This project was to create instructions and illustrate them. I chose to do this as a pencil drawing, using yoga poses as the subject. I love to practice yoga and have seen great benefits in increased flexibility and balance over the past 15 years. I am a stickler for correct position and realize that as good as yoga is for your body, you can injure yourself as well without proper alignment. These three are my favorite poses: Triangle, Down Dog and Child's Pose. You might say I enjoy the restful postures over the more difficult ones!

Eat or Be Eaten

Fish Food

This assignment was to work with metal or wire. I've been working on a piece for the Art League, "Eat Me" exhibit. So I've been cutting shapes from sheet copper, shaping, texturizing and detailing them (remember your copper pictures from Jr. High shop class?) Salt and vinegar gives a lovely blue-green patina on copper. Liver of sulfur blackens the surface.

The first piece is my favorite - The fish are created in the manner described above, and are mounted on a spiral of copper wire. The base is of melted plastic (remember the light project?) and then placed on a slab of sandstone. This little table sculpture is in the current Columbia Art League juried show.

The middle piece, "Fish Food" is mounted on a brass strip and uses seaweed with a blue-green patina. I thought burlap and a nice stained board made great contrast to the metal.

"Fish," the bottom piece is mounted in a black shadow box. Can you tell I've been spending time with my goldfish pond? I really enjoy working with copper - it is so easy to shape and lends itself to textures very well. Besides that, it is just a pretty color!

The challenge today was to build something tall that would stand up on it's own. I used Jenga blocks to build a structure. Nothing very notable - but I'm behind a day or so on this 365 day project, so this will do!

Paper Sculpture

"Without scissors or glue, create something 3 dimensional using only paper," was the assignment. This turned out to be harder than it first appeared. Paper is rather flexible; can be folded, creased, curled, torn, fastened with tabs.... you can use a variety of paper types. Getting things to stand upright is more of a challenge. This one is mostly construction paper and some colored tissue. Sorry about the clutter in the background - my drafting table is usually rather messy!
I'm enjoying the transitory nature of these projects - emphasis on the process rather than the product.

Tape was the medium of the day. I used leftover tape from Christmas (the fruit of the Spirit) and some surgical tape, to divide the space. Very simple, but I kind of like the results.

Dots are the theme of the day... With a marking pen I started to make areas of dots which grew into a dragon-like creature.

Quantity over quality. Work with a lot of something. I chose beads, some of which are actually shells with holes for stringing. Lots of beautiful colors and textures - I didn't try to make a "picture" of them - just arranged them in a pleasing configuration.