Still Life Art

Ok, maybe I won't make my living as an artist, but it's fun trying. Tonight we practiced painting still life. Our instructor, Barb, draped a sheet of navy broadcloth over a chair placed stragetically on a desk and set two smaller pieces of pottery in front of a jar containing dried grass - very similar to what you see below. It took a bit more concentration and even though I was left to turn out the lights, this is what I brought home.

Spring!

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz,

I wonder where de birdies is.

People say they're on the wing but

that's absurd 'cause the wing is on the bird!

I'm not sure where this little poem came from, but I think I read it in one of my elementary school books many moons ago. If anyone knows the source of the poem, maybe they can let me know.

Anyway, welcome to the first day of Spring! We had temperatures above zero and it rained most of the day but I don't think the crocus or daffodills will be poking through just yet. There's still a few feet of snow on my flowerbeds as you can see in this photo I snapped this afternoon.

Rock Painting

Tonight was our third art class. Some of us decided to try painting on different surfaces. Barb, our wonderful, talented, and creative art teacher, brought along some clean, bare rocks and samples of her painting done on rocks. She had woderful little brooches painted on small smooth beach rocks, a medium sized paperweight creatively decorated and a larger painted rock that could be used as a door stop. Great inspiration! This class was a lot of fun and I laughed 'til I cried. After some experimenting, starting over, and help from Barb, these are the results I brought home with me tonight.

Acrylic Painting, Lesson 2

This is my second attempt at Beginner's Art with acrylic paint. Ok, I have a very patient art teacher! Just in case you don't recognize the setting, it's a view of Salt Pond from Gosling Park - or reasonable fascimile :)