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Signs of Spring

4/29/2012

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Spring has arrived at the Blue Church: the flowering crab apple tree just outside the entrance to the church has burst into glorious pink bloom, and in the art room my students have painted its portrait! 

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Middle school students painted bright watercolors:
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The younger students combined colored pencil, watercolor, and tempera paint to create their trees:
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Some familiar creatures appeared among the spring blossoms:
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The robin is one of the first signs of spring. Blue Church Art's youngest students painted these beauties:
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There were lots of spring flowers from the garden for the Blue Church Art students to paint. Daffodils, Dicentra (also known as "Bleeding Heart"), Leucojum (Spring Snowflake), Muscari (Grape Hyacinth), and Mertensia (Bluebells) in white vases were wonderful subjects to draw.
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Some dogs and cats snuck into these masterpieces!
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Some of the white vases went psychedelic! 
These beautiful bouquets were drawn using colored pencils:
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Dragons Galore!

4/9/2012

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On the last day of the Marywood University MFA Study Tour in New York City we met at the School of Visual Arts near Gramercy Park for a critique of our latest project. The assignment was to "reinvent the wheel" in some artistic form. My solution was inspired by the image of a beautiful red Michigan logging wheel that I found online. These huge wooden wheels (ranging from 9-10' in height) were invented by Silas Overpack in 1875 for hauling logs from the forest in all seasons. I created my own version of the Overpack wheel in Photoshop, and combined it with my painting of a dragon to produce...a DRAGON WHEEL! The resulting poster was a little “off the wall,” but it was a big success with my classmates and professors. To celebrate Chinese New Year this January, my grade 4-12 students painted dragons in gouache (2012 is the year of the Dragon). I'm sure that their awesome dragons provided some of the inspiration for my dragon wheel. 

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A week in New York City.

4/4/2012

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I just got back from a week's stay in New York City for a Marywood University MFA "Study Tour." Twenty-six students came from all over the U.S. to meet in NYC for workshops, illustrator and graphic designer presentations, a visit to world famous graphic design agency Chermayeff and Geismar (creators of the NBC Peacock logo, and the PBS and Mobil logos), and lots of fun trips to art exhibits and galleries. We ate in some AMAZING restaurants, shopped in some very unusual stores, and did a LOT of walking. There's so much to see and do in New York! I took more than 700 photos with my trusty Canon Rebel- here are a few for you to enjoy.
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Fountain sculpture in Central Park's Conservatory Garden, and a hat made of pennies that appeared in a student exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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A fantastic Chinese dragon for sale at Pearl River Mart (a wonderful store in Soho), and the view from our table at Panna II. This unusual restaurant serves delicious Indian cuisine at 93 First Avenue in the East Village.
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    Blue Church Art 
    offers weekly group lessons in drawing, painting, and design ~ 
    fun classes for pre-kindergarten through adult students, 
    in a non-competitive and nurturing environment.

      

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