When I began this blog in 2011 (how can that be?), I pledged to myself that I would write at least twice a month... Obviously, that pledge has totally 'fallen by the wayside' this year!
I haven't done that much artwork, still adjusting to my new life, but the work I have done just didn't ever get posted. Today is an amazing Fall day with nothing on my calendar. Maybe I can catch up a little. So, I went back and looked at a few images that I had worked on...
Last June, my youngest granddaughter graduated from high school. She was getting ready to write some thank you notes for her graduation gifts. Her mother had bought her some nice (but unremarkable) cards to use for her notes. We were joking around about how to make them more fun... the next day I sketched out some ideas that eventually became this:
Gator Meets Hokie
Her high school mascot was the Gator. She would be on her way to Virginia Tech whose mascot is the Hokie!
Then...there was a joint graduation party to be given by her and one of her friends who would be going to Clemson... so we then had to have the Clemson Tiger!
Moving on...into June... I volunteered to do a house drawing for the Christmas in St. Michaels house tour booklet. It's deadline to get to the printer (even though the event in not until December) was the end June. This was the June project. The event is December 13-15. This year they are celebrating the 35th anniversary of this project which supports non-profits in our area.
Now into July... two projects! My daughter sent me a knitting project... She wanted me to knit a Hokie! It is a strange turkey-like creature. After looking at various patterns... this is what I came up with for granddaughter's birthday in August before she left for college.
The Virginia Tech colors are maroon and orange! Apparently, when VT began looking for colors, a committee made a list of all the colleges then in existence and found that maroon and orange were the only colors that had not been put together anywhere!
At the same time I was knitting at night I was also working on a pastel of a photo of my great grandson. When his parents had posted it, I knew I had to paint it! I finished it in time to give it to them when they came for a visit in August. It was on their wedding anniversary - a special time together. I wanted to put it in a show in September so I gave it to them and then took it back! It will make its way to their house soon. I titled it "Reflecting"
One more and I'll be caught up... The art league is currently exhibiting artwork at the library in Easton. This exhibit is called "Capturing Autumn". This is a painting of one of my granddaughters who is now 25! I love so much about this... her curiosity with the leaf, the colors, the timeless quality of sitting in a pile of leaves... It is a pastel titled "Her First Pile of Leaves."
One of the things that I know is that when I see a photo of one of these 'little people' I am captured by it and it often then 'paints itself.'
This current show will be at the library through the month of October.
