Time for Art!

Hello to All-

I hope everyone is managing this ambiguous time! There are so many things to worry about and so much time to do so! But there are some silver linings- the way so many people are using the technology we have to stage virtual meetings. I had a choir practice with Zoom last night, did a yoga class my teacher set up on Utube and have long text message conversations with teachers and my sisters. And we are spending more time outside! When I walk in Great Meadows, on the bike path or in the Brackett neighborhood I see so many friends and entire families walking together!

A Room for Art is closed with the public schools, preschools and most businesses. I am still taking registration for Summer Camp with the optimistic hope that the contagion will be resolved by June. But now we wait! 

Speaking of silver linings there is time to draw. It is so easy to think sweeping your stairs or doing the laundry or raking your leaves is more urgent than drawing an egg on your kitchen table!

Simple pencil drawing makes you look for what's light and what's dark. It's light that gives form! That is the essence of making something look like it has volume. I had a teacher that called 2D art trying to portray 3D as illusion making. Painters are Illusionists!

Idea of the day: (not a new idea) Go outside look at a tree, plant, a ball, a scooter. What is light? What is dark? what is in-between? Take a picture or do a drawing.

Yesterday's Idea: ( I am catching up!)

What can you make from T.P. rolls (as many as you like) , string, tape, hole punch and scissors? (maybe markers too) Send me your results!