Rainbow Cupcakes and Helping Others

For primary the girls have been working on weekly temple prep challenges. Week #2 was "Help someone in need." On St. Patrick's Day Jacob helped them by baking cupcakes. They wanted to give them to some friends and neighbors. The girls each picked a couple friends and decorated green frosted cupcakes with rainbows (M&M's). They also took some to Sister Rundell and another couple in our ward. Bro & Sister Cooke. They are an adorable couple and she works in primary. When they brought them over she told the girls. "Thank you for helping me when I needed a cupcake!"  It was a fun way for them to serve others and learn to help in simple even fun ways.

A Compilation

I had a busy week.  A big test in Art History and another assignment in drawing.  This time the assignment was to do 4 small thumbnails for a composition including at least 6 elements and then a full sized rendering of one of the 4 thumbnails.  I only had a couple days to work on it, so I solicited the help of my personal tutor in order to get it done.  He was a big help getting all those piano keys blocked in as well as helping me to get the wood grain just right. He also did the music lines on the page. Up to this point my drawings have had only mid values without much of a value range, so on this one I really concentrated on getting the full value rendering which effected my subject choice.  There is a lot of contrast with black and white piano keys!!  It turned out pretty good although the pictures here aren't the best.  I was really happy with it and it did really well during the critiques in class.

including the thumbnails

Easter Bunnies

One of our friends has bunnies that are only a couple weeks old. On Sunday they invited us to come over and see them. The white one is the mom and the brown one is the dad.  Spring is here!!  

The Bunny Who Thinks He's an Alpaca

Lewey's been out of his pen a few times this spring and where does he go. . . across the street to the alpaca's.  He's made friends with one in particular, a shaggy dark brown surrey Afton calls Belle.  It has been very amusing not just for us, but all those who spot him hopping among the feet of the big girls. He acts just like he's one of the herd.  I'm not sure that he sees a difference at all.  He eats, sleeps and runs around with them all the time.  Between feelings of anxiety for his safety, it's actually hilarious to see him interact.  We have even seen him chasing them.  Yes . . . he chases them around . . .  and . . they actually run away from him. It has been quite the entertainment of late.  The girls will bring him home every once in a while to make sure he's ok, but he ends up right back over there as soon as he gets the chance.

**UPDATE:
The girls went to get him last night and Belle was chasing them around the pen.  I guess it's not as two sided as I thought. He has taken to herding out the shorter haired alpaca's  from this open area and doing it in a very determined and aggressive manner. We sat and watched him chase the other animals through the gate at a run!!  Hilarious! Something from out of funniest animal couples or something.

I Love Pastel Pencils

In drawing class last week we were introduced to gray scale paper and pastel pencils.  It has been so much fun using these two mediums.  The results are actually very impressive. It's just such a fun medium to play around with. I will definitely be doing more with this.

Sweet 16

Wednesday was our anniversary and the weather was actually much like it was that day in Manti 16 years ago!  Dennis put in half a day at work and then we went to the Provo temple. Its not as busy in the afternoon so it was nice.  We went to Olive Garden for an early dinner afterward. We had both a coupon and a gift card to use which was an extra present. We also decided to stop at the Provo mall Cineplex to see the newest version of Disney's Cinderella.  (Bonnie calls it the "human version", which she doesn't like.) It was very cute though and a lovely ending to a wonderful day!

Self Portrait

In class we were introduced to facial features.  Our homework. . . a self portrait.  The only requirements were that it include 2 eyes, a nose and a mouth. and it had to be a self portrait, so those features had to be mine.  I had all these abstract, Picasso - ish style plans, but that was the weekend I got sick . . . then Bonnie got sick, and it was my birthday.  So I went more traditional except that I did it as a Venician mask sort of portrait. Kind of like these.

 

So my final project looked like this. 

It was ok.  Not exactly how I pictured it in my mind . . . but I do get a chance to work on it a little more and make it a little better before the end of the semester.