Some Art Old and New

In cleaning out/sorting, you know, "spring cleaning", I came across some old art from college days and later. Here are some samples to tickle your eyes....(sorry, you'll have to gather some tissues  to wipe those tearful eyes later....)

Drawing in ink with dots

Some plant - a violet? These drawings have seen better days...

 

Cross-hatching?

Black and white - maybe negative colour

Have no idea

Shading of a sphere

Still life

Hats in ink or black/white water colour?

Hiking boots

That ink again, maybe showing different textures - not sure if this was for class or not

Stuff

Drawing stuff without looking at your hand

Without looking

Skull

 

Stuff

Some hats.  I think this IS pencil

Perspective (damaged) - good grief, was the cat tearing it up? or peeing on it?

Still life - I like the onion, don't you?

Stuff

Cloth draped (damaged)

I don't know if this was for class or not

Cross-hatching?

Here we had to draw a portrait using pixel-like squares

And now for some more recent stuff.

Za Hoomaan Eye (don't ask about that lower lid, I don't know!)

A watercolour (vague likeness) of one of my hubby's photos

From a watercolour instruction book (you can tell I want to learn watercolour - one day I might get there....)

(Mostly) acrylic still life from a print

Spring has Sprung again

Isn't it nice to know the seasons roll on in a relatively predictable way?  Two months ago we had this:

8 inches of snow

 And now we have this:

With Redbud and Dogwood

Dogwood

 

 3 snow-thrones

Ah, much better.

 Some other spring milestones:
 

The birthday willow

Forsythia

The next few pics show the varieties of daffodils there are - and these are just in our garden. 

Yellow and orange

White with pale yellow

Double

White, yellow and Orange

White and yellow

An 8 petaled daffodil (most are 6)

Yellow on yellow

A bunch on one stem (this one isn't in our garden...)

Flowering quince in March

 

Forsythia pruned (at a nearby assisted living)

Phlox - April

Cascades of phlox in April

Cherry? blossoms - April

Flowering quince in April

School projects

Two recent school projects.  The first was to build something to scale.  C chose the Big Ben tower, also known as the Elizabeth Tower (in London).

Built to scale, not in finest detail!

An animal cell

Wilderness at the Smokies

Spring break at Wilderness at the Smokies again.  Still a nice place to hang out when you can't afford to go to southern Florida!  Air temp is about 85 and the water warm.

The first night.  Relatively few people so it was easy to find a table or a chair anywhere you wanted.

This is what happens when you don't watch much TV at home....

91 steps to two slides and 70 to the other two.  Good exercise!

Wave pool

The roof allows sunlight in

3 stooges - D, C and A

D surfing

C surfing

A surfing

The children's play area with the bucket emptying. Wow, it's upright already!

Wave pool without the waves

With the waves

 We stayed 2 nights - just the right amount of time before we became too tired! 

What? Another birthday??

Pics describing our little birthday breakfast - NOT a party!  We didn't have time for a real party due to the busy schedule this lass keeps these days.

Birthday girl

Decorations

The birthday banner

So many presents this year!

The Cake

 Rainbow cake

Some of the party breakfast goers invitees.  I regret I didn't get a full-group pic!