Thursday, January 17, 2013

We are not dead yet!

 Well, ahem, it has been a while!  I haven't done much art (besides the art of birthday cakes and the art of vaccuuming and the art of surviving with a  4, 3, and 2 year old in tow), but I have done some.  So let's document, shall we?
 I've actually been teaching a little homeschooling family.  I will be the first to say that teaching kids is not something I'm a natural at.  But I'm learning.  And they are absolutely the best people in the world, and very patient with me and my learning curve.  I'm going to try to take some more pictures of the work they've been doing and put it up on the blog.  The two photos above are part of an illustration project.  Zach (10) wanted to illustrate a scene from the Hobbit, so we made a dragon out of clay and used Rice Krispies for the pile of gold, and a little lego Bilbo for Bilbo.  Ha!  I'm excited to see how his painting turns out.
Over Christmas I was able to do a couple of drawings as gifts, one of my nephew Graham:
 And this drawing is of Grandpa Fisher, who died a few years ago.  This was for my mother in law.  I got tears!  It was a good moment.
I'm working on another drawing, one of my nephew, Ollie, and I'm also toying with the idea of bas relief sculpture for portrait work.  My homeschooling family bought me some sculpting tools for Christmas (!!!) so I have what I need to begin!  Hopefully I will be posting some sculpture here sometime soon.
Happy arting!