Things a Come'n

I am in the process of submitting a grant proposal for the summer of 2013.  I have 7 to 10 portraits that I have started doing research, interviews, figure studies, and sketches for.   *fingers crossed*  & more details soon!   I'll be sharing more about this series and in-progress sketches and works on this blog. 

But for now!  some better photos of older work I've done- my Dream Triptych from 2012. 

Rebeka and I have been accepted into the Indiana University Bloomington Women and Gender Studies Conference!  We will be showing a slide of the documentation of our pregnant nude sculpture.  The slide will show the construction and deconstruction, and we will be displaying the final sculptural element of the babies on the womb pillow.

This semester I have been taking an anatomy class and am excited to share some pieces that I've been working on for that course.   We have been studying the human body from skeleton and outward to muscle structure and skin.   I'm loving it!  I can feel myself becoming more comfortable with shading and organic lines.  

At home I've been experimenting with different media and stains in attempt to create more of a dimensional feel to my work.   I'm attempting to polish and expand on my previous experiments. 

Today Rebeka and I will be finishing up our 2nd collaborative piece, and I will add photos on here very soon!  Also we are jumping into our 3rd collaboration (my favorite concept by far!). 

Ben took over Traughber Scouts the other day and started working on a mini environment with the children.  I have a large wooden table that they will eventually take over and create a small world of their own.  He started by showing them how to make a log cabin.   Milo was truly focused, and Parker did wonderfully letting her brother take his turn.  

Ben then took them outside the following week, and they searched the neighborhood for fallen limbs.  They built their own fort in the backyard!  I have to get photos of it soon.  This spring/summer we are going to build them a clubhouse and let them take charge of the design and material.