The lighter side of art

I have been having such fun with my artwork lately. I had been thinking that I was being so serious...I needed to do something silly.

The St Michaels Art League has a Labor Day Show and Sale coming up soon. We will have artwork for sale from 34 different artists. Street banners from prior years will be on the clothesline and offered for sale along with the original banner artwork from this year.

This year we will also be featuring artists' demonstration throughout the two days. I will be offering a 'you paint' ice cream cone (just one dip cones) opportunity on Saturday afternoon. See post from July 20th.

I am signed up for two display panels. One panel will have some 'serious' art. The other one I will call "The Lighter Side of Art."

So, now I am working on a series of puns! I am doing watercolor and ink sketches for everyone to try to figure out and then giggle - or groan! (Groaning being the 'proper' response to a pun)

Here is a preview of a few of the sketches - see 'answers' below...and then drop by St Luke's Church lawn on Saturday, September 3 from10:00-5:00 or Sunday, September 4 from 12:30 to 5:00 and see more!

How did you do?

Apple Pie

Spring Training

Peace on Earth

Here's to you!

Hope you see you Labor Day weekend - come see some more...or if you have any ideas, let me know and I'll see about doing a sketch just for you!

A grand(children) time...

I have just waved good-by to two of my granddaughters who have been visiting with us for a week. It's always a busy, fun time...fishing, crabbing (we caught enough to steam and eat!), swimming, kayaking, shopping, MANY games of Sorry, watching the Olympics, and of course - arts and crafts.

So today instead of my artwork, I am posting the masterpieces that they created.

One of them had seen this idea of TV so we decided to try it.

We began with a brand new box of 96 crayons which they discovered in my craft box. We needed two canvas boards which I found in my workshop.

They each chose an assortment of rainbow colors (who knew there were that many different reds, blues, etc in that box!). They lined their crayons up on the canvas and we used a hot glue gun to stick them on.

Now for the fun part. We set up sort of a 'painting station' outside because it was going to be messy. We used newspaper, wax paper (to catch the drips at the bottom) and a cardboard backdrop...and got out a hair dryer!

Each girl blew her crayons and watched them drip in amazing ways! Here is the process of Hildry's masterpiece.

The crayons are glued on - she is beginning with hair dryer. It doesn't take long...

Here is the first round of dripping - we let it cool off and dry and decided to do it some more!

It was such fun to watch the colors drain out of the crayon papers and mix with each other! 

The wax paper at the bottom caught all the drippings and made another wonderful pattern of color!

Here is Winnie's artwork. As you can see she glued hers on straight across. Some of her crayons were 'metallic' and they created interesting textures and sparkle!

Her first dripping looked like this. We were really interested in the white space, too.

Some of the white space remained and the other colors are so vivid! We discovered that you can really blow those colors around. 

Here's a close up of her puddle of color. It still looks wet and runny, but by this time it had hardened.

Some might say that we 'wasted' about 4 dozen crayons, BUT... we had such a good time. 

I'm thinking that art should be FUN!