….every year the boys and girls in grade one create projects that represent the number 100 and on the 100th day of the school year they are all put on display in the gym
Here is a selection of some of the projects that the grade ones with the help of their parents presented to the school community today.
….I’m getting a little behind with my ‘faces challenge’ so I’ve included 3 faces that I’ve done with my art classes
We’re having a lot of fun creating faces using paper collage. Each student is making 12 different faces using different papers so there are very few that are finished and ready to display. As soon as they are I will post them here on this blog.
…..using technology to create faces
Today I downloaded some apps onto my iPhone and started to play. The first face is a photograph made to look like a sketch and the second face was created using my finger as the pencil.
I posted this yesterday and tonight I found it sitting in a draft file.Sigh!
….it’s a little late
Anticipation
Cheeks glowing brightly
From copious sips of wine
Eyes bright and searching
I posted this yesterday but it went back into my draft file. Frustrating!
…I learned that the hard way tonight
I love to cook and since my husband does most of it, I’ve been a bit out of practice. Tonight I was draining the boiling water from the pasta when a large portion splashed out of the pan and onto the floor. Unfortunately my foot was in the way and I wasn’t wearing any footwear other than socks. Ouch!
I sat at the dinner table with a baggie of ice on top of my foot but I probably waited a little too long before I administered first aid to myself. The foot has already started to blister and at the moment it is stinging like crazy.
Maybe I’m taking this drawing thing a bit too far but I really didn’t think that the photograph did justice for the the pain I am feeling.
After reading about burns in restaurants I discovered that major burns are a frequent occurrence, particularly scald injuries (hot water from pasta pots). So to all my friends who work in kitchens and cook at home take this piece of advice…..wear shoes on your feet when working around hot water.
Cheers!
…..every day in the month of February I will post a new face that I have drawn
Now that my on-line course is finished I need to practise what I’ve learned and experiment with new techniques. I discovered a challenge over at 29 Faces Challenge and I’m hoping tp post one new drawing every day for the next 28 days. It’s called the 29 Faces Challenge because is was started in a Leap Year when February has 29 days.
After posting the line drawing of my friend L, I got a lot of positive comments. Even my friend L liked it but our friend M thought it made her look too old. I have to agree so I’ve done a new drawing from the same photograph. I think it’s much more flattering and I see the value of doing the assignments a couple of times.
Original drawing.
….I chose to draw the portrait of a good friend….the image came from a photograph
One of the assignments, yesterday, was to draw a realistic image from a photograph. I had a great shot of my friend L taken at my daughter’s shower a couple of years ago. It’s not a perfect likeness but it’s pretty close.
The assignment required that I add water to the pencil to shade the picture. Parts of it turned out darker than I would have liked so I think it ages my friend a bit. Other than that I’m pretty happy with it. Makes me want to experiment with my watercolours.
Cheers!
….3 days into a new online course
I recently signed up for another on-line course with Carla Sonheim. It’s called Faces 101 because by the end of the five day course I should have drawn and painted 101 faces. I’m already one day behind on my assignments but the good thing with this course is that once you purchase the program the assignments and videos are always available to you. I can post up to six of my best pieces onto a group page on Flickr daily and Carla will comment on my progress.
Here are a few of my faces so far:
….here are the results of the lesson I started a couple of weeks ago
It was a bit of a struggle but with a little bit of encouragement to keep going and add more detail the first few tissue landscapes are finished.
Mama Cormier 