The Fall

You want to see a gorgeous movie? Stunning scenery and enchanting characters?
The Fall fits the bill.
I think I want to live there...oh, and I'd have to be about 25 years younger.

Mural @ MESS

We launched our Below the North Pacific mural today, completing about 2/3 of the background.

The girls couldn't stop grinning and some of them kept going out of the hall then returning to get a fresh impression. I'd like to do some airbrushing if the The Husband can rescue my airbrush from the dried paint that I invariably leave behind...but I try to clean it...I really do!

Next date will be this Friday - for 8 hours if necessary.

Grade 7s + Charcoal + Friday Afternoon

What could possibly go wrong??

It could have been worse, though their attention spans matched that of a 5 year old's By the time I got to this spider I couldn't get them to watch anything ....probably could have demonstrated step by step draw-your-own-porn in charcoal and not elicited much more reaction. The teacher forced them to actually look at it so they all rallied valiantly and emerged from their semi-comas enough that I'd say they appreciated it.

Found, Lost And Found Again

I've been gathering rusty bits and taking photos of derelict buildings in order to collect reference material for my senior's acrylics class. They're possibly the most motivated adult group I've ever experienced which has resulted in getting off my ass and prepping more thoroughly than I've done in the past. I don't spoon feed them as much either; I've forced them to draw more and design their own compositions on occasion.
So - in the process I rediscovered some lovely rust debris someone gave me and what did I finally notice?? There's a section of saw blade with an accidental heart shape in it! After I'd piled my selection together I thought it made a nice composition in itself (what with the chain over the heart) - now ... for a title...

...got it! 'Unrequited'

From Russia...

...with intentions I can't even begin to fathom.
To skew it further, the first 3 figures belong to the original series while the last two, well...don't.

Couldn't Resist!

Have to admit I've been just as bad as most souls searching the net...though I do take immense pride in never dipping below Not Relevant .

Found this on GraphJam right about here http://graphjam.com/

First Birds

The very first birds started showing up on the Nechako Mural today! So that's 12 down and about 170 left to do. Looks like I can get through half a class in one block of time so it's going exactly to schedule. For now...