As the cold weather continues, bats and small birds sometimes come in when the door is opened. Today, a small bird that looked like a sparrow came in through the crack in the door. It flies excitedly from room to room, and after flapping its wings several times, it flies through the open door.
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Recently, my students started drawing wild birds, and seeing the little birds flying here and there makes me understand what it means to draw birds.

Below are wild birds drawn by two of my talented students, Elbert and Audria.

Songbirds Elbert(L) and Audria(R)

​Children like to draw fish and birds. In particular, every child wants to draw birds. Above all, I discovered that children are better than anyone else at capturing the movements and characteristics of birds and the atmosphere that comes from them.

​First of all, since the birds do not stay in one place for a long time, you need to practice drawing them quickly. To do this, you need to practice drawing them quickly.

It is necessary to practice quickly and roughly describing stones, shoes, or any other object rather than drawing details.

​And as shown above, if you know the names and details of each bird's parts, drawing birds becomes easier.

​Today's experience makes me think that I should draw as many colors and species of birds as possible.

My First Book Making Adventure, produced as one of the low contents books among Amazon KDP publishing, was successfully released. Unlike general picture books, from personal experience, I feel that low contents books take a long time to review. I had to wait a few weeks for this review. And finally, I received a message today saying that Paperback was successfully published.

This book was created in an activity book format by gathering the necessary information when I made a picture book making camp with children last year. While teaching picture book making at camp, I discovered that children had difficulty with plotting, establishing characters, and creating stories. And I wish I had an exercise book to teach my students the elements of the story.

Above all, storytelling is a crucial element in visualizing any narration. This is important information not only for children but for everyone. It is a compound word of story + telling and literally means to tell a story. In other words, it is the act of persuasively conveying what you want to convey to the other person through an interesting and vivid story.

Storytelling techniques to convey key messages use the method of structuring and solving problems through main stories and scenarios. Through storytelling, people can easily picture various situations in their minds.
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In particular, I hope that through this book, children will be able to easily create their own stories, write books, and gain confidence by finishing with an author page at the end.
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​This activity book consists of the following contents:

When did humans start drawing? Art history books always start with the Altamira and Lascaux cave paintings.

The Altamira cave paintings are murals discovered in caves in the Santander region in northern Spain. Among the paintings spread across several caves, some are 40,000 years old. The Lascaux cave paintings were discovered in a cave near the town of Montignac in southwestern France. It is believed to have been painted between 17,000 and 19,000 years ago.

Altamira Cave (Spanish: cueva de Altamira) is a World Heritage Site in Spain. Literally translated, it means "high view." As a relic from the late Paleolithic era, the bones of wild animals and hand-drawn rock paintings of people are preserved intact.

​Primitive people drew images with charcoal, red clay, or hematite, or used natural dyes to paint. Moreover, because the light and shade techniques are revealed, three-dimensional images appear in some shapes. The most famous feature is the multi-colored ceiling, which depicts two horses, a moose, and a boar.

​The first people to use color in drawing were the people who created cave paintings during the Paleolithic Age, about 15,000 years ago. The first natural paints used by mankind at that time were yellow earth (ochre), red earth (ochre), white chalk, and carbon black (Lamp Black) made by burning the fat of hunted animals.

The Cave of Lascaux murals painted between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago in the Montignac region of the Dordogne in southern France.

​Magura cave is located in northwestern Bulgaria, a 17 km de Belogradchik, in the limestone mound "Rabishka Moguila" (461 meters above sea level). It is one of the largest and most beautiful caves in Europe.

The Magura cave paintings in Europe are the oldest in Europe at 42,000 years old and are also the most important cave paintings in the entire Balkan Peninsula. Peninsula according to conservation status and complexity. This region of Bulgaria is also cited as the birthplace of the Aurignacian culture, which later spread to the rest of Europe and what could be classified as the world's first pre-pagan religion.
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Reference: ​https://blog.naver.com/ohyh45/20148193086

My local gallery, Mills pond Gallery, holds a showcase for its members every year. In this showcase, my work, My Dream Garden, was selected as the winner.

The four artists selected as winners will hold a winners' exhibition next year. I am very excited to be able to prepare for next year's exhibition.

​With this, I have become an award-winning artist in all my local galleries. My challenge will continue.

On the main page of my official website, annakoh.com, I use an RSS gadget called FeedWind to update my blog posts and information in real time. This function can be easily done by using the embed function in Weebly. However, often I see a message like the one below and my feed freezes or becomes invisible for a while. As a user, I am embarrassed, but there is a reason as below.
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A 502 Bad Gateway message indicates that one server received an invalid response from another server. Essentially, you're connected to some kind of temporary device (e.g. an edge server) that needs to get all the bits needed to load the page. A problem has occurred with that process and the message indicates the problem.

A 502 Bad Gateway error is an HTTP status code that indicates that a server acting as a gateway or proxy received an invalid response from an upstream server. In other words, the server that is serving as a gateway between your web browser and the website's server encountered an issue while trying to fulfill the request.
The 502 Bad Gateway error can occur for various reasons, including:
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1. Server Downtime: The upstream server (the one that your gateway or proxy is trying to connect to) may be temporarily unavailable or experiencing issues.
2. Network Issues: There may be network problems between the gateway/proxy server and the upstream server, causing the communication to fail.
3. Overloaded Server: The upstream server might be overloaded with requests and unable to handle the current load, leading to a failure in processing requests.
4. Configuration Issues: There could be misconfigurations in the server setup, proxy settings, or other network configurations.
5. DNS Issues: Problems with DNS (Domain Name System) resolution could also lead to a 502 Bad Gateway error.
   
   

When you encounter a 502 Bad Gateway error, it is typically a temporary issue, and it's advisable to try refreshing the page after a short period. If the issue persists, it may be worth contacting the website administrator or your network administrator to investigate and resolve the problem.

​This is only temporary and will come back, but hopefully this won't happen often.