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The funny photography books of Clare Barnes Jnr.

Today we look at two books of animals and birds with funny captions, published by American advertising art director, Clarence Barnes Jnr, in 1949. Image: Julie's photo

Symbols and Words

The Charm of Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, often with seemingly bizarre connections to the groups they identify.Why are lions in a pride? Are crows really murderous? Have you ever stopped to wonder where these peculiar terms came from? Image: wordpress.com

Celebration

The AnArt4Life Blog Turns 3.001 Today

Continuing on from yesterday as we celebrate the AnArt4Life blog's 3rd birthday. Today you will see some of Julie's past posts and Anne will conclude the celebration. Thank you to all our subscribers who have made this day possible.

Illustrations

Connecting with nature

Introducing you to the "story catcher" and illustrator Trace Balla who connects with nature early in the morning, and records in pencil tiny details, right down to the calls made by the birds. Connecting with community and country. Image: Trace Balla, Facebook.

Celebration

Wishing You - Happy World Emoiji Day from the AnArt4Life Blog Team

Click off if you hate emoijis as TODAY IS WORLD EMOIJI DAY. This post is dedicated to everyone around the world who loves to communicate using tiny characters. Don't run- embrace and have a bit of fun.

Animals

The Owl and the Pussycat II

The Owl and the Pussycat was written by Edward Lear (1812–1888) an illustrator, natural history artist, and writer, best known for his nonsense poems. A Book of Nonsense, was published in 1846 and helped to popularize the limerick, a humorous form of verse. Photo credit: sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au

Bees

Bees in Verse

For something different yet still celebrating the "bees in our lives" we thought some poetry by Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Picasso, Norman Rowland Gale. Images by Marchenko Tatyana Mikhailovna, Jani Freimann, Pablo Picasso, Samantha Peers.

Symbols and Words

The FBI is after Winnie the Pooh! Is he in trouble with the law?

Remembering Winnie the Pooh, the creation of A A Milne and drawn by E H Shepherd.

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Bruce Worden's Art with Words

Learning more about the art of Homophones, homographs, homonyms through Bruce Worden and his book "Homophones Visualized". Plus a scone recipe from the Commonsense Cookery Book compiled by the N.S.W. Public School Cookery Teachers' Association ( Angus and Robertson 1914).

Women Artists

Anne Wienholt 1920-2018: Art Was Her Life

Australian artist Anne Wienholt leads us into learning about The Merioola Group, Mitty Lee Brown, Stanley William Hayter, Masato Takashige. Anne created in paintings, drawings, ceramics and bronzes.

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Rumination and Contemplation

Ibrahim Khudeira Pablo Picasso and after much consideration have chosen Girl Before a Mirror

Symbols and Words

Books and Bears in Our Lives

Pooh Bear deserves to get some attention as we wander down memory lane with Alice. And of course Winnie the Pooh would not exist without the creative mind of A.A. Milne (1882–1956) and his illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard

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