this series of events in motion.
What do you all think? Should I take advantage of the opportunity?
Filed under: Art, Art Fairs, Artists Groups, Downtown Olathe Art Festival, Olathe Visual Artists Association, Selling Stuff Tagged: art fair, artists group, coincidence, Downtown Olathe Art Festival, kansas, KS, Olathe, Olathe Visual Artists Association, opportunity
May 24, 2012
And here’s the end result. I’ll set it aside for a week or so and look at it again once the newness wears off and make any changes it needs. Then I’ll send it off. :)
Filed under: Children's Illustrations, Images, Magazine Illustrations / Spots Tagged: bunny, fable, for kids, grass, hare, hidden picture, ladybug, pears, rabbit, race, tortoise, tree, turtle
May 23, 2012
Can you find the hidden objects?
envelope, light bulb, crayon, ruler, book, tennis ball, lollipop
Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: bird house, black and white, fable, fence, for kids, gate, grass, hare, hidden picture, ladybug, line drawing, rabbit, tortoise, tree, turtle, wip, work in progress
May 22, 2012
Filed under: Children's Illustrations, Images, Magazine Illustrations / Spots, Sketches, Work in Progress Tagged: drawing, fable, hare, illustration, image, rabbit, race, sketch, tortoise, turtle, wip, work in progress
