Dali and Picasso Framed

Some of the most interesting of my papier mache projects lately has been the creation of frames for some of my pictures.

Yesterday I showed you two of my latest color pencil portrait sketches in a series depicting great artists.

Here are those same drawings mounted in my hand-made papier mache frames:

The above is a copy of my original drawing of Salvador Dali with the 3-D addition of a row of five papier mache eggs on a papier mache shelf addition to the papier mache frame. (Salvador was very fond of egg imagery.)

This is a large papier mache "copy" of my original drawing using a "mosaic" of color scraps from magazines instead of paint. The original drawing is eight and a half inches by eleven inches--this picture, mounted on cardboard, with frame, measures nineteen by twenty-four inches.

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Now in Eureka, CA

Now we live near the mudflats in Eureka, CA.

Don't we move around?

We like the changes of scenery and the changes of mood in different parts of the world and we think the best way to get to know the world for us is to move around. We like to stay in every new place  for a long enough time to walk all the paths until they are quite familiar, do some work, met some people and check out the plants and animals. Breathing the different air and hearing the different sounds are important to us too.

I have been working full time and part-time with the special education people in the Eureka public schools--not so much with the craft workshop aspect of the kid's educational program, as with their whole schooltime activities.

We have been here more than a year now and recently I have had more time to work on my own projects--mostly papier mache and colored pencil sketching.

Here are two of the drawings I have made:

Here is a sketch of Pablo Picasso--probably the most influential "fine" artist of the 20th century

...and a sketch of another great 20th century  artist, Salvador Dali.

I am enjoying studying the lives of these well-known aetists and it is quite interesting for me to sketch  their portraits from videos or photographs.

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