finally some action!

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Tis the Season

After school art lessons:
Tori, Alexis and Jace made clay snowmen in assorted fashion colors. Jace was just a little hesitant to get right up there between the girls. That'll change in a few years won't it?

Autobiographical drawings

Real experiences are great fun. Took Andrea to the airport in a horrendous blizzard one year. Spent the rest of the day holed up in a hotel. Everything in the city was shut down. My sketches made good reference material for the perspective piece. Note the polka dots on the curtains. The buildings across the street have now been cleared away for redevelopment projects.

From Another Perspective - the Common Element

I know the suspense must be killing you (kidding). The common element in the perspectives is orange balls. I love the shape, texture and flavor of oranges. Most of these pieces were done during winters. I must have been craving vitamin C. It started with orange trees, then orange balls in the neighborhood piece, morphed itself into Chihuly glass works in the Seattle piece, then showed up as polka dots on curtains, etc. On the newest piece it's the balls atop the brick wall. It keeps the viewer discovering.

Latest Project for High School kids

The area's Coalition of Churches asked if we'd be interested in helping with a Nativity scene they plan to put up this year. It's been a great project because we've taken it from the idea stage through completion. Kids have learned about design (we combined several nativity ideas) proportion, overlapping, color theory and all the stuff in between. It took about 3 weeks, and three bags of candybars. Congratulations on a job well done girls!

FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE #2

That is a good guess Brit', but there's another common element I have in mind. Here are two more perspectives. Hint: it has to do with color.

For you west coasters, perhaps you'll recognize all the fun spots in Seattle rolled into one on the top perspective.

The bottom is based on memories from the Wasatch front neighborhood I grew up in during grade school. I was trying to depict that 45 minutes or so around sunset when some kids are called home, but others are still out playing.

FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE...

From another perspective, featuring other projects demonstrating how to employ the horizon line and vanishing points. They're a little warped because of my camera angle, but you get the idea. Spot the common element yet?

The top was the first I ever did as a teacher. The Hamblin Hotel reflects the situation at home with several teenagers. And the second was after moving over to LHS and the kids were in various stages of leaving home so it's a bit autobiographical.