Category Archives: Art

Kelly’s toughest statistics class – done

Day 624 of 1000 There are plenty of hard classes in Kelly’s Statistics program at NCSU, but everyone believes Mathematical Statistics II is probably the hardest.  Kelly has been hammering away at this class since the beginning of the year … Continue reading

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More Kelly art–another watercolor of a friend

Guess who, again.

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More Kelly art–a watercolor of a friend

Guess who.

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Kelly will be FAMOUS–she will be published tomorrow

Remember this comic strip that Kelly drew.  It has been accepted for publication in North Carolina State University’s student newspaper, The Technician.  She is going to be famous!

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Kelly’s college experience so far: Helpful professors

Late in her toughest semester ever, Kelly draws a comic.  Late in his toughest semester ever, Christian comments on the comic on Facebook.

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Why not skip high school? (Part 7) Worldview preparation is essential

Day 585 of 1000 This is the fourth in a series of posts on the benefits of skipping high school and going straight to college.  The introductory post and index to all the other posts in the series is here. … Continue reading

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Web comic artist starts spring training

Day 570 of 1000 Kelly is starting to practice for her new daily comic strip.  You can see her old one here. Kelly will reconstitute her old blog at KellyJeanChapman.com to complement her comic strip.  We are not sure where … Continue reading

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Revisiting comics and other web stuff

Day 568 of 1000 I talked to my buddy Eric last night.  He described some very interesting ideas about the internet and blogging that has me thinking I might be able to improve my efforts.  He gave me some homework … Continue reading

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Fine art

Day 416 of 1000 This is a photograph of my nephew, Matias.  His father, Lorena’s brother, Lauro is a passionate artist.  Tom Layman, a good friend of Lorena’s family painted during his frequent overnight visits to their home.  Lorena believes … Continue reading

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Kelly trains for future cartooning

Kelly has been working on her portrait skills by sketching her friends. Really, she wants to cartoon, but she has such a heavy school load that she cannot work it in other than about one drawing per night and a … Continue reading

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They are studying hard now!!!

Here are Kelly’s multivariable calculus notes that she texted to me from her review class.

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Homeschool and why Stepan never asks “How are you doing?”

Day 106 of 1000 (214.1 lbs.) I have talked previously spoken about my buddy Stepan from Russia here and here.  Stepan has a family to whom he is very devoted.  He is very interested in assuring his two little girls … Continue reading

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Does anyone notice anything suspicious about this image

Day 103 of 1000 Lorena put some decorations on the dollhouse and got a little unsolicited “help”.

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We love community college

Day 102 of 1000 Lorena, Christian, and I made our way to the Community College last night to see the final performance and art show for the fine arts program.  Paintings, pencil drawings, charcoals, and sculptures were displayed outside the … Continue reading

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The North Carolina Art Museum Rembrandt Exhibit

Day 96 of 1000 Gladys, Lorena, and I went to the Rembrandt exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Hat tip:  Andrew).  I do not have time to go into any detail.  Just suffice it to say it was … Continue reading

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NCSU tuition increase causes serious hardship

Now that we found out NCSU is going to make dramatic tuition increases, Christian has decided he is going to make do with the equipment he had.  RWDub’s Reviews will be quite happy to know he uses Linux Mint on … Continue reading

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Christian’s Multivariable Calculus Notes

Christian takes very cool note in his Physics and Calculus classes. He invented his own font (with serif) and is good at illustrating complex things. Here is an example:

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