Month: October 2013

• Oh, Great Pumpkin, where are you?

  It is almost Halloween, my favorite holiday, and I was initially inspired to blog about my disappointment in the way that certain neighbors are improperly using spiderweb decorations around my neighborhood in Park Slope. I took a walk around this week to observe and shoot photos. I’m here to offer constructive criticism as well as kudos […]

  Nancy C. Sampson

  October 22, 2013

  creepy, decorations, gourds, halloween, jack-o-lanterns, Martha Stewart, Park Slope, scary, spider, spiderwebs, spooky

• Butterflies of the World

  

  A love of textiles and world culture inspired this series after a visit to New York City’s Natural History Museum. Each butterfly floats above an original photograph of its natural habitat and the borders represent textile patterns created by craftspeople or tribes native to the area. Butterfly: Scarlett Swallowtail; Habitat: Rain forest, coastal lowlands; Border: Ati Ahan festival […]

  Nancy C. Sampson

  October 9, 2013

  Digital Collage, Drawing, Flora & Fauna, Photography

  Africa, Asia, butterfly, culture, digital collage, environment, etsy, illustration, Mexico, Philippines, plants, textiles

• What being an artist means to me

  A shared post from Pikaland: What does being an artist mean to you? The organizer/instructor of the online class that I’m taking, Amy Ng, is very active on her blog, Pikaland, which is how I found out about the class in the first place. This week she asks readers, “What does being an artist mean […]

  Nancy C. Sampson

  October 1, 2013

  artistic process, creativity, Degas. art, illustration, PIkaland