Spring   

 Today's assignment: Make something come through something that appears to be solid - I thought of a water spring that finds it's way through a rock bluff, often originating several states away. Missouri has a lot of springs. They are always cool, damp places where the vegetation grows even in the hotest weather. So here's my interpretation of a spring.

Triangles   

 The prompt today was to work with triangular shapes. Living in an engineer's house means there are lots of triangles, all sizes, shapes, and a couple of colors! I used some op art paper I bought at the Crayola store last Monday in K.C.  for a background. I placed the whole thing on the light table to give it some pizzaz.

Bird

 Something that flies is the assignment - I constructed a bird with flapping wings, origami style. I've never been good at origami - too impatient to follow step by step instructions! You-tube sure helps. I may fold other things in the future. This little bird will move it's wings if you pull it's tail and chest - how cool is that?

I'm trying to catch up with posting. I am on track with the every day creative projects but not with getting them on the blog!

Postcard alteration

 Here was another "silly" project. I was to alter a postcard and send it to someone. First of all, I could not locate a postcard - the one I found first had a 6 cent postage marking....how old is that? Finally I found some advertising cards for photo-processing. I added stickers (since I am not really in the mood for spending much time on this!) The arid landscape got a couple of  "oasis" trees, and a gorilla (for Kyle.) The flowers got a butterfly and a sweet skunk (for Rebecca.) I will mail them tomorrow....project done!

Woodcut

Woodcut  

Today's assignment was to work with wood. I used to do more printmaking, so this was a nostalgic project. I began by attempting an image of a raccoon, but was working way too small for the hardness of the wood. So, taking the grain as a cue, I found the face of an troll-like character. I am pretty happy with the results. As I work through these assignments, I am more and more aware that perhaps painting is not my best medium. I'm always rather tense when painting, particularly realistic water color, caring too much that it "turns out right." I think I may be doing more printmaking, and construction-art work in the future.               

Multiples

 Photography again....I'm behind a couple of days due to yard work! The assignment was to find a lot of something for your photo. The first is taken at a crayola display wall in the KC Crayola store (a really fun place!) There are big bins of crayons of many colors.

The second is of my thread drawer - don't know why I keep all this thread because I don't really sew much anymore. I've always liked thread displays!

Painting with light

 This was a lot of fun! You could use time lapse photography or just move the camera to do some painting with light. I used an area above my kitchen cabinets where I have some colored bottles and a lot of small spot lights. These are some of the images I got.

I like to play around with the photos on the computer - you can get some very nice abstractions of color, tone and shape. The top one is orton-ish,, the second is in duo-tone and the last a cross process.