WPC – Rise/Set

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..this week’s photo challenge asks us to post our favourite Sunrise and/or Sunset photos

New Flower (March 29, 2018) – Yellow Orchid

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365 Days of Art – Day 59

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….more examples of Dr. Seuss characters

Dr. Seuss often employed long eyelashes with his characters and loved exaggerated features like the feathers on the head of this bird and the long intertwining legs.

365 Days of Art – Day 58

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..planning on creating a Dr. Seuss like character

For one of my year long assignments with Carla Sonheim I’m suppose to come up with my own Dr. Seuss like character. I decided to study some of Dr. Seuss’ illustrations and see what common characteristics they have. One is the u shape inside the large oval eyes that he uses for most of his characters. The mouth line is just a simple curve ending with a curved cheek line. Here are two practice drawings that I copied from his book What Pet Should I Get?

New Flower (March 28, 2018) – Pink Wax Flower

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Mama Cormier

Just bought myself a bunch of these beautiful flowers.

A Square of Random Lids

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….do you find you have more lids than containers or vice versa?

Thanks to Becky B for hosting March Square. We’re getting close to the end.

Rocky Raccoon Caught in a Square Box

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Mama Cormier

…..thanks to Becky B for hosting March Square

This little fella or gal was sitting in our deck box yesterday. Our dog was sniffing around the box when we let her outside and she was quite agitated. When my husband opened the box this is what he saw. He quickly called me outside and prompted me to open the box while he took a photo. I was a little nervous but the dog scared this critter more than we did. I’m going to say that ‘Rocky’ is a girl because when she climbed out she struggled quite a bit because of her massive size. I suspect that she’s pregnant. No animals were harmed in this exercise and Rocky has not returned.

365 Days of Art – Day 57

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Mama Cormier

Complicated Colour Fields – Part 2

A couple of weeks ago I showed you a project that I started with Carla Sonheim called Complicated Colour Fields – Part 1. You can see what I made here.

The following week I had to cover the entire piece with different bands of acrylic colour and then sand away some of the paint, once it dried, to bring back some of the designs from below. I did that but very little of the original patterns showed through. I decided to share it with you because this is called 365 Days of Art, not 365 Days of Great Art. Some days you won’t get what you hoped for and sometimes it’s more than you hoped for.

For me these two pieces were a bit of a disappointment but I can see using them either has a backdrop for another art project or cut up or torn up for a collage piece. Do you have any suggestions for me?

New Flower (March 27, 2018) Pink Begonia

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Roda’s Critter Connection- March 26, 2018

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Mama Cormier

….thanks to Roda for hosting Roda’s Critter Connection

This is another frog from the exhibition at the Royal Botanical Gardens. It is an African bullfrog. It may not be apparent from the photo but this beauty is about the size of a dinner plate.