Amy Bogard

Amy Bogard

  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland
Amy Bogard
  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland

character building

  • August 26, 2020
  • activism, character building, illustration, twist of hemp
  • american politics, badgers, flutilla, john joe badger, kevin Crawford
  • 4 comments

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::: TWIST of HEMP :::  Week 42. Hiya  friends.  Amy here, the creatrix of John Joe Badger.  It's a strange time to be drawing gentle, tuneful badgers.  There are so…

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  • August 19, 2020
  • character building, illustration, twist of hemp
  • backstitching, john joe badger, music, piping, play, uilleann piping
  • 0 comments

The mysterious ‘backstitch’

::: TWIST OF HEMP :::  Week 41 There are many mysteries in this thing we call piping.  John Joe Badger has heard whispers of a mysterious thing some call 'The…

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  • August 11, 2020
  • character building, illustration, music, twist of hemp, uillean piping
  • adult learner, john joe badger, mice, old dog new tricks, practice, uilleann pipes, upper octave
  • 0 comments

x’s and o’s (the upper octave)

::: Twist of Hemp :::  Week 40 This week, John Joe Badger is working diligently in the upper octave, experimenting with a variety of approaches to achieving these ephemeral notes.…

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  • July 14, 2020
  • activism, character building, illustration, In the Garden, twist of hemp
  • garden, garlic, john joe badger, kathryn tickell, swannanoa gathering
  • 1 Comment

Prickly territory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrMPCvQeH3A This evening I was walking the lone, remaining dog up the drive.  She doesn't care for a long walk really, being fully deaf and mostly blind, but she does…

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  • June 23, 2020
  • character building, music, twist of hemp
  • dog and pony show, john joe badger, Riley School of Irish Music
  • 4 comments

Dog and Pony Show

Since the beginning of the era in which we found ourselves in a state of lockdown and isolation, a few of us faithful session-goers loosely affiliated with the Riley School…

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  • May 27, 2020
  • character building, illustration, twist of hemp
  • john joe badger, uilleann piping
  • 0 comments

On Feeling Small

:::  TWIST OF HEMP ~  Week 29  ::: In this brave new world of zooming here and there and everywhere, we are confronted with the giants among us, musically and…

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  • April 28, 2020
  • character building, illustration, twist of hemp
  • cleansing, john joe badger, making space
  • 0 comments

Making space

::: Twist of Hemp Week 25 ::: Occasionally, between tunes over in the woodshed and foraging for food in the forest, a day must be taken to clear the decks…

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  • April 22, 2020
  • character building, children's literature, illustration, twist of hemp
  • corona coping skills, john joe badger
  • 0 comments

A list for better times

::: TWIST OF HEMP ~ Week 24 ::: These are hard days indeed.  Even the most solitary creatures miss their dearest friends more than words can say.  Each day a…

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  • March 9, 2020
  • character building, music, twist of hemp, uillean piping
  • growing, john joe badger, learning, mickey dunne pipes, twist of hemp, uillean pipes, week 18
  • 0 comments

Twist of Hemp Week 18

On Dreaming. Often times, one must simply make a commitment to something.  Sometimes these commitments are small, such as making one's bed each day,, eating more kale,  or promising to…

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  • February 18, 2020
  • character building, illustration, twist of hemp, uillean piping
  • john joe badger
  • 0 comments

For Sale (twist of hemp, wk 15)

As much as John Joe Badger loves his borrowed practice set, even with all of its idiosyncrasies (and don't all sets have their idiosyncrasies?), he's begun to consider the acquisition…

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Amy Bogard

  • Latest Works
    • Painting/Drawing
    • Travel Sketches
    • Illustration
    • John Joe Badger
    • Animal Alphabet
    • Mice, Etc.
    • Abstracts
    • 108 Project
    • Embroidery
    • Album Covers
  • Writing
  • About
  • Videos
  • Workshops/Travel
    • Taos NM
    • Antigua GT
    • The Myths of Ireland