16 Second Story 2018

I'll update on this blog about my trip to  David Huntsberger's Junk Show variety show in a future post. Here's another collaborative 16 Second Story that wrapped up this April at the venue. I did the title card with the top heavy instruments sticking out of the Bloody Mary, and the concluding segment at the end at 3:18. I was racing to get this done right up to my flight and encountered some technical glitch with the timing as I was exporting the file to video. Fortunately, David gave it the editing tweaks it needed to fit.

Link to video here for smartphones

David kicked off a new cycle of 2019's future 16 Second Story, and I'll be animating the first segment. It has a sunrise, a dog (As a dogwalker I certainly have a choice of models there!) and deja vu. 

Edit (9/30/21) The host place for the 16 Second Stories was moved, so I relinked them on the other pages. I had a preview for the 2019 in this original post, but it was since completed so here it is. Mine is the very first 16 second clip. I featured a dog I used to walk and sit regularly, a sweet old girl named Elsie. Sadly she has since passed on, but I'm glad I got to make a tiny piece of art based on her, and share it with her people.

                                                                                          

link to video for smartphones here

art camp

I taught painting and drawing from observation to a group of five feisty 8 year old girls this week. We started by painting from a still life. Then the girls tackled a couple of self portraits in pencil and paint. All of them focused on their work much longer than the standard expectations of the attention span of an eight year old. I'm very proud of them.

                                             Rihanna:

 

 

                                                                                                      Skye:

 

Lindsay:

 

 

Mattie:

 

 

(She was determined to keep her eyes closed in every picture, saying that the eyes from other paintings (mine included) staring back at her freak her out. She's a bit of a clown. ;)

 

 Jules:

 Jules does not have her self portrait painting uploaded as she wasn't present during the entire time of the art camp to finish it. We'll make a date to complete it later.

a little post art camp party for the girls and their parents yesterday evening

 

These girls were work! But it was fun. I think they could say the same about their experience. We will likely try another week long camp next month.