Saturday Fun with the Girls

Saturday the girls and I spent the day together. When Jordan woke up in the morning she was excited because we had so many fun things planned. We started the day with French toast breakfast followed by a very long arts and crafts session. The girls wanted to make Jacob birthday presents so they worked on collages. The cut out pictures from magazines and created lovely cards for Jake.

Jordan is very focused on her work.

Torrin is also working hard to create the perfect picture.

This is Jordan's creation

This is Torrin's work of art.

Here I am doing my homework while the girls work on their collages. I am supposed to be creating a surrealist painting.

Here is my finished work.

After our art session we had lunch and then went for a walk to see the llamas. Then we came home and made cookies.

They were supposed to be Thanksgiving cookies but a couple of christmas trees snuck in.

At the end of the day the girls played Mario Cart on the Wii. The are very funny drivers. Torrin gets very animated.


Here is a picture of my little lap dog Sadie.

Figure Drawing Class

I have been in a figure drawing class for a few weeks now. I wanted to share some of my work with my friends and family. In this posting I will be showing 2 projects that were focused on cubism. One assignment was to create a collage from a still life. First we drew the still life from 3 different perspectives. Then we combined them into one picture to create the collage.

This is the pen and ink drawing of one view of the still life. There were 2 other views.

This is the resulting collage in which I combined features from each of the drawings.

In the next project we drew a figure from 3 different perspectives.

Below I am showing 2 points of view. (Don't want to bore you with repetition)

From the three figure drawing we were to combine them into one picture and create a cubist painting. We were also supposed to make it monochromatic. I choose blue.

My next assignment is on surrealism. I am not to excited about this one but hope to learn as much as I did with the cubist study.

Halloween!

Halloween was really fun this year because the little girls were so excited about it. Kevin bought them a gingerbread haunted house to decorate.

Here is Jordan spreading the tar on the roof.

This is the finished product.

We grew a pumpkin in the garden. Kevin carved it.

We went to Kimberly's to have dinner and take the girls trick or treating. Angelita, Jerry, Joshua, and Ashley came over too. I tried to make some eggs and meat balls look like eyeballs. The eggs look more like a different body part.

As disgusting as this looks it was very delicious. It was a chocolate mud pie.

My favorite was the jello worms I made. I poured the jello mixture into straws and then squeezed them out.

Here is the lovely vampire Jordan

Here is Torrin the super girl.

Josh and Ashely all dolled up.