The painting part is done. I cleared out my supply closed from the SRHC.
Here are the last bits of the mural: the blue wall, the yellow wall, and a little addition to the orange.

Hurray! The orange section of the SRHC Pediatrics is finished. 

The last and the longest one left is blue.

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The red wall is almost done. Details from the Circus theme. 

My Internship at the Salina Regional Health Center

This is a great project; it makes me very happy every time I go there. When little kids point their fingers at the wall, and say: "This is a star", "This is a frog", it makes me feel that I am actually doing something important. Two sections are done so far, and third one in progress. And three more are waiting for my brush!
Here are the pictures below.

The purple section was complete back in February.

 Before...

After....

The green section was finished over the spring break.
Before...

After...

The red section is still work-in-progress, but I hope to finish it this week.

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.