http://complicatedoctopus.com More complicated than your regular octopus... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:19:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sangha I by Kristin Serafini 17 October 2007 acrylic and pencil on gallery canvas 60" x 15" http://complicatedoctopus.com/2008/03/21/sangha-i/ Resurrection Breakfast by Kristin Serafini acrylic and pencil on gallery canvas 60" x 30" http://complicatedoctopus.com/2007/10/18/resurrection-breakfast/ Danaus plexippus by Kristin Serafini 30 September 2007 acrylic and pencil on canvas 16″ x 20" plus frame http://complicatedoctopus.com/2007/09/30/42/ I did this page on 23-25 September 2005. I don't often copy the work of the masters, or even directly reference them, but this darling Dürer caught my eye. Something about her seemed very familiar. Almost like I had met her before. I was enticed by ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2006/11/02/jeune-femme-surreal/ Bad blogger!! Where have I been all this time? Umm...would an illustrated play about Mozart be a good enough excuse for 9 months of radio silence? On 6 October 2005, I went out to dinner with John Sant’Ambrogio at a little Chinese place in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2006/07/01/kidnapped-by-mozart/ What made journaling an indespensible part of my artistic life? Teaching journaling to the next generation. After journaling off and on through high school and college, I came back to it seriously and consistently in January 2002. That's when I got to teach writing on the ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2006/02/03/self-portrait/ So how cool is this?! I just designed custom real U.S. postage - Complicated Octopus style! Now our favorite scribbling cephalopod can accompany your precious postcard, letter or package as it flies across the country in search of a lucky recipient. (Hopefully the person to whom it ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2005/10/05/octopus-gear/ (For best blog-enjoyment results, press this iTunes button and purchase the Cavatina for a mere 99¢ & listen to it while reading this wonderfully long post.) I spent 3 weeks (21 August - 11 September 2005) teaching journaling and children's literature at Arts For The Soul in Steamboat Springs, ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2005/09/26/beethovens-cavatina/ Today's Complicated Octopus Fact comes to us from Answers.com. "A note on the plural form: Fowler's Modern English Usage states that 'the only acceptable plural in English is octopuses', and that octopi is misconceived and octopodes pedantic. Octopi derives from the mistaken notion that octopus is Latin. ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2005/09/25/squirrelly-plurals-octopuses-or-octopi-2/ I sometimes get asked how I handle situations where there's something I need to write in my journal but I don't want anyone else to read it. This spread is an example of one response to that question. I started by writing a 4 page email to a ... http://complicatedoctopus.com/2005/09/24/shredded-letter/