From one kind of art to another

Last week, I erased Judy Moody from the whiteboard at the library to make way for the announcement of the next after school movie, Spooky Buddies:

My doggy doodles could use some work . . .

My whiteboard doodles don't usually last long at the library, because lots of kids think dragging their fingers through dry erase marker drawings is fun. Once again, though, the kids left the whiteboard (mostly) alone. (I don't count one finger smear through some of the lettering as a significant disturbance. And the little spider didn't make it, but I know anything that I draw that low on the board won't be there for long.) I was very, very surprised.

Post-Spooky Buddies, it was time for a harvest/Halloween doodle that can be easily converted from a Halloween display to generic autumn decor:

I'm keeping the bat for as long as the rest of the library staff and the eraser-kids let me.

As for the more permanent art I create, I spent a couple hours photographing paintings with some friends last week. I'm not a great photographer, and I barely know how to use Photoshop, so one of my graphic design/photography friends was gracious enough to help me and another painter take some pictures. We took the pictures outside, because sunlight yields the most true-to-life results. A passerby asked us if we were taking pictures of a board. After we explained that it was a painting, he said, "There's a whole sky out here. Why aren't you taking pictures of that?"

We weren't taking pictures of the sky because entries are due soon for a big state invitational. Right after I finish this post, I am going to finish revising my Artist's Statement for the application, and then I will send it off. And I really, really want to get in.

Here are some of my pretties; I may have posted a picture of the first one another time, but if I did, I know the photo didn't look this good:

Frost-fruit; 3x3, acrylic on hardboard

Here's the painting I talked about revising earlier. Less turned out to be more in this piece. Also, when I showed it to my painting prof and another painter, they pointed out that there are not one, but two fives in the piece. And I did not purposely make either of them. (One is in the top right corner; the other is smaller and more difficult to see on a photo than in person . . .)

The Fifth Reproach; 3x3, acrylic on hardboard

Speaking of art projects, good luck to everyone participating in NaNoWriMo this year! (I'm not . . .) May you generate many fun ideas!