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Hi Everyone  Have not written anything for ages have been in bit of a downer as I suffer from Fibromyalgia. But I am back, was talking to my daughter the other day about Coca cola and how the taste is right off the mark. I am 65 and when I was 15 and started to drink coke it was the best drink ever the taste was like nothing. So looked up the History and these are some of the facts about this drink.  Coke began in 1886 when the curiosity of an Atlanta pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton, led him to create a distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold at soda fountains. He created a flavored syrup, took it to his neighborhood pharmacy, where it was mixed with carbonated water and deemed “excellent” by those who sampled it.  Dr. Pemberton’s partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, is credited with naming the beverage “Coca‑Cola” as well as designing the trademarked, distinct script, still used today.    When launched,  Coca - Cola's  two key i...

Hi,  to all of you that are interested in artist and their works of art, have been busy but have not disappeared tho.  Judith Jans Leyster was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in July 1609, the eighth child of nine. Art historians think that Judith Leyster was trained in painting from a young age  perhaps studying with Frans Pietersz de Grebber, a well-respected Haarlem-based painter.  Her mother, Trijn Jaspers, was a weaver, and her father was a brewer who was born as Jan Willemsz but changed it to    "Leyster," in 1603 In 1629, Leyster's first known paintings,  Serenade  and  Jolly Topper , are signed with her very particular monogram: JL accompanied by a star, suggesting the meaning of her name.  In 1633, Leyster applied to join Haarlem's Guild of St. Luke's, an organisation for painters at the beginning of their careers. She was accepted into the guild and in that same year set up her own studio. "Though it is dange...

Right now I am watching a mover called Maude. It's about a folk artist born with a disability who painted. She married and was becoming recognized in the folk art industry. Her and her husband lived in a small cottage in Nova Scotia. Maud Kathleen Lewis  March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970)   Living in pove rty with her husband in a small house in  Marshalltown, Nova Scotia , most of her life, she achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965. Several books, plays and films have since been produced about her. Lewis remains one of Canada's best-known folk artists. Her works and the restored Maud Lewis House are displayed in the  Art Gallery of Nova Scotia . Dowley was born with birth defects and came to develop  rheumatoid arthritis , which reduced her mobility, especially in her hands. Dowley was introduced to art by her mother, who instructed her in the making of watercolour Christmas cards to sell. She began her artistic career by selling hand-drawn and pa...

Hi every one,  hope you are having a fantastic Saturday today we are looking at another female Austrailian artist and that is Joy St Clair Hester born on the 21st of August 1920 died on the 4th Decenber 1960. Hester was a member of the Angry Penguins who played aa vert important job in the development of Austalian modernism. Elsternwick was where Hester was born and she went to school from and early age to studied art. from 1933 to 1937 she was at st Michael's Gramma. Hester, after 1937 was excepted into Brighton Technical School to studied Commercial Art at Brighton. Also in 1937 Hester met Albert Tucker, whom she started to live  with in '38 then in 1941 she married Tucker at East Melbourne. Hester  worked along side with Nolan, Blackman, Boyd, perceval, and Hope. Hester was a great help in establishing the Contemporary Art Society and was the only female painter in the modernist movement. Hester has a son, Sweeney Reed 1944 -1979 while married to Tucker. I...

I have been blogging for a while, just some times I get a little slack. Thats because I am doing it for myself, to be inspired from other artist and it helps me conjure up some thing in my head, then lay it down on paper, canvas or may be in a journal. I never copy, all my arts comes from me, my creativity and my heart. It such a buzz for me to see something I am painting and watch it come to life. Today I am going to promote me for a change. Some times I dont have the confidence in my art. I will leave it up to you as all people have their own likes and dislike. I had forgotton how much I did when I was a child it had vanished from me while I was busy with family. It wasnt untill I started an art course in a community centre that I realised how much I missed my art. You dont think you are any good till you try. It was some time after the centre that I decided to studied a Diploma of Visual arts at Swinburne, and havent stopped. Before that I studied Photography B&W plus dark room...