Art: Collage

Collage

by

Lauren

"I tend to exercise my creativity in short, powerful bursts of inspiration.  Creative plyometrics so to say...  One day, my sister comes home from a 'grieving through art' workshop with an amazing collage of magazine images, and I can feel my creative muscle quivering with inspiration, longing for exertion.  This piece is the first of many collages to come, and began with a photograph of our New Perspective, a painted world cut from a calendar, and a piece of art work from a home magazine, all pieced with seaside themed scrapbooking embellishments and ransom note alphabet stickers."

Art: Child's Drawing

"You and I Sailing Around the World"

by

Christopher

Colored pencils on drawing paper

Chris drew this picture of our boat when he was about 9 years old.  He was out and about with Tom and wanted something to do in the car.  I was impressed by his realistic details of a keel, rudder, boom and cabin.  Somewhere around here, I have a picture similar to this and underneath, on the ocean floor, is the whole Sponge Bob set up!!  Soooo cute!! 

Art: Pointillism

"Starfish"

by

Lauren

Ink on drawing paper

Lauren says:  "My subject for this picture was a pinhole photograph of a beach horizon.  Getting the perspective right was tricky and took many hours of repetitive dotting.  If only you could reach out and feel the texture on this starfish!!"

Art: Painting

"New Perspective"

by

Lauren

Acrylics on canvas

Lauren says:  "My favorite part of this picture was stippling the white parts of the waves to look like sea foam.  I'm glad I haven't sailed in a sea this rough, but it makes for good art.  My next piece will be a series of black dots arranged to look amazingly life-like....A STARFISH!  We'll post it soon."