She is... well, I do not know who she is...



Almost done!

Work in progress



This is not going well...

I think my cheap watercolors suck. I have put about 20 layers, and it still barely shows on the paper (the photo is darkened). Plus, the pigment is trickling down to the bottom of the palette and sits there like send instead of dissolving in the water... If I used acrylic, I'd be done by now...

Hindenburg Disaster Illustration

Not my best work, but here it is...
1. Internal cabin - passengers are talking to a crew member.
2. Herbert Morrison reporting the desaster.

KWU Art Gallery Exibit Figure of Speech. Title: To Die For... (mixed media)

Common object Add

PostSecret - a million of whispers in one ear.

Thinking about relationship between new media and the literature, I went looking for books based on blogs. Here is one particularly interesting example:

http://www.postsecret.com/

PostSecret is a blog where people share their secrets: pain, love, memories, hopes, crimes... Check this blog! It is a true poetry of the streets: romantic, cunning, rude, beautiful, stinky and fragrant at the same time, pulsing like one gigantic heart taken out of the chest cavity.

Equally interesting to the content is the form of people's expression: the blog is a collection of postcards richly decorated in all the forms of media you can imagine: drawings, collages, writing, photos. See for yourself...

I little lesson in marine biology...

This is a wonderful refute to people who not only disrespect women of all sizes, but also do not know how to write adds! All I can add to it, people, look at Matisse and Kustodiev paintings - they knew the right size!

October 3, 2011

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and b...eautiful woman. The caption was "This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?"

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

"Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I'd rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: "How amazing am I ?! "

(The girl on the picture is French model Tara Lynn)See more

by: Delphine Fieberg

 

Below: Henri Matisse "Odalisque Harmony in Red"

 

 

 

To the right: Boris Kustodiev "The Merchant's Wife"

We are doing homework

Cups in color

Imagine that, I have scanned my cups (at least the three that I have done) yesterday, and was completely convinced that I have put them on. Instead I spent all my time trying to figure out why the Blog viewer counter does not work, and forgot to make a post. Arg... I still do not know why it does not work, but here are my cups.

Interesting...

As usual, the best things are found when looking for something completely different. I went looking for The Canterbury Tale Prologue, and found this delightful site called

Art Passions

Check it out. Great illustrations and resources.

Common object assignment - developed sketches

Ufffff, it was a confusing project... but finally, I think I am on the right track. Here are my five developed sketches; well, more like 4 1/2, because two of them are the same.

Today is my daughter's Birthday!

This is a most wonderful picture she drew from lookinf at the Kung-fu Panda action figures.

I am both proud and impressed by her skills. I love you, S!

The last shoe.

This one is done in markers and color pencils. That's it, no more shoes!

Shoe Assignment #1 and #2

This is water crayon. However, since I did not water the crayon, it can be viewed as a regular crayon.

This one is done in pastel pencil. This shoe gave me so much grief, that I decided not to draw the second one. Plus, style-wise it is not that much different from the first pair.

Another variation of the portrait...

Line Art Illustration

A mysterious beauty of line is hard to understand. Line is basic. Line is simple. Yet, line is complex and inclusive. Line is endless. Line is an unreachable horizon. Line is limiting. Yet, being a symbol of infinity itself, line offers endless possibilities for manipulating form and texture. Outlining myself, can I define myself? Can I exhaust all the possibilities of cognition by bringing the end of the line into the point where it once began, or at the end, I am the same fool as I was when the journey started? Line.

Concrete Poetry

Concrete poetry is a charming combination of visual and language art. Authors of concrete poems connect words and images into a wholesome unity in order to convey their ideas. If my boring explanation did not scare you off, open a book of Shel Silverstein poems and see for yourself that concrete poetry is very amusing and engaging.

Students of all ages (ALL ages - I mean it - from K to college) enjoy assignments for writing concrete poems.

Here is my concrete poem.

Mud Fun