Calaveras and the crawlspace mystery

Started with sketches: 

And ended up painting up a combination. 

The fun part of calaveras makeup is it can still convey expressions.  I laughed when I saw Jen’s sketches since they were so similar. 

On a mysterious note Kent saw a skeleton the last time he was in the crawl space and I was looking up what it might be  I just realized the removal job will still fall to me, but then I should know what it is  my current bet it it’s a raccoo

Skullduggery

This turned out way different than I imagined at the start.

via GIPHY

Jen's skulls

Here is my skull series (sorry for the poor cropping on the emotionless skulls page)...

ALL THE CRAFTS!!!

I was able to combine my two favorite crafts: laser and sewing. I love how it turned out. 6 layers of fabric for the skull. It's a birthday present for Larissa so shhhhh....

Oops, I forgot to get a photo of the backing fabric. It's the lyrics to "You Are My Sunshine". On a side note, pompom fringe is a pain in the ass.

[Update: I added a photo of the backing fabric because I love it so much.]

 

Turkey Project

Our 3rd Grade Turkey Project

J's 3rd grade class had an optional family project to decorate a turkey.  They gave us a large piece of paper with the outline of the turkey.  J had the idea of creating a steampunk turkey with a window in it's belly with gears and such.  I had the idea of using cardboard as a medium to make it 3D.  S brainstormed with J on ideas and finished it off with some details (not shown).  The belly swings open on a pivot (the round dot of the right turkey wing) to reveal the window and J and I drew the gears inside (not shown).  Both the window and the eye are backlit with LEDs that J put together.  Of course, we were scrambling to complete it by the deadline and it's now hanging in J's class, so we don't have photos of the final piece with all the details, but here it is as we neared completion.

Idioms

We had our meeting for our Idioms pieces on April 14.  Since part of the fun was to guess what the idioms were, I'll just post the pieces here and let you figure them out for yourselves!  I'll post the results in the future.

 

Steph

paper and ink on cardboard

(nice volume on this side of the piece!)

HINT: this piece covers not one, two, or even three idioms, but four!

Derende

pastel, colored pencil, and ink on textured paper

HINT: this one is easy.

 

Anne

watercolor, newsprint, and ink

 

Gadget

ink and watercolor pencil on paper

Those of your familiar with Gadget's work know that this one is viewer-interactive.  It took us a few minutes working together to figure it out.

 

Kent 

 

 

The next meeting will be on June 9, and the topic is Tea.  See you then!

 

Bonus picture - I had to research idioms to figure out which one to work on.  My list was on the long side.

 

Gadget's ArtClub submission - April 2013 - Idiom

Gadget's ArtClub submission - April 2013 - Idiom

Date: Apr 14 2013
Location: D&K's

Theme - idom

Artist: Gadget

Conceptual / Puzzle
Mediums: Sharpie & water color pencil on old book pages
Instructions: Find the idiom by building a pictogram from the pieces - 7 pages, one answer