I have finished my first week with students in the classroom. It has been exhilarating, tiring, and rewarding all at the same time. I did go to the Tuesday night life drawing session at Stu's, though I was rather warn out. Teresa was our model. I worked with pencil in my sketchbook and then completed a drawing using conte crayon on pastel paper. I wasn't overly thrilled with the way it turned out as I could have used another 10-15 minutes to really finesse the drawing. This image shows 2 drawings I completed on the same page in my sketchbook. With the first drawing, I was focused on capturing Teresa's hand and arm. The second drawing was a portrait that really does look like Teresa.
Being back in school, I was only able to complete a couple of my daily collages. It was difficult because I did a little bit towards the collages strung out over a couple of days. I had a hard time getting excited by either one. The first is titled "Lamp Light", it began with a stamped background to which I collaged on bits of papers including part of an envelope and a photograph. The second is titled "Love is Everywhere", it began with a magazine transfer to watercolor paper and then I collaged a stamp, papers, another magazine image and a round metal piece onto the surface.
I also finished Mike's Box. I actually finished it last weekend, but didn't get around to photographing it until today. What is hard to see are the individual photographs that are contained inside the box. On the back of each individual photograph is the year it was taken. I used graphite pencil to draw the picture of Mike that is on the inside of the top of the box. The feet of the box are made from the plastic cylinders that are a part of Mike's insulin pump. I am totally pleased with the finished box.
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