…thanks to Nancy Merrill for hosting A Photo A Week Challenge
At the beginning of the summer I went to the ROM and took in a show called Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion. This wonderful designer creates fashion that is a form of art that is closely related to her and her body. Her garments combine the often friction-filled world of technology and nature. She pushes the limits of haute couture.
….the word for Word of the Day Challenge is patterns
Patterns are everywhere. Some are man-made and others occur naturally in nature.
Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
Totem Pole at the ROM
Budda Head
Grid platform on the climbers
Fireworks – Random Pattern
Pattern in Nature
Symmetrical Pattern
Asymetrical Pattern
Artistic Pattern by Kenojuak Ashevak
Persian Rug
Horizontal and Vertical Line Patterns
Diagonal Patterns
Brick Work
….thanks to Cee for hosting the Black and White Photo Challenge
Wine Glass on the Beach
Glass Bird Feeder
Philip Beesley Glass Sculptures
Glass of Beer
Glass Windows on the ROM Addition
…..start with a sunny day, find a rocky beach and zoom in on the water
….thanks to Cee for hosting the Which Way Photo Challenge
Signs, roads and walkways.
….thanks to Cee for hosting the Black and White Photo Challenge
This summer I’ve spent as much time as possible visiting art galleries, museums and gardens. The first group of photos are from the grounds surrounding the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg. These amazing sculptures were created by Ivan Eyre.
The next set were taken at the AGO from the Rebecca Belmore show. Rebecca is an Anishinaabekwe artist who is known for her performance and installation work.
….day 144
The assignment from Carla Sonheim this week was to find a photograph of a chicken and draw the outline with a black Sharpie and then with a finer marker make some detail marks and lastly take a pencil and add some shading. It was optional to add colour with some light coloured markers.
I think I will try this again but use lighter markers or no colour at all.
….days 141 to 143 of 365 Days of Art
Over the long weekend I was totally engrossed in creating these collage characters made from art papers. The first thing I had to do was create more art paper because I had left my collage papers at home. Out came the watercolour paper and my watercolour set and I went to town. 
Once they dried I cut out random shapes in different sizes and then I started to play. Here are three more ‘characters’ that I created from the cut out shapes.
…..day 140 of 365 Days of Art
Over the long weekend I worked on Carla Sonheim’s assignment, Character Development. We had to take art papers and cut them up into random shapes….large, medium and small. Then the fun began.
I looked at all the pieces and looked for shapes to create an animal. The idea here was not to go with the first creation but continue to move pieces around and change them until you saw something that you really liked. Here is my little bird, duck, chicken going through different stages.
…..here is my final bird
….Day 139 of 365 Days of Art
My granddaughter picks up language so quickly and sometimes she takes expressions and changes them for her amusement. I guess she must have heard the saying ‘shiver me timbers’ and she changed it to ‘shiver me Timbits’. For those of you who aren’t Canadian a Timbit is a small round doughnut or doughnut hole sold at the Tim Horton’s Coffee chain.
I took her expression and attempted to draw a box of ‘cold, shivering Timbits’.
