3 views of a kiwi fruit

Top view of the kiwi:




Front view:



Side view:

leave no drawer unopened...

here are three contour drawings for our assignment:

my son's drawer with socks and undies...



a drawer with video games and extra controllers...



top tray of my sewing box.

Quantity prevailed over quality this time I must say. The sewing supplies would be really cute if done well, so one day I may try it again.

drawing from Lead Pencil art exhibit

This is my drawing from a sketch of part of an exhibit at the Weatherspoon art gallery here at UNCG. I used three different pens to achieve different line widths. I enjoyed the challenge after a few minutes of drawing, but was quite apprehensive before. Drawing = anxiety!!!!!!

a mess!

Our homework assignment was to draw a messy or cluttered area.
I drew the dishes my husband washed and left out to dry. (What a man, I've barely washed dishes over the last 16 months! He's awesome!) Fortunately for me, there weren't that many, and there weren't a million utensils to draw. That would really suck.
It ended up not filling the 11 x 17 page. That is a hard thing for me to do, to figure out how big to draw things...

mod, baby!

Love, love, love this room! I'm really into graphics with those fat little partridge-type birds now. I want to find a place in my house to incorporate the tree wallpaper, and I like how it is used on a small wall in this photo. [The pattern is called Cavern by designer Carly Margolis and can be found @ design public.] The mod crib is by ducduc, the ultra-chic furniture designers for children.
Unfortunately for me, by the time I could afford such luxury nursery furniture, my kids will be well beyond infancy! Time for baby number 3, perhaps? ;)



This leads me to digress a little...
My interest in design was first piqued when I was a kid. I remember driving around town at night with my parents, and asking them to slow down when we passed by houses with interior lights on, and the curtains opened. I was fascinated to have a glimpse of what other people's homes looked like, and I guess I never outgrew that. A perfect indulgence for this curiosity is a group on the photo sharing site, Flickr, that is comprised of real people posting their photos of kids' rooms. I love it! And yes, I've looked at all 1100+ photos! What great inspiration for ideas and innovative ways for toy storage you can find there (toy storage = a parent's greatest quandary).

doodle

Over winter break, I did more drawing than I ever expected to--a total of about three sessions. Miraculous, isn't it? Besides the Grinch, I have these little doodles. They're from an awesome book I bought for my children, called my first 1000 words (or something), in a Disney version. What's neat is that all of these everyday objects have been Disney-ized so that they are a little more cartoonish, and most everything is wonky or has rounded corners. But what a great exercise, to draw these simple little objects. Maybe over summer break I'll have time to try it again.