Starvation

Title says it all....

Painted cigar box

A painted cigar box.  I love it!

the LIPS have it.......

love these......made in a jiff while she was watching tv

Blue Beauty

Kaela did this with acrylics for an art exhibit at a local cafe.   I love it.  She is so strong and beautiful!

spring.......

I love this.  Kaela did it for art class so it is in her sketchbook.  I wish she had done this on a big canvas.....

Beautiful eyes

Over the holiday, curlygirl took up a pen and sketched out an eye.

Then she took a pen refill and broke it open and used it to color it in...

the result is beautiful.

But THIS one is even more lovely....she did this entirely with the broken pen, using the plastic to drag the ink where she wanted it to go.  

This eye reminds me of Elizabeth Taylor's because of the brow.  Beautiful.

I am jealous of my daughter's gift....but so happy she has it.  I don't know if she will use it after high school but I hope she does.

Mojo

Curly girl sketched Mojo while in class the other day.  As with Ginger, it was just her way of working through her grief....

He was a sweet boy and is missed......

Ginger

We all grieve in different ways.  Curly girl took to pen and paper when Ginger passed away.

more school "work"

I forgot to post this for Curly Girl.....It is my new favorite.....okay, so everything she does is my favorite.  But couldn't you just see this on a t-shirt?

I could....and I would wear it!  I think it would be lovely.  BTW, this is an original sketch so no using it for your own.  Feel free to link back though......

puttering with pottery

Kaela had to do a "mammal" in art class....out of clay.    Kaela likes to sketch so this "clay thing" as she kept calling it, drove her crazy!

I took lots of little photos of Ellie....such a cute face.

But this one shows her color off best.  



 She is happy in the china hutch with all the other lovelies!

sketches

One of Matt's friends asked for a sketch of a penquin.....I love how lifelike this little guy looks.

Still entranced by eyes..........

I love to watch her sketch....so fast and effortless, like breathing.

"the eyes have it..."

Kaela was messing around with some eyes she found on pinterest.  She has been practicing reflection and luminescence.  

I think they turned out beautifully.

"Looking through a........"

Kaela's latest art project was to be looking at something through a window or port hole, etc.  

This is the first time she has used chalk pastels and she LOVED them!   She sat outside in the sun and played with this for a couple of hours.......   It was nice seeing her so content while she created.

Baby Pearl

Baby Pearl Camelia drawn for a local competition....

bird sketches

pretty birds........



and



quickly sketched.......

album cover

Kaela had to design an album cover in her art class using an existing one as inspiration.

She loves Maroon Five so used their latest....."Overexposed"

as inspiration to create this....

pretty neat, huh!?

a rose is a rose

Kaela's art teacher is out on maternity leave. When the new teacher started, she had everyone in the class paint a picture. I'm sure it was to give her an idea of where they all are artistically.

Kaela drew something GORGEOUS and quite full of colorful flowers but her full name is incorporated into the painting so I can only post a small part of it.

I wish I could share the rest, it is lovely.

ROAR!

Kaela's school mascot is the tiger so for the last big art project of the 9 weeks, her teacher assigned everyone in class a tiger to draw.

Kaela found a picture and put it on her desk but when she turned her back, it somehow ended up on another girl's desk......hmmm.
She wasn't happy but didn't want to make a stink so she chose another picture.

It was a more difficult pose of a tiger lying down with his head on his legs. The hardest part was getting the ruff around his head right because part of it is hidden under his leg.

Once done, she was very pleased with how it turned out. Her smile pretty much says it all.



what a pretty kitty!

Bookmarks

Kaela had to do a book report for her English class. She chose to do a project using bookmarks.
Each bookmark represents something from the book "Dragon's Kiss." On the back of each bookmark is information about the story.




This is Audun (protagonist)


This is the entrance to the castle in the icy north (setting)


and this is the plot line

They turned out so well that her teacher is submitting them to the local parish fair for display.

Minnie goes to school....

Kaela had to do something to decorate the front of her art journal....so she choose Minnie....cute!