New Baby Name Signs

Sharing something today that I make for special new babies in my life, babies born to co-workers, neighbors, cousins. 
I am enchanted with the names of babies and how one ever decides which one to pick!
I like to paint custom name "signs" with the "new" name.
This one incorporates symbols  of wood and plumbing to signify the work of the father and grandfather. The bicycle wheel is a symbol of how the two parents met.

What I did for Art today, and yesterday...

Two new images here, from what I guess is turning into a Whirl/Swirl series of computer manipulated images that I made from an original painting of mine. It has been fun getting to play with the programs and learn how to do watermarks, etc. I hope I have saved them correctly in order to link to a publishing website for print orders. I'll be working on that in the coming weeks.











Recently, I have been selected to have go through a residency program for art educators with our local Children's Museum. I am excited at his new possibility and look forward to designing some art lessons for kids with the support of this wonderful program.

What I did for Art today

Still having fun manipulating my digital image I made from a painting. This is is the newest version and I have a couple others that I am still working on. Sometimes I get hung up on reducing and saving the image the right way to have options for posting etc.

Swirl Girl

 This is a piece I am working on now. In my first posting I showed the paper painting I started with, again the image on the left. Now it is flipped and I am evolving it along to it's next level. This stage, on the right,  took multiple image programs to produce.

4th Grade Art Lesson

These are some pictures from a volunteer project I did with one 4th grade class last year. The students had to follow directions, think of design ideas quickly and spontaneously, and fill the final work in with marker lines. It was great to see how each artist perceived the lesson. This was about a 30-45 minute lesson in a class of about 27 students, and another session was done in class to finish coloring.