Prisma

Found a cool new app for my iphone that renders an ordinary photo into a artwork.  I've gone a little crazy with it and have imagined endless possibilities for my photos including illustrations for the children's book I am working on and for coloring book pages.

Photos as illustrations

Coloring book pages

Pop Art!

Billy Jacobs

I had wonderful day today roaming the back roads of north eastern Ohio with my friend Lisa. We had lunch at a cute little restaurant and visited the Billy Jacobs gallery in Navarre, saw a bunch of cool historical buildings, stopped at a cheese shop and a winery and even saw sasquatch and got a baby bunny fix!

Senior Show

Elisha is graduating this Sunday.  She is an Art major with an Art History minor. As part of their graduation requirements she had to have a senior exhibit to show her work.  Her show (along with two of her classmates) was on May 4^th in the art gallery. 

Her works were all done with repurposed items. Her 3-D piece (the double doors) contained 36 panels with each side representing a family member in her family tree. One side was her mom’s family and one side was her dad’s family. All of the individual tiles were hand lettered.

Her other works were framed 6 word memoirs.  She asked 16 of her closest friends from throughout her life to participate. Each of the memoirs is also hand lettered and the fabric behind the lettering was submitted by the person for whom she drew the memoir. (We think these could be good sellers if she did custom orders). All of the frames here were repurposed as well.

The event was very well attended and all of the artwork was really well done. We are very proud of all that she has accomplished in the past four years.

 The gallery

Six word memoirs

 3D Genealogy Doors

All of us

Elisha with one of her favorite professors and his wife who also happens to be our University's President.  We were honored to have them in attendance.

And while Elisha was in the lab working on her doors I was next door making a ceramic Nolan which I painted and she glazed for me the following week. Not bad for a first attempt if i do say so myself.