Canteloupe

I've put the trash wip to the side for the moment. I'm planning on doing this image with my students on the Alaskan cruise I'm doing next month with Ann Kullberg and Anne De Mille Flood. Oh my did I say next month!

We will be working from photographs aboard the cruise as our resources will be limited and there will be up to 30 students. I put together this still-life for the cruise because I wanted something that went with what I have been doing and the brightly colored fruit against a neutral background fit the bill. I backlit the canteloupe using just my window light completely inspired by Cecile Baird's work. The soft folds on the fabric as well as the ambient lighting on it creates a nice contrast without too many elements to learn in a short amount of time with the students.

Show in Peterborough, NH until 4/29

I should have posted this before but there still are a couple of weeks left. Some works have been sold but I believe they will stay hanging until the end of the show.

Sharon Art Center Gallery, downtown Peterborough, NH. www.sharonarts.org

Trashcan Art WIP - post 2

My daughter is still ill but feeling better, of course now my youngest has the bug. I just got a call from my 2nd graders teacher and it seems it has gone through the classroom pretty hard.

So I didn't get to work at all yesterday as I had a 4 year old on my lap all day watching cartoons... I did this little bit on the trashcan project the day before. I used lots of pencil on some dark grey pastelbord and thenlots of solvent. I'm not sure i like the results yet but I'm going to work a bit more until I decided if I need to start over.

Trashcan Art: Abstract Work In Progress

I went to the dump last week and took loads of photos. The metal pile proved to be the most promising but since they have a policy of not allowing people to pick from the metal pile I had to deal with getting questioned from one of the men working there. I don't think he quite understood why I was taking photos of the trash.

Anyway here's one of the pics I took - I love the bright blue sky above the big pile! I wanted to do a more abstract piece so I looked through a bunch of photos like that looking for recurring shapes and an interesting color scheme. I could have composed it at the dump but I felt funny since I was being watched, so I decided to take loads of photos of everything on my highest resolution and look for an interesting abstract composition afterwards from the much better smelling comfort of my home and computer desk.

OK so there's the reference I'll be using. I like it just as is so it will be tough to improve on it with colored pencil, but we'll see!


So what's in your trashcan?

Maggie's Tea

Hey all. I decided to spring clean this last weekend instead of work on art and then my daughter came down with something... we go to the doctor in an hour.

I did squeeze this little drawing out yesterday while sitting on the couch with her all day. That's the great thing about colored pencils isn't it? I sat on the couch and worked on one of those little tv snack tables with my pencils either in a cup on the table or sitting on the couch in a tub betweeen my daughter and I. She was doing the same thing on her snack table and made some cute little miniatures with my pencils. :-)

This is just 8" x 10" on pastelbord.