Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Introduction to My Mechanical drawing
While I am waiting for my T-square, protractor, triangles and other equipment to arrive for all that I will need to draw my interpretations of this art form. I was thinking of writing short lessons, or one may call them study guides pertaining to this subject. I bought a mechanical drawing textbook a long time ago when I first thought of this idea, but other things came along.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Art
More Color Art
All of the following 'Color Arts' that I am planning to exhibit here are from an adult coloring book and I completed these using just the medium of crayons and using the various shades and hues of those colors with at times trying to use some shading and blending skills.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Art
The Mission Part 13
Sarge laid there in his bed next to his wife and his knew what to do and let him tell the story again. Why is always at the same place the Beta Team has entered the small town where we walk as a team doing a standard recon mission when all of a sudden, we scatter to various buildings to see where the shots are coming from then for some reason just stops for what could be snow or it could have been a sandstorm, but why does it turn everything white though. His wife just looks at him and tells him that she thinks that he needs to go to group and share this and maybe one of the other Beta Team members may have the answer that he is looking for why can he not remember what happened after the sniper shots.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
The Mission Part 12
As the soldiers were still searching for where and who was shooting the soldiers noticed that there seemed to be snowflakes falling from the sky for, they knew that it did sometimes fall in the desert, but it is still October even though there seemed to a chill now and again, but still not enough a chill to snow and turn everything white. Beta Team just stared for the Sarge of the team and all around him seemed to be fading. Sarge awoke in his bed on a cold October morning next to his wife. He awoke startled and wondered.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
More Color Art
All of the following 'Color Arts' that I am planning to exhibit here are from an adult coloring book and I completed these using just the medium of crayons and using the various shades and hues of those colors with at times trying to use some shading and blending skills.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Art
Texas!
It has been a while since I wrote a critique essay on a Dana Fuller Ross novel. The last one was 'Oregon' and now this one is for 'Texas' the fifth in the series. This is the story of how the state of Texas became part of the Union. It does continue the story of Cathy and Lee Blake and Chet and Danny who are best friends ever since the first wagon train to Oregon. 'Texas' is a novel that to me covers the history of Texas and the Mexican War with Santa Ana, the president of Mexico in a creative and interesting way but does not go into too much detail of the war for it is started and ends at the end of the book. This is a novel on how this history affected the various characters in their personal and professional lives in helping to grow the United States.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Grimm's Fairy Tale#5
In reading 'Little Snow White' in Grimm's Fairy Tales one will get a sense that it is two stories in one for I got a sense of The Three Bears story as well when Snow White entered the dwarf's cottage she performs some activities as if she were Goldilocks and for the dwarfs they speak a few lines that to me seem reminiscent of the Three Bears story. This version as it seems to be is quite different from the Disney version that we all seem to like to watch at times.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm's tales lessons learned peculiar.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
Grimm's Fairy Tales #4
Here is a Grimm Fairy Tale that I did not know about or even heard of entitled 'The Straw, The Coal and the Bean'. This is a very short one but is really quite descriptive. It is a tale of three odd friends working together to achieve a goal of some kind. Even though the straw still burns and the coal fizzles out and the bean splits. At least they tried for a little while to survive living. It is also a tale on how we see beans now-a-days with a black seam. To me this is an unusual tale on how to get children to eat their vegetables maybe.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
The Superhero Spider
In the foggy woods is the place where an unlikely superhero lives who just happens to be a spider. One night when the spider came out of where he lives to make a web between two small branches he starts to twitch. When this spider twitches, he slowly starts to change into something quite miraculous for this spider has artistic talents. This spider is an artistic superhero for he can design various intricate pictures in his webs. He is twitching and as he works on the web, he forms a cross and as he crosses his legs saying his prayers.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
