Looms 2

Here are several more loom illustrations found in Eric Broudy's "The Book of Looms." (see 5/26/13 post) Over the millennia, textile-making has taken so many forms!

Watercolor Archive 3

Timed warmups and homework, Spring 2013:

Watercolor Archive 2

More timed warm-ups from Spring 2013 WC class:

Watercolor Archive

Putting away materials from the Spring Term class -- a couple of timed sketches done for practice:

Watercolor Final -- installation

We had our final presentations in Watercolor Class today. Everyone's projects were beautifully conceived and executed. This is the best art class I've ever attended. As our instructor says, it's a safe environment for saying stuff that really matters to you.

Symbolism: freeways (youth), rivers (age), twigs with red cloth wrapping (death and life force combining), sewing thread (people's connections to each other and to whole landscapes making up a life)

Watercolor Final, rough draft

The final project for my watercolor class (worth 20% of the grade for the term) is due next Friday. Last week my teacher gave feedback on my rough draft: 1) "great idea, do not abandon it," and 2) "every element has to have a reason related to the piece's central idea."

Following up on earlier assignments about a "veil" obscuring an expanded set of possibilities, the final piece involves a cut-paper design which floats 2 inches above a landscape. The latter was originally planned to be the aerial view of a river (plus water-dwelling critters) painted on a 5-foot-long rectangle. "Sounds more like a 6-month project than a 6-day one," was another bit of (accurate) feedback! One can try for a simplified version this week and continue the series in a future class.

For the present, the curly wire legs holding up the hoops are "history." Ditto the brown paper border beneath the river...

In this rough draft version of the final installation, interlocking freeway cloverleafs form a veil obscuring the view below.

A freeway interchange hovers as a "veil" obscuring the view of the river beneath. Threads from above will replace the wire legs.

An Evening of Renaissance Song

Our early music vocal ensemble has prepared a concert for Wednesday, June 12. We've worked hard for many months to prepare songs in French, German, Italian, Latin, and English. It's going to be lovely!



Our concert poster