Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter


Easter (Old English: Ēostre; Greek: Πάσχα, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא‎ Pasḥa; from Hebrew: פֶּסַח‎ Pesaḥ) is a Christian feast and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. The festival is referred to in English by a variety of different names including Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day and Resurrection Sunday.
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is not necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefore varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March corresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian calendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. In many languages, the words for "Easter" and "Passover" are etymologically related or homonymous. Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but attending sunrise services, clipping the church and decorating Easter eggs, a symbol of the empty tomb, are common motifs. Customs such as egg hunting, the Easter Bunny, and Easter parades are observed by both Christians and non-Christians.


Friday, March 2, 2012

Drawing

   DRAWING is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inkedbrushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who practices or work in drawing may be called adraughtsman or draftsman.
 A small amount of material is released into the two dimensional medium, leaving a visible mark. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawing may be made on ablackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. The relatively easy availability of basic drawing instruments makes drawing more universal than most other media. 





                                                                                By AGAPI GEVORGIAN

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

FLOWERS

 Flowers



To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.



To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.




There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.



Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.



A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. 

Monday, February 13, 2012

HaPPy Valentin's Day!


PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing.

Saturday, February 11, 2012