J.R. Johnson

It’s cold here today and I mentioned to my mother that we had condensation on the windows.

Now, you should know that my mother is very artistic and has an arts and languages background. She’s been to the creativity wars, you know?

Here’s what she said:

Great advice, right? And while I didn’t have enough condensation to draw anything real (and oh right, I can’t draw anyway, see above lopsided grimace for proof), the important thing is that I didn’t stop there. 

I woke up thinking about Impressionist art (as one does) so I decided to try my hand at computer aided pointillism using this tutorial.* Here’s the result.

Thanks, Mom!

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* I also learned that Mary Cassatt, one of the “three great ladies” of Impressionism and an artist who focused much of her work on the social and domestic lives of women (subjects often ignored by male artists), was from Pennsylvania.